Neuroticgal
14-12-11, 07:12
Hi all, I am new to this site. I spent a while reading through before deciding to join and now my next step my first post.
I have been labelled in the past as a hypochondriac but it's only in recent months that it has began taking over my life and I now realise it could be health anxiety. I am on citalopram for depression and also have OCD I have had therapy for these.
It is now a constant worry about my health and others that bothers me. I have recently and am now suffering with a bad leg I will try to elaborate.
I have a constant ache or feeling that I need to stretch my left leg, I get shooting pains around my knee and feel discomfort there sonetimes like a pressure. I get tingling in my leg and what feels like pain in the bones.
Unfortunately with my OCD comes an obsession to google and I have scared myself and now thinking I should get an X-ray done. My right leg is fine I occasionally get pains in it but nothing like the constant ache of my left leg.
I read about muscle tension but this don't seem to ease even when I relax, when I do distract myself if I get a shooting pain I begin to worry again.
Anyway that is my introduction I hope some of you can help and I hope I can help some of you too
Neuroticgal x
I have been labelled in the past as a hypochondriac but it's only in recent months that it has began taking over my life and I now realise it could be health anxiety. I am on citalopram for depression and also have OCD I have had therapy for these.
It is now a constant worry about my health and others that bothers me. I have recently and am now suffering with a bad leg I will try to elaborate.
I have a constant ache or feeling that I need to stretch my left leg, I get shooting pains around my knee and feel discomfort there sonetimes like a pressure. I get tingling in my leg and what feels like pain in the bones.
Unfortunately with my OCD comes an obsession to google and I have scared myself and now thinking I should get an X-ray done. My right leg is fine I occasionally get pains in it but nothing like the constant ache of my left leg.
I read about muscle tension but this don't seem to ease even when I relax, when I do distract myself if I get a shooting pain I begin to worry again.
Anyway that is my introduction I hope some of you can help and I hope I can help some of you too
Neuroticgal x