What triggered your Health Anxiety?

[ledzepp94]

Probably the constant nagging symptoms I have and the the imagery my brain comes up with. How were you able to come over the 2 fears?

[70sgirl]

Probably the constant nagging symptoms I have and the the imagery my brain comes up with. How were you able to come over the 2 fears?

I guess just getting tests done, and time both helped a lot.

For the brain tumour scare 2 doctors did tests on me - no scans or anything though. Also research - on the probability of getting a brain tumour at my age (very very low!) - also helped a lot. I often think about what my friends symptoms were and decided my 'symptoms' didn't compare to hers at all.

Re breast cancer - I had a lump so got an ultrasound done and all was fine. That alone nearly erased my fear - but also finding out how successful breast cancer treatments are these days also helped. My friend who had breast cancer is doing very well!