WTW12
04-04-16, 14:33
Hi
I know I suffer from health anxiety as I am always thinking of the worst case scenario and never logical, whether it be about myself or partner, children etc. I straight away panic until told otherwise. Although it is a lot worse with myself.
I look online, which I know is the worst thing to do , see a bad problem and then it all escalates.
For around 3 months now I have had a 24/7 fear about a brain tumour. It started because I had headaches regularly which I have suffered with for a while, I also had brain fog and just wasn't there, this is when I searched online and seen brain tumour and things now have got way out of hand . My headaches have actually improved
I am not getting them everyday now, but I then started seeing lots of floaters, which I am still seeing. I then started concentrating on my speech and picked up everytime I said something wrong or stuttered and instantly panicked, feeling the way I am walking and if I bump into anything if I do thinking is it because I may have a brain tumour, neck pain, weird feeling in back of head, eye lid twitches, struggling to read/write listen to people all have followed in this time, I talk to someone feel bit better and try and be positive but then another symptom comes and knocks me back to start. The latest one is like a tingling/numbness in my forearms and fingers started for no reason last night, again this made me panic hugely thinking this is also linked.
My question is, can anxiety really cause all of these and is it possible to get so many symptoms which are linked to one thing? Like because I read about the symptoms I know that it causes many of these problems, so can I then start feeling tingling etc? It's really scary and I would love more than anything to find out its anxiety so I can try and work on it, I go see a neurologist in may because I have pushed my gp to refer me, I have had a eye test which was normal that was before my floaters came.
Thanks
I know I suffer from health anxiety as I am always thinking of the worst case scenario and never logical, whether it be about myself or partner, children etc. I straight away panic until told otherwise. Although it is a lot worse with myself.
I look online, which I know is the worst thing to do , see a bad problem and then it all escalates.
For around 3 months now I have had a 24/7 fear about a brain tumour. It started because I had headaches regularly which I have suffered with for a while, I also had brain fog and just wasn't there, this is when I searched online and seen brain tumour and things now have got way out of hand . My headaches have actually improved
I am not getting them everyday now, but I then started seeing lots of floaters, which I am still seeing. I then started concentrating on my speech and picked up everytime I said something wrong or stuttered and instantly panicked, feeling the way I am walking and if I bump into anything if I do thinking is it because I may have a brain tumour, neck pain, weird feeling in back of head, eye lid twitches, struggling to read/write listen to people all have followed in this time, I talk to someone feel bit better and try and be positive but then another symptom comes and knocks me back to start. The latest one is like a tingling/numbness in my forearms and fingers started for no reason last night, again this made me panic hugely thinking this is also linked.
My question is, can anxiety really cause all of these and is it possible to get so many symptoms which are linked to one thing? Like because I read about the symptoms I know that it causes many of these problems, so can I then start feeling tingling etc? It's really scary and I would love more than anything to find out its anxiety so I can try and work on it, I go see a neurologist in may because I have pushed my gp to refer me, I have had a eye test which was normal that was before my floaters came.
Thanks