Anxiety and Pseudo symptoms

[Twitch7119]

Does anyone else our there have the same problem as I do? I suffer from OCD and Anxiety. The majority of it revolves around heath retaliated Anxiety. With this anxiety comes pseudo symptoms for example I wake up and my throat hurts to I think it must be throat cancer so no for a week the moment I wake up my mind goes there and I can sense this pain. Or I'll hey this headache and obsess it brain cancer. I'm on the highest dose of Prozac and it was helping for a while but now it seems to have just stopped. Does anyone else suffer like this and if so what do you do? I've been to my PCP many times and she talks me it all in my head but I know what I'm feeling.

[AnxiousSilver]

Very very very normal for people with anxiety to think that their symptoms are something worse.

However.. If you haven't seen your doc in a while, then getting checked out may be good for your own peace of mind.

[anxhidep]

I went through a phase where I did that a lot. The doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. It didn't help that on 2 occasions they missed the mark. You have to find a doctor you can trust and that listens to you. Being informed is ok. Being your own doctor can be frightening and increase your anxiety.

[Hb2003]

Recently my health anxiety is bad I think of the worse things possible to happen and I freak out about it your not alone I probably might need to go back on my anxiety medication