Health Anxiety :: Obsessed With Checking Every Part Of My Body
May 22, 2016
I have health anxiety and it is literally ruining my life! I am obsessed with checking every part of me to find changes and when I do find something it's intense fear and panic like impending doom. I can't remember the last time I woke up and felt like I wasn't unwell. I am on a counsellor waiting list just don't know what to do in the meantime. Anyone else suffer this bad? Please only genuine sufferers reply as this is embarrassing enough as it is. I have never told anyone about my real problems with fear of being ridiculed.
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I've suffered from severe anxiety for about six months now. It started with headaches and fatigue, then I started getting panic attacks a couple of months later and now I am obsessed with my health and when I might die.
Today, for example, I woke up with a heavy right leg and also pain in my thigh and calf. My first thought was blood clot and now I've wasted another whole day worrying about it. This happens all the time to the point where I've become agoraphobic and find it very difficult to continue with work and any activities I used to enjoy.
I've had six sessions of CBT so far and I'm not finding it great to be honest. I'm just so so tired of constantly being aware of my mortality and scanning my body for symptoms 24/7. Even when I'm out, like last night when I went to a comedy gig, the whole night I was scanning my body checking everything was ok and preparing to make a quick escape if necessary.
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I'm 23 yo with pretty bad OCD/anxiety and a whole lot of hypochondria. It's getting out of control. I've been obsessed with my heart for weeks now because it's always beating fast. And then of course I'll get the chest pain. And then I'll get pains in my arms and what I think are pains in my jaw which then makes me freakout and think I'm having a heart attack.... At 23 years old.
I've had a complete blood count test done to check my thyroid (mom has issues with hers) and everything came back perfect my cholesterol my triglycerides everything. Blood pressure is always perfect I eat healthy I've never smoked I could lose a good 5 lbs but I'm not overweight etc. I've had two ekgs done a chest X-ray but everyday I'm still convinced I'm going to have a heart attack or something because the aches and pains are still there. I'm starting to go crazy. I've been to the ER like 3 times this past week and have seen my regular doctor. I keep freaking myself because I tell myself "oh but you haven't seen a cardiologist". It's driving everyone around me insane and it's making it hard for me to be the mother and wife I was before all of this stuff started
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I'm a 27 year old male with no serious issues in my medical history. A few weeks ago, I woke up with a pain in the upper right part of my jaw that hurt when I opened my mouth too wide or moved it from side to side. The next day, it seemed to be fine. A couple days later, the pain was back, and has stuck around. It doesn't hurt when my jaw is in a neutral position or even really when I eat. The pain is high in the jaw, kind of by my ear. I THINK it has gotten better over the last couple days; I don't seem to have any pain opening my mouth wide (just the side to side movement, etc), though it's possible that this is just wishful thinking and that maybe I'm just avoiding painful movements.
I don't think I grind my teeth, but I do have anxiety and perhaps clench my jaw sometimes without realizing it? I'm not sure, but I've been thinking of it as a TMJ-related problem. Only recently have I considered that maybe it's a wisdom tooth that needs to be removed. I know the only way to truly figure this out would be to get an in-person diagnosis from a medical professional, but I have very bare-bones insurance and limited funds to cover costs. As I understand TMDs often go away on their own, though, if it seems more like that than a wisdom tooth, I'd just as soon wait and see.
The pain isn't having a concrete impact on my life right now -- I'm eating and speaking without any problems. It's just frustrating and always in the back of my mind. There are some clicking/grinding sounds sometimes when I move my mouth, which leads me to think it is related to the TMJ. I also have heard that the pain relating to a wisdom tooth is pretty intense -- really a "you know it when you have it" kind of thing.
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I had right part of my thyroid removed last year due to the tumor. I didn't get any treatment, doctors were saying that everything is ok, just need to do TSH tests every few months.
During this year I had loads of strange symptoms like hair lose, weight gain, sleeplessness, late periods, itchy and dry skin, cold hands and feet etc. Doctors were saying it's stress, so when I was in Poland for holiday I paid to see specialists: endocrinologist and gynecologist,
I've done TSH test and it came out 5,3.
Endocrinologist said even if it didn't reach the maximum (5.5) my thyroid is on the border of efficiency and I need to start the treatment. He said that healthy person has TSH level between 1 and 1.5. He diagnosed Hashimoto and underactive thyroid.
I am on Euthyrox 50, checked TSH after 2 weeks and it was 2,74, but GP (in England) said that IT'S NORMAL. They were saying it when I was telling them about the symptomes I had and how did I feel.
