Laaur_xo
01-12-16, 09:51
Hi all, so im new to this website and i suppose im here because im feeling a bit alone and looking for some reassurance.
So i will give a little history... I have had anxiety problems since i was 17 and im now 22. Ive had numerous amounts of CBT for my anxiety and it has helped and i do get out a lot now. But for the last 4 weeks, i have been 100% convinced i have a brain tumour.. my reasoning for this is because i have been having headaches that have gone all over my forehead and top of head and ive had a stiff/ achy neck as well.
So me being me, i have been on dr google and the first thing that seemed to pop up was brain tumour. At first, the only real symptoms i had based on the NHS and so on, was headaches and nausea, but the rational me, try to say well ive always had nausea as part of my anxiety anyway, so i have written that off. But then i started having vision problems and my mum suggested having an eye test, so having read about them, i was almost convinced that they were going to find a tumour.. they didnt.. but they did tell me that i am short sighted and now require glasses for distance, this has manifested, as i don't see how at my age, my vision suddenly has become worse, when i had no problems, say a month ago with seeing??
So ive spent the last 1/2 weeks reading about brain tumours online and now im focusing on my headaches seeming to be in one area all of sudden and thats on the top centre of my head. Ive read a load of stories about young people being misdiagnosed with headaches only to find out later that they have a brain tumour! This is terrifying me... my mum said to me i am actually living like i am dying!!
So i have already been to the opticians and i think they did a test for my peripheral vision? They had me look at a red dot and click a clicker, for the amount of green dots i saw around the screen, while staring at the red dot.. they said they have to do this, as i had complained of headaches and they said it checks for anything sinister... it came back normal. The optician also looked in my eyes with a light, everything came back normal, just short sighted.. glasses have helped with my distance, everything a lot clearer now.. but im not convinced the optician was thorough, as he didn't take a retinal image of my eye and i read that if you have a tumour, a shadow of some sort will show up on these images. I have also been to the doctors, who examined me, did neurological tests, strength of legs against his hand pushing, checking for numbness on face.. all normal... he too checked my eyes with the light thing, but im not convinced because he is newly qualified and he couldn't get the right setting on the light... :-( I asked for an MRI/CT and he said no as it didnt seem necessary. I must also add, that i have had rumbling in my ears too!!
I am at a loss.. im living and even saying to people that i will be dead before christmas, its ruining my life and my loved ones lives.
Help.. :-(
So i will give a little history... I have had anxiety problems since i was 17 and im now 22. Ive had numerous amounts of CBT for my anxiety and it has helped and i do get out a lot now. But for the last 4 weeks, i have been 100% convinced i have a brain tumour.. my reasoning for this is because i have been having headaches that have gone all over my forehead and top of head and ive had a stiff/ achy neck as well.
So me being me, i have been on dr google and the first thing that seemed to pop up was brain tumour. At first, the only real symptoms i had based on the NHS and so on, was headaches and nausea, but the rational me, try to say well ive always had nausea as part of my anxiety anyway, so i have written that off. But then i started having vision problems and my mum suggested having an eye test, so having read about them, i was almost convinced that they were going to find a tumour.. they didnt.. but they did tell me that i am short sighted and now require glasses for distance, this has manifested, as i don't see how at my age, my vision suddenly has become worse, when i had no problems, say a month ago with seeing??
So ive spent the last 1/2 weeks reading about brain tumours online and now im focusing on my headaches seeming to be in one area all of sudden and thats on the top centre of my head. Ive read a load of stories about young people being misdiagnosed with headaches only to find out later that they have a brain tumour! This is terrifying me... my mum said to me i am actually living like i am dying!!
So i have already been to the opticians and i think they did a test for my peripheral vision? They had me look at a red dot and click a clicker, for the amount of green dots i saw around the screen, while staring at the red dot.. they said they have to do this, as i had complained of headaches and they said it checks for anything sinister... it came back normal. The optician also looked in my eyes with a light, everything came back normal, just short sighted.. glasses have helped with my distance, everything a lot clearer now.. but im not convinced the optician was thorough, as he didn't take a retinal image of my eye and i read that if you have a tumour, a shadow of some sort will show up on these images. I have also been to the doctors, who examined me, did neurological tests, strength of legs against his hand pushing, checking for numbness on face.. all normal... he too checked my eyes with the light thing, but im not convinced because he is newly qualified and he couldn't get the right setting on the light... :-( I asked for an MRI/CT and he said no as it didnt seem necessary. I must also add, that i have had rumbling in my ears too!!
I am at a loss.. im living and even saying to people that i will be dead before christmas, its ruining my life and my loved ones lives.
Help.. :-(