JS1997
08-12-14, 03:08
Hey everyone,
I'm 17 years old and I pretty much diagnosed myself with health anxiety. I've been to the doctors about it and all she did was say I should get counselling but I can't right now.
Basically my problem is, I noticed a small hard lump on the roof of my mouth on November 2nd, I tried not to worry myself as people were telling me it may just be from where some food has scratched it. Well after three weeks it had still not gone and that's when the panic started kicking in properly. Luckily I had a dentist appointment around the same time I was really getting anxious. I asked the dentist to check it out and she said she couldn't see anything so it was nothing to worry about. I had to go back a week later for a filling and as it was still there I was still very anxious about it, I was hoping to get a second opinion from a different dentist but I had the same lady again. So after I asked her to check again and she said the same thing. I asked her if it could be cancer and she said she would be able to tell if it was. It is now 3am December 8th and I am sat up on my own feeling too anxious about this to sleep. I have had this lump for over two months now and the problem is I just don't trust this dentists opinion! I know this may sound rude but she looks very young, mid twenties or so and in my head I'm just thinking she doesn't have enough experience to know what it is. Has anyone else had a problem like this? I really don't know what to do because every single day, multiple times a day I touch it with my tongue and my head fills with horrible thoughts, my heart races and I get very hot. I try to distract myself to calm myself down but an hour or so later I'll just touch it again and it's just been that same cycle for a long time now. Any help, support or words of wisdom would be very much appreciated.
I'm 17 years old and I pretty much diagnosed myself with health anxiety. I've been to the doctors about it and all she did was say I should get counselling but I can't right now.
Basically my problem is, I noticed a small hard lump on the roof of my mouth on November 2nd, I tried not to worry myself as people were telling me it may just be from where some food has scratched it. Well after three weeks it had still not gone and that's when the panic started kicking in properly. Luckily I had a dentist appointment around the same time I was really getting anxious. I asked the dentist to check it out and she said she couldn't see anything so it was nothing to worry about. I had to go back a week later for a filling and as it was still there I was still very anxious about it, I was hoping to get a second opinion from a different dentist but I had the same lady again. So after I asked her to check again and she said the same thing. I asked her if it could be cancer and she said she would be able to tell if it was. It is now 3am December 8th and I am sat up on my own feeling too anxious about this to sleep. I have had this lump for over two months now and the problem is I just don't trust this dentists opinion! I know this may sound rude but she looks very young, mid twenties or so and in my head I'm just thinking she doesn't have enough experience to know what it is. Has anyone else had a problem like this? I really don't know what to do because every single day, multiple times a day I touch it with my tongue and my head fills with horrible thoughts, my heart races and I get very hot. I try to distract myself to calm myself down but an hour or so later I'll just touch it again and it's just been that same cycle for a long time now. Any help, support or words of wisdom would be very much appreciated.