I also got special diet to help me lose weight (I gained about 2 stones in one year without the reason).
I just want you to keep asking your GP's to send you to specialists, don't let them tell you it's all good when you apparently don't feel good. It's shame that you have to pay to get proper treatment because NHS is saving money and GP's don't want to refer people to hospital.
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I have been married almost 2 years.. When we first dated we had sex like crazy and both loved it, even with the guilt of people telling us we Weren't supposed to doing it unmarried. We felt guilty but still loved each other and loved sex. Then we got married, my husband started expecting sex and I started hating it. He doesn't expect it anymore, but is disappointed that we only do it like once or twice a month. He doesn't usually complain about it unless he's drunk. Then he gets kinda nasty about it. It just makes me hate sex with him even more. His touch makes my skin crawl. I HATE when he tries to kiss me, it makes me feel sick. I hardly touch him and I feel terrible because he thrives off of being touched. When we do have sex, I do it for him. I may orgasm, but just because my body is very aroused doesn't mean I am. I feel very disconnected. if my body wants it, Or orgasms, it feels like I am being betrayed by my own body. It's a terrible feeling. He thinks making me orgasm is a gift from him. Lol. But I keep telling him that just because my body enjoys it doesn't mean I enjoy it. I am torn. But he doesn't understand. He thinks I don't like him, since I'm withholding from him. So I encourage him to use his porn or magazines and toys by himself. I know it's wrong to encourage that, but if it gets him to leave me alone. Then it is a huge weight off my back. If I could have it my way, I would Never have sex. I would prolly still masterbate on my own, but never want intercourse. When we do have sex, I do it so he will be "content" for a while and feel satisfied. I feel guilty for not fulfilling my wifely duties better. During sex I have to have the lights off, or hide his face with a blanket. He has to be the one in charge and I have to think about anyone other than him. If I look at him or think about how I'm actually having sex with him again it ruins it and I have to get up and leave, because I can't go thru with it. He has never abused me, but I was sexually abused about 12 years ago, when I was 14. I don't really think about it. But I do feel disconnected from my body. When he touches any part of me, ( non sexually or sexually) I emotionally disconnect from that part of my body. When we have sex he says it's out of love, he tells me several times during sex that he loves me. I finally had to tell him not to say that while we are doing it. Because it makes me feel sick inside when he says it during sex. I think it's because to me, sex is not an act of love. It is something that makes the body feel good. For him it is an act of love. I can't seem to reconcile love with sex, to me they are 2 very distinct things that can never be combined. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? Some advice would be great. I feel like I'm drowning and there's no way out.
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I am a girl and I master bate a lot. I am starting to get a little bit scared I discovered masterbation by accident I was reading a book about puberty and a girl had sent in a question about touching herself the author explained masterbation and I thought what the cr*p I'll try it, and now it has been almost a year and I still masterbate at least twice a day I am still a virgin and I plan to stay that way until I am married. I have not had any desires to have sex just to masterbate I have used my fingers a dive stick pool toy a faucet in my bath tub and the jets in my parents tub I don't know what to do as far as I am concerned telling my parents is not an option I do have an older sister who I am really close with I might be able to tell her but I don't know/
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I was supposed to go back in September for another depo shot of last year but decided not to cause of all the anxiety depression body ache migraines and all the other side effects that came with it I had only one shot but before that shot I had the nexplanon any ways I still have not had a normal menstrual and every 2 to 3 months it feels as though I went and got the shot with a rush of so many side effects what is it that I can do to help remove the depo from my body.
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I've been taking these tablets for my anxiety for about a month now. i felt okay for a few days but went back to feeling rubbish again getting pains all over.my stomach seems to be bloated/swelled a lot and uncomfortable pains I get dizzy,have pains in my head,feel like I have no energy my muscles feel dead and ache.im always thinking there's something more serious wrong with me and worry very easily ....
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I have severe health anxiety that's been extremely bad for the past 4 months. Everytime I get a symptom it sends me into a panic. Once it goes away another one will appear and it starts all over. I have had muscle twitches everywhere hot and cold sensations on parts of arm and legs lasting seconds then go away and come back, tingling, panic attacks, feeling weak, lightheaded, muscle aches muscle tension numbness lasting only seconds. What are everyone's physical symptoms so maybe we can help each other feel better with this awful health anxiety.
