How did you health anxiety start?

Hi guys I have been suffering health anxiety for months now. Iam trying to get my head around it as before I was healthy and very confident ect now iam like a different person just curious to find out how others anxiety started? Was it symptoms?

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You sound just like me...I was fine until I had a panic attack and then I worried about having another one so much I start having palpitations and then that was it...Im convinced everytime my heart flutters that I'm going to die. To no honest I don't think I'll ever get rid of this..I think it's learning how to manage it xxx

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Oh I suffer from horrendous chest pain as well...so that panics me even more xx

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Hi

I think mine started as a child when I saw my Mum so upset over loosing her brother & the crying , i can still recall now , that was my first experience of loosing someone & it frightened the crap out of me

So even as I child I started to worry what if it happened to me, I couldnt fully understand it & why it happened

Then when my Dad started having his heart attacks , I started been convinced it was going to happen to me & it just escalated from there

I have always thought since that everything that is wrong with me or that I feel has to be serious , but I do believe thats how it began

It has got better , until I dont feel well & then it can come back , but that is when i am actually poorly , aches & pains , i can now ignore

I dont no if this helps any

Love

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Ashley I think ur right it is learning to manage it. Mine started at work I had a palpation that I never had before. This made me worse as my mum had a heart attack and has angina. She is well now but I fear that iam going to get it and I get panicked by the symptoms. I find it odd o get the symptoms then I panic. Why why I can understand ur worry over ur dad as I say iam the same. All my risk factors for heart disease is minimal. Iam trying now to expose myself to the pain, ect to show myself nothing bad is happening and it's there. I seen alt of things happen in my job which is in health care this doesn't help me. I wish I could think out of the whole population the few I see are literally a few and the majority of us are well and healthy. Xxx

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My doc diagnosed me with G.A.D. (Generalised anxiety disorder) back in March but I think that it was triggered by some health issues at the very beginning of the year: I went to see him with some low back ache pain and he, being very efficient, sent me along to the nurse for a string of blood tests (hate blood tests!) and BP check, booked me in for some Xrays at local hospital then followed up by a DEXA bone density scan afterwards. Arrrgghhhhh! It all seemed too much and I started worrying about it all. The results of all these tests only showed up fairly minor problems but by then it was too late - the dreaded Anxiety had kicked in.

Without going into all the details of what my particular Anxiety symptoms were like, I had 10 counselling sessions, read some books and other literature, used relaxation tapes, and tried various herbal medications to shift it. I can't claim that any one thing made it go away but another doc in the same practice gave me some medication to help me with my broken sleep pattern and that helped me to start sleeping 6+ hours again. Once my sleep improved I felt more positive and I started feeling more relaxed. I gradually improved over about a month and the good news is that it gradually faded away completely and I feel OK again now. I'm aware it could re-occur but I hope that if it does I'll recognise the symptoms for what they are and be able to take some action to stop them taking over completely.

I've ended on a positive note to give hope to those currently suffering

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I have had health anxiety on and off for forty years. I don't know how it started, I was a very nervous child. My theory is some people are more predisposed to anxiety or there is a chemical I balance in the brain. Either way it sucks

[Gilly2711]

I have health anxiety too, everytime I have a headance or a pain anywhere rather than just thinking its only a headache I worry that is the start of something serious, i am also exhausted alll the time, i am much better when I am at home but find it hard to concentrate in work. I have a new symptom of anxiety and that is sinus pain caused by tension but again I cant help thinking it is something worse. I hate having anxiety

[Jue68 in reply to Gilly2711]

Hi , I'm like that I've suffered from anxiety for years and always think everything that I get wrong with me is something serious and I'm going to die , it sounds crazy but you really believe it when it's happening and cannot concentrate on anything , it's awful, but the thing is we know why we feel like that that it is anxiety but it doesn't stop the worrying every time something happens .

[tinkerbel19]

Hi jist saw your post and recently I'm battling with health anxiety. yes I know I dont habmve any diseases but the thought comes back in my mind. I just need to control the thought but I cant.