SonicTheHedgehog
06-06-22, 19:07
Hi everyone. Sorry to be annoying with an anxiety question and apparently a common one at that. I’ve never had covid as far as I know, but since January I’ve been getting the smell of cigarette smoke when its not actually there. Im 27 and have never had any health issues except health anxiety that started 3 years ago.
Cue googling like an idiot and I saw brain tumours and epilepsy. I started getting horrible feelings of being twitchy and sensitive and my tummy sinking, my head feeling numb and pressure and my facial features not feeling ‘right’ on my face as if my eye was wonky or something. I started worrying about simple partial seizures.
I’ve seen an ENT in May who gave me an MRI but I haven’t heard anything back yet, my follow up is later this month so I assume it might be OK? Though the NHS makes me nervous with its response times etc.
I now am thinking even if the MRI is OK, what if I need an EEG to test for epilepsy? Im scared of things escalating and having a full blown seizure and something bad happening. All day today my head has felt heavy and fuzzy and i smell the cigarette smell. Its been going ok for weeks. The only reassurance I have is that sometimes when I’m out of the house and fully engrossed in what Im doing I dont experience symptoms so maybe its anxiety. But im so scared and feel like I have no support as I have no one to talk to and I dont know whether to push my doctor or accept my results when I get them. I wake up everyday feeling so down and anxious because of this and feel I have nowhere to turn and can’t relax.
Cue googling like an idiot and I saw brain tumours and epilepsy. I started getting horrible feelings of being twitchy and sensitive and my tummy sinking, my head feeling numb and pressure and my facial features not feeling ‘right’ on my face as if my eye was wonky or something. I started worrying about simple partial seizures.
I’ve seen an ENT in May who gave me an MRI but I haven’t heard anything back yet, my follow up is later this month so I assume it might be OK? Though the NHS makes me nervous with its response times etc.
I now am thinking even if the MRI is OK, what if I need an EEG to test for epilepsy? Im scared of things escalating and having a full blown seizure and something bad happening. All day today my head has felt heavy and fuzzy and i smell the cigarette smell. Its been going ok for weeks. The only reassurance I have is that sometimes when I’m out of the house and fully engrossed in what Im doing I dont experience symptoms so maybe its anxiety. But im so scared and feel like I have no support as I have no one to talk to and I dont know whether to push my doctor or accept my results when I get them. I wake up everyday feeling so down and anxious because of this and feel I have nowhere to turn and can’t relax.