megs18
18-06-15, 17:44
I am a 20 year old female who is pretty new to this community and health anxiety. Lately, I've been worried about my weight.
I've been skinny and tall my whole life. I am 5'7'' and usually weigh around 119-120 pounds, which I think is still slightly underweight. Anyways, I have been struggling with health anxiety for about 2 and a half months now and have had awful physical symptoms like fatigue, loss of appetite, numbness, vision problems, headaches, etc. For about 2 weeks, I simply did not have an appetite. I basically ate enough to survive because I just did not feel like eating at all. I don't know how much I weighed at this time because I didn't have a scale, but my mom hugged me and could tell I lost a lot of weight. The doctor thought I'd lost about 10 pounds since I was last there.
I got my appetite back about a month ago and have been eating much better and pretty normal, but still weight about 114 pounds and am having trouble gaining weight. Meanwhile, my physical symptoms are much better. Of course, health anxiety makes me worry it's cancer because weight loss is a symptom.
Has anyone else experienced this? Shouldn't my weight be back to normal after a month?
Also I don't really ever exercise.
I've been skinny and tall my whole life. I am 5'7'' and usually weigh around 119-120 pounds, which I think is still slightly underweight. Anyways, I have been struggling with health anxiety for about 2 and a half months now and have had awful physical symptoms like fatigue, loss of appetite, numbness, vision problems, headaches, etc. For about 2 weeks, I simply did not have an appetite. I basically ate enough to survive because I just did not feel like eating at all. I don't know how much I weighed at this time because I didn't have a scale, but my mom hugged me and could tell I lost a lot of weight. The doctor thought I'd lost about 10 pounds since I was last there.
I got my appetite back about a month ago and have been eating much better and pretty normal, but still weight about 114 pounds and am having trouble gaining weight. Meanwhile, my physical symptoms are much better. Of course, health anxiety makes me worry it's cancer because weight loss is a symptom.
Has anyone else experienced this? Shouldn't my weight be back to normal after a month?
Also I don't really ever exercise.