Generalized Anxiety

[MBJ27292]

I have had anxiety since I was 16 years old. I am now 27 years old. About 4 months ago I started having really bad anxiety. I worry all the time about my health. I have been to the doctor about 7 times so far. I had a physical which came back normal but I still worry about my health. I always think I have a brain tumor. I got laid off of my job about 3 months ago. Since then my anxiety has been really bad. I am always at home now and I think a lot. When I do leave to go somewhere I am a nervous wreck. I stay focused on my body and different feelings and symptoms my body is producing. I have had 2 neurological exams at the doctor and 1 at the emergency room. All came back normal. If I could just get the brain tumor thing out of my mind I would be a lot better.
Anybody else feel this way?

[MClp13]

I can relate 1000% To all the Posts and Im still battling with these Issues and I turn 24 next month. Im almost banned from the local ER's for stressing over having HIV ( Happened 2 years ago), Went to the psychiatric place for 3 days to be checked for everything under the sun and get a scan of my brain and I was diagnosed with good health. Lost alotta weight recently and spun back into making health issues again. Over the 2 year span of me not having super high anxiety ( still had a little) I worked very had at a job so I wouldnt concentrate on health issues, I worked out hard in the gym ( to not worry about people causing physical confrontation) and most importantly I did daily pray and meditation ( maybe twice a day for each). These methods helped alotta because they seemed to handle the problem on all 3 levels (Spiritual, Mental and Physical). Im planning to restart this process due to its past success. This might also help someone else. I know we can beat this thing. Im going to continue to battle with it till I can come on here with full prove strategy to share with everyone

**TRUE STORY** On a Side note within those 2 years I met my now current Wife who has a homosexual brother who has had HIV for 5 years now. I lived with them for 8 of those months relatively fear free( except when I saw a band-aid on him). She lived with him for 5 years and never once thought about play fighting with him, hugging him or anything. God works in mysterious ways. I was forced to look that specific worry directly in the face. So LOVE may also be a great remedy but of course GOD is LOVE -=)

[LMW29]

I can relate to your post 100%!  I am also a hypochandriac (sp?)  In fact, Back in 2005, after a co-worker I had never really worked with, died of a brain tumor at age 27 I totally freaked out and thought I had one too!  I started feeling tingly in my face and having really bad headaches. I convinced myself I was dying too. I even went and had an MRI done and saw 2 neurologists!!  

There was also a time when I was worried I had HIV but there was no way I could have contracted it. I watched a movie about it and became convinced that somehow I had it too.  Had the tests done and they were negative.  

Now I am dealing with a dental filling gone wrong and have a numb tongue. I went online and started freaking out. Had panic attacks, you name it!  Went to the oral surgoen yesterday and he ran some tests and told me everything looked good an I should regain feeling in 4-5 weeks.  Last night I had my first restful sleep since the incident last week.  What a nightmare!

So basically what I am saying is- you are  not alone. I too lost my job in October. Thankfully I found another one but I work from  home which gives my mind A LOT of time to wander and worry. I think it would be better if I was out and about and enjoying life so I wasn't constantly at the computer looking up symptoms.

I would see if you could get on some meds to help with that. It will make a big difference.  Hang in there and try not to stress. (I know I know- I need to listen to my own advice here too)  We are here if you need to talk though.

LMW

[MBJ27292]

My doctor agrees too that if I had a job that my anxiety would be a lot better. Now I just have to get it through my head that this is all anxiety and there is nothing wrong with me that I am healthy 27 year old.

[Ness_is_a_mess]

Yes, I used to obsessively worry about my health (sometimes I still do) but I try my hardest to replace all negative thoughts with positive ones.  Anxiety is tough to live with but why waste good time and health worrying about illnesses that ar probably not even there when you could be having fun?  Thats the way that I look at it now.  Sometimes,  I still worry.  The worrying comes and goes.

The tumor thing was a HUGE concern when I had these odd twitches in my head. I thought that I had a tumor and would die from it.  I did an MRI and found out that I was in near perfect shape! (I just have really bad sinuses which was detected in the MRI)  Those twitches stemmed from my anxieties.  

Dont worry. You will be okay...have you ever considered meds to relax you???

[bosnianworrier]

I had that too and its called hypochrondia caused by anxiety.

[Caveman24]

I also think that is part of the problem your just sitting around thinking about your body that will make your anxiety 100 times worse. You need to get out and have some fun and put all those worries aside. Also trust your doctors you are fine and tell yourself that when your mind starts to bug you. I do the same thing I feel a pain And I immediatly start to over think it and I have to remind myself I am fine there is nothing wrong and the doctors have proved it to me. So get out there and find yourself (I know easier said than done) it is possible. Good Luck keep us posted

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

have you had a mri yet that would show you theres nothing there and you can see it for self?  its really hard when you get into health anxiety am having some my self with my heart i know its good but dr doing a stress/nuclear terst tomorrow and it has freaked me out ,but i will be much better after its over .   we all tend to get anxiety when we think something is wrong in our body we want to live a long life with no problems , funny thing is all the anxiety of my body was in my head and its all turned out good. so try and worry less about your health, because it only makes worse when you do. we are here if you need to talk sorry about job, that will put you under stress i know.