I have suffered with health anxiety for over 2 years now. I have started with pain mainly right temple and of course convinced it is a brain tumour. I have worked myself into such a state I feel sick, lightheaded, shaky faint etc. Dr checked me for neuro signs ok and eyes were also checked but I am so afraid everytime I feel a twinge.
Can anxiety make you feel so ill. I feel like my left arm and leg are weak but dr says they are not it is a perceived weakness. The pain in my temple is not really a headache but a tight pressure superficial sensation and my neck hurts.
Please anyone else with this I am always running to the dr and paying for expensive tests over other scares I have had chest abdo pelvis ct, mri lower spine ultrasound abdo etc etc in the last year. Dont want an mri as I am so claustropjobic and the last one on my spine really blew my ears and gave me tinnitus. My dr says it is not the answer anyway, if I could just forget about a brain tumour.
Anyone please
Maria
Hello
I have always suffered with Health anxiety even though over the years I can control the thoughts a lot better & over the years my anxiety has told me I have had everything you can possibly imagine and a few that according to my Doctor could not be medically possible
So I no how you feel but you have to start reasoning things , I know it is not easy when you believe what your anxiety is saying but it can be done , takes some practice but slowly it improves
With this & I have had the pains in my temples feels like something is pushing on them as well as the pain you feel but that is tension , we have little nerves all over are bodies and they get so knotted up because we are so tense even when we don't always realize it that it is a way of our bodies letting us know it would like us to relax and let those muscles and nerves unwind and when we can these things usually stop bothering us
Think rationally , you have been examined , the Doctor cannot find anything wrong , now I am sure if they could they would have you in asp as it would be more than their job was worth to ignore it
You have to try & trust you Doctor , they have spent years training so have faith in them or like someone once said to me , what was the point in going if I was not going to believe what they said , I thought about that & realized it was very true
I have been where you are though & was never away from the Doctors , one time I was there every day waiting for them to open , but now I try & ask myself when I feel the urge do I really need to go , yes maybe for reassurance but no that there is anything seriously the matter is usually the answer
Are you getting any therapy for your anxiety ? because rather than keep going for tests or even costing you to have some tests I think you would really benefit from some intensive therapy
Take Care x