Hypochondria and anxiety logic.

[Jon10]

Hi everyone, i hope you all are having a good day.

I had an appointment with my doctor last night and he offered me some very logical and constructive advice. I told him of my Hypochondrasis wih anxiety and how i know i have a life threatening illness. He said that symptoms such as dizziness, flushing, on/off chest pains, headaches, neasua, palpitations etc are insignificant in terms of termonal illness`. He said that doctors are trained to look out for the following... Lumps/swellings, Skin abnormalities i.e legions/bruising, bleeding into the skin, and bowell abnormalities, and severe long lasting persistant chronic pain is one specific location.

This chat really helped me as it made me look at my symptoms and realise that in actual fact they are all very minor and nothing to worry about. I have already noticed a difference in the way i feel.

I hope others can take the same from this logic.

Thanks

Jon

[mithras]

Amen. I think if i didnt have these forums to discuss all this...i would be way worse off than I already am.

[bip]

I know anxiety puts ourselfs down but we all work together hard and we can fight this anxiety together...

[Topher7]

I'm not telling anyone not to use medicine but if you don't like trying new meds you might want to look into fish oil and working out. I was feeling perfectly fine with no symptoms until I stopped taking it because I thought it might be messing with my system after a year or so. Things got worse. I really think it is a natural way to help. Might just be me.Working out always helps and I ignore the symptoms and feel better after.

[mithras]

Yeah, I feel with you guys. Mine is starting to take control of me. I can barley go through 5 minutes without thinking of my "terminal illness," I gets me down all the time, I cant eat right, sleep right ect. Its driving me insane!! Part of me is saying its anxiety, but sometimes my mind even tricks me into thinking that my symptoms of hypochondra are acutally an illness of some kind. Its messing with me! has anyone tried meditation? Does that seem to help? Any ideas, suggestions for coping with daily struggles? Hope you are all having a better day than I am!

[Topher7]

confused..where?

[bip]

The last post I read did he mean he convinced his self having a brain tumor but he doesn't!!!