Ruby86
14-07-09, 21:51
Hi guys,
I mostly want to say thank you so much for this site :)
As I'm now begining to understand, I am suffering from health anxiety that has been getting slowly worse and worse over the last year or two... I have diagnosed myself with just about every disease under the sun, become more and more dependant on constant reassurance from my partner, and just been panicky and unable to sleep for months now, convinced that my death is imminent!
Things got really bad last night when I convinced myself that what was clearly a heat rash and a hangover was meningitis, had my first proper panic attack (I thought I was dying) and didn't sleep at all. I found this site today while googling pins and needles in my arms and reading through the health anxiety forum made me cry and laugh at loud.. some of the posts feel like I wrote them myself! I honestly didn't know anyone felt the same, I've never really spoken to anyone about it, and it's already helped me enormously to read about everyone's experiences. Have been having alot of muscle spasms and pins and needles and am nearly conivinced now that it's not swine flu/ms! And i'm resolving never to google symptoms again! So thankyou so much, this has helped alot already :D xxxx
I mostly want to say thank you so much for this site :)
As I'm now begining to understand, I am suffering from health anxiety that has been getting slowly worse and worse over the last year or two... I have diagnosed myself with just about every disease under the sun, become more and more dependant on constant reassurance from my partner, and just been panicky and unable to sleep for months now, convinced that my death is imminent!
Things got really bad last night when I convinced myself that what was clearly a heat rash and a hangover was meningitis, had my first proper panic attack (I thought I was dying) and didn't sleep at all. I found this site today while googling pins and needles in my arms and reading through the health anxiety forum made me cry and laugh at loud.. some of the posts feel like I wrote them myself! I honestly didn't know anyone felt the same, I've never really spoken to anyone about it, and it's already helped me enormously to read about everyone's experiences. Have been having alot of muscle spasms and pins and needles and am nearly conivinced now that it's not swine flu/ms! And i'm resolving never to google symptoms again! So thankyou so much, this has helped alot already :D xxxx