mockingbirdsing
18-08-09, 14:16
Hi there everyone, just a little post to introduce myself.
My name is Katie, I'm 21 years old and I believe I suffer from chronic health anxiety and OCD. Or at least I hope that's all it is and not some of the things I convince myself I have!
To cut several long storoies short, I have looked at this forum for quite a while but suddenly feel like I want to speak out. You lot on here have been a lifeline at times because sometimes I'm going out of my mind.
I have just read a post about being lightheaded/dizzy. Currently I am/have been convinced I have a brain tumor and the thought has been there for a while. I have a pain in my right temple which is short and sharp and am feeling lightheaded and almost as if things are unreal, like I'm in a dream or things are moving around me when i'm not. I feel as if the world is moving, I'm not dizzy because the room doesn't spin but I just feel as if the room is moving sometimes for a split second. It's very disturbing and I have been feelin this everyday for two weeks. Ever since in fact I read that it is the symprom of an acoustic neuroma brain tumor. I don't have very good balance either, i don't fall over but i'm constantly trying to stand on one leg and close my eyes etc just to check for more symptoms. A lot of the time I think I force them on myself but my rationality goes out of the window and the line of logic in my head is blurred. I cannot just sit back and think 'it is nothing but anxiety, chill out!' because I think to myself 'well if you don't worry it will come back and bite you in the arse'.
I have been convinced I have MS, a brain tumor, Cervical cancer and HIV. None have really left me and I feel emotionally a bit of a wreck. I was on Cipralex for six months but the anxiety is coming back now that I suddenly feel light headed and dizzy but not dizzy.
Can anyone tell me if they feel any of this? I just don't know what to do sometimes. I worry that if I concentrate too much on curing my anxiety i will find out that i was being too blase and that it isn't anxiety at all but actually something serious that is killing me and given that I wasted so much time not worrying and thinking it's all nothing i will have found things out too late!
I saw the doctor last week, he said there were no signs of a brain tumor but I didn't tell him about the lightheadedness/dizziness I was feeling. Now i'm going again at the end f this week because I have had the thought that I have skin cancer and it has spread to my brain.
Thanks to everyone, it is nice to meet/speak to you and I hope, despite your anxieties, you are all feeling well.
Katie xx
My name is Katie, I'm 21 years old and I believe I suffer from chronic health anxiety and OCD. Or at least I hope that's all it is and not some of the things I convince myself I have!
To cut several long storoies short, I have looked at this forum for quite a while but suddenly feel like I want to speak out. You lot on here have been a lifeline at times because sometimes I'm going out of my mind.
I have just read a post about being lightheaded/dizzy. Currently I am/have been convinced I have a brain tumor and the thought has been there for a while. I have a pain in my right temple which is short and sharp and am feeling lightheaded and almost as if things are unreal, like I'm in a dream or things are moving around me when i'm not. I feel as if the world is moving, I'm not dizzy because the room doesn't spin but I just feel as if the room is moving sometimes for a split second. It's very disturbing and I have been feelin this everyday for two weeks. Ever since in fact I read that it is the symprom of an acoustic neuroma brain tumor. I don't have very good balance either, i don't fall over but i'm constantly trying to stand on one leg and close my eyes etc just to check for more symptoms. A lot of the time I think I force them on myself but my rationality goes out of the window and the line of logic in my head is blurred. I cannot just sit back and think 'it is nothing but anxiety, chill out!' because I think to myself 'well if you don't worry it will come back and bite you in the arse'.
I have been convinced I have MS, a brain tumor, Cervical cancer and HIV. None have really left me and I feel emotionally a bit of a wreck. I was on Cipralex for six months but the anxiety is coming back now that I suddenly feel light headed and dizzy but not dizzy.
Can anyone tell me if they feel any of this? I just don't know what to do sometimes. I worry that if I concentrate too much on curing my anxiety i will find out that i was being too blase and that it isn't anxiety at all but actually something serious that is killing me and given that I wasted so much time not worrying and thinking it's all nothing i will have found things out too late!
I saw the doctor last week, he said there were no signs of a brain tumor but I didn't tell him about the lightheadedness/dizziness I was feeling. Now i'm going again at the end f this week because I have had the thought that I have skin cancer and it has spread to my brain.
Thanks to everyone, it is nice to meet/speak to you and I hope, despite your anxieties, you are all feeling well.
Katie xx