I'm wondering if any of you have any tips on how to get real medical help from your doctor? I have a few diagnosed medical issues (none too serious) but there are still things that I feel I need help with. I have been to the docs a million times this past year whilst in my health anxiety bubble... the thing is, i actually ended up having real medical problems that were finally diagnosed but within that whirlwind, health anxiety developed (thinking I had terrible diseases etc). For the past 6 months i've had upper back pain that is getting worse and worse...it's sort of taken a back seat to any other HA issues i've been having so i've only been the docs with it a couple of times and i've been happy to be told its nothing. Now though, the pain is really getting bad... my shouder blade clicks and the ache woke me up in the night. How do I go about convincing my doc that I really need some sort of treatment or scan or something? My mum has arthritis so i'm just wondering whether this could be something similar. I'm not having panic attacks or major anxiety over this, I just want to get some investigation incase there's something that can be done to stop the pain. I'm worried my doc will think it's just all in my head or im exaggerating because i'm in the docs so much for other things. Also, I don't want this to turn into yet another HA obsession... I read the other day about a woman who had back pain written off but was actually a spinal tumour! I'm not at that stage of worry yet but you know how quick it can catch up with you! Just thought i'd see what your opinions are on this, I tend to ramble on though