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I've had anxiety for years and most of my family suffers from it. Recently I've been having pins and needles, burning feeling in my hands or feeling of numbness in my fingertips. When I wake up in the morning I feel very shaky inside and today I've felt my legs shaking throughout the day and feeling weak. I'm feeling so overwhelmed by it and convincing myself I have MS. It's literally preoccupies my mind throughout the day and I feel like I'm driving myself crazy checking for symptoms. I've been seeing therapist for years and I've been fine for years but for some reason it hit me hard again beginning of this year. Does anyone have similar symptoms?
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I have had some sort of anxiety for about 2 and a half years, and have experienced some awful physical symptoms.
Such as all over body twitching constantly, however for the last couple of months I have also had stiffness in my hands and feet and with joint pain and they constantly makes loud noise every time I move.
I'm a 28 year old male.
Has anyone have or had the same?
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For about a week now I've had burning sensation in my chest and upper stomach, not sure if it's muscle or inside my stomach. I guess it's muscle as its sensitive when my clothes brush against it. Has anyone else had this? Also the other day I had weird sensation in my foot like a buzzing feeling and it radiated up my leg and now I keep getting aches, pinches and pins and needles in my leg which makes me worry I have a blood clot or something even though everyone is telling me it's just anxiety, I'm having hard time sleeping because of it. Does anyone else experience these things? I hate how every pain I get I think I'm dying!!!
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This might be Anxiety, but I am wondering if nude body to body massage with the masseuse vagina rubbing on my penis outside (no penetration/intercourse) but defo fluid exchange, no condom and she put her finger in my anus, would that be a risk of HIV?
I have been to the same masseuses and I have done test and they all negative after but the last time I went for the massage is after my last negative test so I am just being very worry?
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I am 31 years old and had a vaginal sex with a girl of unknown HIV status using two condoms at a time. It was my first sexual encounter. I ejaculated twice and both times I used double condoms as I changed after first ejaculation. Both times the condoms seemed to be intact and I could see my semen inside the condom. It's almost over 28 days now and since the past couple of days I have developed almost all symptoms like pain in the back (I have a history of L3 compression and pelvic hairline fracture in 2007), cough with something in throat, body ache, night sweats, hot flashes throughout the body, had stiffness and pain in the back of neck, not visible swollen lymph nodes , had two time kind of diarrhea today.
Since the day after this exposure I was panic stricken with stress and anxiety and cannot sleep at all with insomnia like features and wake up at 2 or 3 or 4 am in the morning due to all sorts of weird thoughts.
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I know this question may have been asked before but I'm really stressed out and i need some reassurance. Yesterday I had an erotic massage that involved body to body. She applied some oil to her body and mine and sat in my lap with sine grinding for a minute or so. Her vagina touched my lower shaft and scrotum and it only lasted about a minute or so but there was no penetration. She was 35 and seemed healthy without any visible herpes symptoms. I know there is a risk of contracting herpes in this fashion but how high is this risk? I am terrified and not sure what to do.
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Like many others here, I am in rather deep despair. Although I have a girlfriend, I went to a body-to-body massage parlour. The masseuse rubbed her body over my body, using also her vagina (along my legs, etc.). I fingered her, mostly on the outside, but also briefly on the inside. Although our genitals did not touch (except perhaps incidentally very very briefly), I am very concerned about STDs. What are the risks? How long should I wait before having sex with my girlfriend? There was no oral, no visible sores, often a few seconds of digital penetration, but she certainly touched my penis after having been in contact with my finger that was inside of her (not immediately).
I would be very grateful for any advice/words from experience with this sort of thing. Has anyone here received an STD in this way?
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I was circumcised 12 years old i'm 15 now and I still have the swollen part under the tip, i feel no pain and it's no longer swollen, it is just like excess skin how do i deal with it?
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Has anyone looked into treating the autoimmune part of sarcoidosis, if so, what was the outcome?
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So I have this red/pink 'spot' on the upper part of my nose (just slightly below, for instance, where your glasses would sit on). It's not exactly a spot, other than it's circular and red, it's flat and painless. With some concealer you wouldn't see it as the skin is not raised. It's about 5 mm in diameter.
Now the issue is that is has been there for at least 3 months... and because my skin is very fair, this red/pink circular mark is very visible! It doesn't do anything, doesn't change shape or grow. It just sits there looking red and rosy.
Can you help shed light on what it is? How can I get rid of it? I've googled around for answers, possibilities are broken blood vessels/veins under the skin.
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I am still in the process of being diagnosed with RA but my doctor is very sure that it is, I've been referred to a rheumatologist. Is it normal to bruise easily as part of having RA? And for the bruises to last longer than normal?
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