missunderstood
04-03-06, 12:35
Hi everyone, haven't been on here for a while as I've been feeling a lot better recently but this last week I've started to feel my anxiety slowly creeping back and it's beginning to affect my day to day activities again.
I have serious issues with health anxiety. Recently I went to the doctor's as I was getting pains in the left side of my chest which also went down my arm. He passed it off as nothing but since I saw him the pain has been getting worse, mainly down my arm which is now pretty much in constant pain and if the pain subsides it's only to a dull ache. Combined with this I get chest pains on and off too and, being an anxious person, I've started to worry something is wrong with me again, especially heart problems or, i know it sounds stupid, but cancer or something.
Every time I pick myself up I seem to fall back down again.
And how am I supposed to tell the difference between symptoms caused by anxiety and a genuine health problem? One day I might pass something off as anxiety which may actually be for real.
I'm only 21 and I just can't seem to fully enjoy my uni experience as my anxiety and stress is always with me.
Bex
I have serious issues with health anxiety. Recently I went to the doctor's as I was getting pains in the left side of my chest which also went down my arm. He passed it off as nothing but since I saw him the pain has been getting worse, mainly down my arm which is now pretty much in constant pain and if the pain subsides it's only to a dull ache. Combined with this I get chest pains on and off too and, being an anxious person, I've started to worry something is wrong with me again, especially heart problems or, i know it sounds stupid, but cancer or something.
Every time I pick myself up I seem to fall back down again.
And how am I supposed to tell the difference between symptoms caused by anxiety and a genuine health problem? One day I might pass something off as anxiety which may actually be for real.
I'm only 21 and I just can't seem to fully enjoy my uni experience as my anxiety and stress is always with me.
Bex