Fretful
12-01-12, 15:13
Please bear with me if this gets long: I think I need to set things out.
I know I am a worrier. Everything in the article about health anxiety in the article on this website applies (I fret, I see things in black and white, etc). I never used to - not sure why now except that I think my wine habit and moderate smoking make me fear that I will PAY ... and my worst fear is a disease that is ALL MY FAULT.
And yet I keep starting smoking again.....
Anyway, this is what I have - and I don't know whether I'm imagining links where there aren't any, fretting and imagining things, or actually missing something serious because I'm too scared to google OR go to the gp!
1) Continual little spots behind my ears which get sore (probably because I fiddle with them and keep checking them)
2) pain in shoulders, neck and sometimes chin (I do have dreadful posture and spend most of the day behind a laptop screen atm, but then think 'ah but surely that would have eased now, can't *just* be posture...')
3) Tingling/tight sensation up my face intermittently
4) A small white mark under my chin. I don't know if it's always been there because I didn't used to fiddle with my chin this much. It feels hard and small and looks exactly like a scar my brother has on his chin, but I honestly can't remember now whether I ever fell on my chin and hurt it enough to scar. I both want and don't want to google it. I think I am also thinking of the red mark/white mark thing for mouth cancer here and not sure whether it applies to chins or not.
I honestly don't know which kind of idiot I am - a worrying idiot, or the idiot who doesn't get checked and then DIES.
Halp?
---------- Post added at 12:31 ---------- Previous post was at 11:44 ----------
Oh and I'm a 33 year old woman who's pretty much always healthy in every other respect.
---------- Post added at 15:13 ---------- Previous post was at 12:31 ----------
58 views and no-one wants to tell me I might not be dying....! Eek :weep:
I know I am a worrier. Everything in the article about health anxiety in the article on this website applies (I fret, I see things in black and white, etc). I never used to - not sure why now except that I think my wine habit and moderate smoking make me fear that I will PAY ... and my worst fear is a disease that is ALL MY FAULT.
And yet I keep starting smoking again.....
Anyway, this is what I have - and I don't know whether I'm imagining links where there aren't any, fretting and imagining things, or actually missing something serious because I'm too scared to google OR go to the gp!
1) Continual little spots behind my ears which get sore (probably because I fiddle with them and keep checking them)
2) pain in shoulders, neck and sometimes chin (I do have dreadful posture and spend most of the day behind a laptop screen atm, but then think 'ah but surely that would have eased now, can't *just* be posture...')
3) Tingling/tight sensation up my face intermittently
4) A small white mark under my chin. I don't know if it's always been there because I didn't used to fiddle with my chin this much. It feels hard and small and looks exactly like a scar my brother has on his chin, but I honestly can't remember now whether I ever fell on my chin and hurt it enough to scar. I both want and don't want to google it. I think I am also thinking of the red mark/white mark thing for mouth cancer here and not sure whether it applies to chins or not.
I honestly don't know which kind of idiot I am - a worrying idiot, or the idiot who doesn't get checked and then DIES.
Halp?
---------- Post added at 12:31 ---------- Previous post was at 11:44 ----------
Oh and I'm a 33 year old woman who's pretty much always healthy in every other respect.
---------- Post added at 15:13 ---------- Previous post was at 12:31 ----------
58 views and no-one wants to tell me I might not be dying....! Eek :weep: