Nocthur
04-04-16, 18:43
Sorry if I can't articulate myself very well. I find it hard to describe my symptoms.
The thing is, for about a motnh i've been suffering from pretty severe anxiety.
Now i've mostly calmed down but there is one thing that I can't get out of my head and that is my persistent fear of me having a brain tumor.
For about a week (give or take 1-2 days) I've had a couple of symptoms that just seem to match too well. For starters, my vision ranodmly get's somewhat worse. Like, I have this pressure on the upper and lower eyelid of my left eye that is there for around 80% of the day. Other than that i feal as if my left ear is full. Every time i swallow it makes this weird static sound. Then there is the fact that i can't seem to decide if my memory is fine or not. I can remember everything that i did today,yesterday and so on up to thursday of last week without any real effort but i find myself thinking that something is wrong with my short term memory. And finally, my sleep paterns can't seem to stay the same. Sometimes i sleep 6-7 hours sometimes suddenly 9,5-10 this has been going on for 2 weeks or so with 2 nightmares in between. It didn't start like this at all. around 4 weeks ago i had a lump in my throat that went away after a while. And i for some reason started to google every possible illness i could. After about a week my eyes started to get blurry at random times. that turned into them feeling heavy for some hours. After a week that ended and turned into the current one which is this feeling of them being swollen without them actually being swollen with the ranom vision worsening. Some symptoms only came after i googled an illnes. for example, i googled brain tumors saw that a potential symptom is X and suddenly i have X.
The basic gist of what i'm trying to say is, can all of this be caused by anxiety? My parents (am 20) think that I'm just imagining all of this and that there is nothing wrong with me. I just can't decide if this is anxiety or something else. It's gotten to the point where most of my day is me thinking about this and then wondering(being scared) as to why the day is already over. My perception of time seems flawed as well. For example, right now i can't believe that i've been awake for almost 12 hours. Apart from that the only relevant thing would be the fact that the area above my knees, well, not all of the tigh just the area right above the knee feels really weak and gets easily worn out when i move up stars i had no problems with 2 months ago. People tell me that the anxiety/fear is getting into the knees. this has been going on for a month.
All i want to know if i'm going crazy or if this is really just anxiety like my parents tell me.
The thing is, for about a motnh i've been suffering from pretty severe anxiety.
Now i've mostly calmed down but there is one thing that I can't get out of my head and that is my persistent fear of me having a brain tumor.
For about a week (give or take 1-2 days) I've had a couple of symptoms that just seem to match too well. For starters, my vision ranodmly get's somewhat worse. Like, I have this pressure on the upper and lower eyelid of my left eye that is there for around 80% of the day. Other than that i feal as if my left ear is full. Every time i swallow it makes this weird static sound. Then there is the fact that i can't seem to decide if my memory is fine or not. I can remember everything that i did today,yesterday and so on up to thursday of last week without any real effort but i find myself thinking that something is wrong with my short term memory. And finally, my sleep paterns can't seem to stay the same. Sometimes i sleep 6-7 hours sometimes suddenly 9,5-10 this has been going on for 2 weeks or so with 2 nightmares in between. It didn't start like this at all. around 4 weeks ago i had a lump in my throat that went away after a while. And i for some reason started to google every possible illness i could. After about a week my eyes started to get blurry at random times. that turned into them feeling heavy for some hours. After a week that ended and turned into the current one which is this feeling of them being swollen without them actually being swollen with the ranom vision worsening. Some symptoms only came after i googled an illnes. for example, i googled brain tumors saw that a potential symptom is X and suddenly i have X.
The basic gist of what i'm trying to say is, can all of this be caused by anxiety? My parents (am 20) think that I'm just imagining all of this and that there is nothing wrong with me. I just can't decide if this is anxiety or something else. It's gotten to the point where most of my day is me thinking about this and then wondering(being scared) as to why the day is already over. My perception of time seems flawed as well. For example, right now i can't believe that i've been awake for almost 12 hours. Apart from that the only relevant thing would be the fact that the area above my knees, well, not all of the tigh just the area right above the knee feels really weak and gets easily worn out when i move up stars i had no problems with 2 months ago. People tell me that the anxiety/fear is getting into the knees. this has been going on for a month.
All i want to know if i'm going crazy or if this is really just anxiety like my parents tell me.