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alix123
01-07-11, 22:10
Hi all

Well so far this year i've thought I had cancer, heart attack, stroke, blood clots and brain tumours but last week I watched something on tv about ALS which is a muscle wasting disease similar to what Stephen Hawking has.
I didn't know what it was so Googled it out of curiosity and wouldn't you know it I have some symptoms and now I think I have it.
I'm panicing like crazy as it's a very scary thought and the outlook is grim.
I'm telling myself I don't have it and my partner is tellingme I don't but I can't get it off my mind, I can feel pain in all my muscles and feel like my co ordination is off. I want to go to the doctor about it but was just there last week asking him did I have a brain tumour.
Just needed to get it off my chest as family and friends don't understand why you can't just not think about it.

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worried91
01-07-11, 22:22
ALS is just unfathomably rare and as far as I can tell symptoms don't really seem to match anyway. I'm sure you're fine :)

You admit you have a history of health anxiety and I think your body is just exhausted from the constant worrying.