Peter_Scott
26-03-10, 13:34
I can truly say that I have had health anxiety ALL my life, I can distinctly remember spending a lot of my time sitting alone in the A&E department as a child. At about eight years old I was already convinced I was going to die of either an appendicitis or heart attack, my parents would not go with me as they felt I was putting it on. I would either visit the GP or A&E at least twice a week, and this went on until I was in my twenties.
The thing is my imagination for a better name could actually produce the symptoms needed. I had moles on my stomach which if I thought about them would itch and REALLY grow, even the doctors confirmed they where growing. Then I would find some other worry and hey presto the moles stopped growing. I could make the glands in my arm pits swell by just thinking about them doing it, again the doctors confirmed it. I have made lumps in my body grow, but then vanish when my mind was taken elsewhere. I have made my nose bleed by thinking my blood wasn't clotting, and bruises appear and vanish for no reason. All this for many many years, I was always surprised that I survived childhood lol A couple of years a ago I had a lump appear in my throat they wanted to biopsy, but then I started to worry about something else and when it came to do the biopsy there was nothing to biopsy, narda!
All I have been told is it could be a Somatoform disorder, are there any others here with HA that can relate to this extreme form of HA?
Peter
The thing is my imagination for a better name could actually produce the symptoms needed. I had moles on my stomach which if I thought about them would itch and REALLY grow, even the doctors confirmed they where growing. Then I would find some other worry and hey presto the moles stopped growing. I could make the glands in my arm pits swell by just thinking about them doing it, again the doctors confirmed it. I have made lumps in my body grow, but then vanish when my mind was taken elsewhere. I have made my nose bleed by thinking my blood wasn't clotting, and bruises appear and vanish for no reason. All this for many many years, I was always surprised that I survived childhood lol A couple of years a ago I had a lump appear in my throat they wanted to biopsy, but then I started to worry about something else and when it came to do the biopsy there was nothing to biopsy, narda!
All I have been told is it could be a Somatoform disorder, are there any others here with HA that can relate to this extreme form of HA?
Peter