MaryMac
23-11-11, 10:05
Hi everyone, this is my first post here sorry it's probably gonna be a long one! :) I've suffered from health anxiety most of my life along with general anxiety, panic attacks, emetophobia, agoraphobia. I've had so much therapy and for the past few years have been doing great, travelling, working and been very healthy.
However the past few weeks have been difficult for me. I had an abscessed tooth and I spent my time googling what can go wrong, if it spreads through your body etc and obviously I was very anxious. However I had the tooth out and it all seems fine, even though I was still worried about infection. Since then, my grandmother passed away and I've pretty much spent alot of time alone and started googling things. I had a bad cold and a sort of lingering cough, I looked up leukemia and it's symptoms and I honestly started getting them! Sore bones, itchy skin... this was a few days ago and I feel better now but I'm still waking up in the morning checking for swollen glands etc, thinking "do I have a temperature?"
I've been trying to drink more water and cut out caffeine, and today I woke up really thirsty and I'm thinkign "oh no is this also a symptom?!" I'm having trouble eating breakfast, like I'm going to choke on it.
I'm just terrified for some reason that I may have leukemia! :(
And advice would be great thanks.
However the past few weeks have been difficult for me. I had an abscessed tooth and I spent my time googling what can go wrong, if it spreads through your body etc and obviously I was very anxious. However I had the tooth out and it all seems fine, even though I was still worried about infection. Since then, my grandmother passed away and I've pretty much spent alot of time alone and started googling things. I had a bad cold and a sort of lingering cough, I looked up leukemia and it's symptoms and I honestly started getting them! Sore bones, itchy skin... this was a few days ago and I feel better now but I'm still waking up in the morning checking for swollen glands etc, thinking "do I have a temperature?"
I've been trying to drink more water and cut out caffeine, and today I woke up really thirsty and I'm thinkign "oh no is this also a symptom?!" I'm having trouble eating breakfast, like I'm going to choke on it.
I'm just terrified for some reason that I may have leukemia! :(
And advice would be great thanks.