Beefg
03-12-15, 09:54
This is the first time I've posted on here, but have spent hours and hours reading through all your posts. So firstly can i thank this website and everyone using it for reassuring me whenever I've had a didferent problem or symptom, it helps to read that loads of you have had the same.
I've suffered from health anxiety for about 7 months now, but this month it has got a lot worse. I'm 22 and female.
My main problem is I'm absolutely convinced I have a brain tumour (along with a couple other things) I get headaches most days (not particularly severe ones) sharp pains in my head quite often, dizziness, a very stiff neck, lately I feel like my limbs are weak but still aren't sure if I'm imagining that or not. And sometimes weird vision. I went for an eye test two weeks ago and found that need glasses for distance but nothing major. But then the optician did the looking in the backs of my eyes thing, and obviously after reading up on brain tumours every day I know that this is where they can see if there is pressure or swelling etc. He said to me afterwards 'one of your optic nerves is slightly different to your other has an optician told you this before?' Seen as I have probably only had 2 eye tests my whole life when I was younger I can't remember at all and neither can my mum. He said it was fine and to just come back in 6 months to see if there's any changes. I really want to know if anyone has had this said to them at an eye exam before because as you can imagine this has made me worried sick and positive it's a tumour :( Ive asked loads of people about it and some think it's strange and others seem to think it's fine. I can't stop thinking about it! I've been to the doctors twice about headaches but both times they haven't seemed concerned.
Help :(
I've suffered from health anxiety for about 7 months now, but this month it has got a lot worse. I'm 22 and female.
My main problem is I'm absolutely convinced I have a brain tumour (along with a couple other things) I get headaches most days (not particularly severe ones) sharp pains in my head quite often, dizziness, a very stiff neck, lately I feel like my limbs are weak but still aren't sure if I'm imagining that or not. And sometimes weird vision. I went for an eye test two weeks ago and found that need glasses for distance but nothing major. But then the optician did the looking in the backs of my eyes thing, and obviously after reading up on brain tumours every day I know that this is where they can see if there is pressure or swelling etc. He said to me afterwards 'one of your optic nerves is slightly different to your other has an optician told you this before?' Seen as I have probably only had 2 eye tests my whole life when I was younger I can't remember at all and neither can my mum. He said it was fine and to just come back in 6 months to see if there's any changes. I really want to know if anyone has had this said to them at an eye exam before because as you can imagine this has made me worried sick and positive it's a tumour :( Ive asked loads of people about it and some think it's strange and others seem to think it's fine. I can't stop thinking about it! I've been to the doctors twice about headaches but both times they haven't seemed concerned.
Help :(