paranoidhannah
20-01-18, 11:54
Hi all, I’m new to this site but I am getting so paranoid and genuinely upset about the situation.
I’m a 19 year old girl, healthy in most departments apart from mental health issues (BPD & OCD which shows itself as health anxiety lol typical that I’m going to be on here) anyway, since December 2016 I started getting migraines with aura, however most the time I would not get a headache. I went to the doctor straight away after my first attack and she just sent me in for some eye tests. They were extremely frequent but within 2 months they had calmed down a whole lot. I’m on sertraline and I’ve noticed since taking that they have only appeared around my “time of the month” or if I stop taking my medications.
However since August last year every now and then I will get this awful burning sensation in my left shoulder which either goes up to my head and face (no weakness just discomfort) or down my arm. I have really bad tension in my shoulders but can’t help but think it’s down to a brain tumour. I have other symptoms too, like occasional weakness on one side for a few minutes (which isn’t pins and needles related) but that has only happened about twice. I drive myself insane looking through “shocking stories” of brain tumour discoveries and cannot shake this fear. The burning sensation is only in my left shoulder/left side of face/left arm. I want to speak to my family but my grandad has just been diagnosed with a brain tumour himself so I don’t want my family thinking I’m “attention seeking”.
Any support or advice would be amazing!!!!
I’m a 19 year old girl, healthy in most departments apart from mental health issues (BPD & OCD which shows itself as health anxiety lol typical that I’m going to be on here) anyway, since December 2016 I started getting migraines with aura, however most the time I would not get a headache. I went to the doctor straight away after my first attack and she just sent me in for some eye tests. They were extremely frequent but within 2 months they had calmed down a whole lot. I’m on sertraline and I’ve noticed since taking that they have only appeared around my “time of the month” or if I stop taking my medications.
However since August last year every now and then I will get this awful burning sensation in my left shoulder which either goes up to my head and face (no weakness just discomfort) or down my arm. I have really bad tension in my shoulders but can’t help but think it’s down to a brain tumour. I have other symptoms too, like occasional weakness on one side for a few minutes (which isn’t pins and needles related) but that has only happened about twice. I drive myself insane looking through “shocking stories” of brain tumour discoveries and cannot shake this fear. The burning sensation is only in my left shoulder/left side of face/left arm. I want to speak to my family but my grandad has just been diagnosed with a brain tumour himself so I don’t want my family thinking I’m “attention seeking”.
Any support or advice would be amazing!!!!