Feeling like something is seriously wrong (Anyone else?)

[Kaede]

Is there someone else on here who just has a feeling of there something being generally seriously wrong with their health and like you have lost the ability to distinguish when you are actually feeling well instead of focusing on specific symptoms/illness?

I can only pinpoint that it's like there is something wrong with my upper body, my legs strangely feel okay, but otherwise I have terrible trouble explaining what exactly is bothering me.

[AnxietySuckss]

I feel like I have lung cancer, throat cancer, stomach/pancreatic cancer that has spread to my lungs, I feel like I have a tumour on my spine that is pushing against my throat causing me to feel wheezy/not being able to get a deep breath. So yeah I'd say I'm feeling that way, lol.

If you can't pinpoint anything then please do not worry. If you can breathe fine, eat fine, all your senses work, relax. It's way easier sais than done though undortunately. Part of health anxiety is thinking there is something wrong with ya.

[Kaede]

Sorry to hear that you feel that way.

Yeah, you are right with that 2nd paragraph. But I kinda can't help but feel like I will be able to put this to rest if I were tested for every imaginable illness. Which I know is completely irrational.

I have lost some weight over the past 2 months and I'm already tiny as it is, I am tired all the time despite sleeping loads and even starting to lose my appetite a bit.

I guess my biggest mistake is expecting that I will lie down to sleep and wake up the next day and all of this will be gone. I know I should actually start doing something about it myself.

I got an appointment with a psychologist but it's more than a month away.

Thanks heavens for my mum who has been an absolute saint throughout this and is trying to motivate me to do something about it rather than just feel sorry for myself.

[SLA]

Feeling like "something is wrong" is a hallmark of anxiety.

Just because you "feel like" something is wrong, it doesn't mean there is. Far from it.

It's just a stressed and fearful mind.

[Kaede]

I know, SLA.

I just wish that I could truly convince myself of that.

[SLA]

Don't event try to. Just roll with it. Do other things...

[Kaede]

I'm trying to. It just seems like I can't escape these thoughts/feelings no matter what I do. Sleep is the only real remedy at the moment.

Still, I am going to try to cut on it as I can't use it as an escape. And I need to keep trying to do stuff and hopefully with time it will get better.

[unsure_about_this]

Yes all the time, testicle cancer cant stop exam my testicles, bowel cancer, my poop,

I am scared I got something serious wrong with me, even though because the gp felt a lump round my testicle earlier this year and was referred to see a specialist and all what the ultrasound turned out to be was some cysts,

For me it just not get easier I worry, it okay people telling me to think postive you got to rule out the worst first 100% of the time, and if the GP is unsure you should not be taking any chances

You got to rule out the worst first what it could be instead of working the other way round.


You got to think the worst first, I tried CBT and that was a joke trying to think differently

[SLA]

I'm trying to. It just seems like I can't escape these thoughts/feelings no matter what I do. Sleep is the only real remedy at the moment.

Still, I am going to try to cut on it as I can't use it as an escape. And I need to keep trying to do stuff and hopefully with time it will get better.

There is no escape, that is the point. We will always have fearful thoughts. Every single one of us.

What separates anxiety sufferers from "normal" people is how we react to them.

Stop trying to fight it...

[zippy]

Yes me.

[Kaede]

There is no escape, that is the point. We will always have fearful thoughts. Every single one of us.

What separates anxiety sufferers from "normal" people is how we react to them.

Stop trying to fight it...

I drank a lot of wine and feel a-okay, so it should be a clear enough sign that everything is a-okay, so I should stop worrying.

But I suppise it will be harder to convince myself tomorrow. I suppose that I just need to look at this thread.

But I don't want to become an alcoholic because of this, I have too much bad experience with alcoholism for that.

[aaronrh76]

Yes, I feel like I have lung cancer half the time. I have a persistent cough that my doc has told me was from allergies, I live in Austin, TX where allergies are year round so makes sense, and I also have IBS so I have nonstop diahrea a lot, my chest hurts from acid reflux, perhaps GERD I don't know, and now my legs, arms, armpits and sometimes breasts have a slight burning feeling which I have no clue what that's about, probably because I am now 260 and stopped excercising so sitting around on the cpu all day has screwed my circulation up. I am starting to become more active now that school is out, gonna start watching what I eat, so hopefully that will help with my weight and acid reflux/IBS. But even though most of my symptoms can be explained by rationality it is hard to get that nagging feeling away from the back of your mind. I did take a break from lung cancer fear for a little while to worry that I had tape worms, but apparently when you take a lot of Metamucil it makes your poop look weird, so when I stopped it went back to normal phew no tap worms back to lung cancer. Then before Lung cancer it was rabies. Yes I had the series done to me. Funny thing was I was never an anxious person before in my life, never. Then out of the blue, got bit by a dog, which was just a slight flesh wound, and now I am anxious about every pain, every slight discomfort.

[Kaede]

Thanks for the replies, guys.

But all of you still seem to be mentioning specific illnesses and changing between those some of the time.

What I meant is more of a general unwell feeling without a specific illness in mind.