Hello.
I would be really grateful for some advice as I am worrying myself sick.
About two months ago, I started getting quite bad headaches ever day - sometimes in the morning but mostly around the afternoon. I also had this feeling of falling inside my head.
After about three weeks, I rang my work doctor, who suggested I had vertigo.
The symptoms carried on for another two weeks and I rang my own GP - he suggested that I go immediately to the hospital for a brain scan.
I went to the hospital and had a blood test before seeing a doctor gave me a good once over.
He told me that there was nothing wrong with me and suggested that I perhaps get my eyes tested. He was so sure that there was nothing to worry about that he did not think it necessary to even have a scan.
I went to the optomestrist the very next day, who gave me a thorough eye test and said I was borderline and probably did not even need glasses.
I have to say that throughout this (after about the second week of headaches) I started to fear the worst - immediatly, I thought brain tumour.
I was so relieved when the doctor said I was fine that I burst into tears outside the hospital.
For the last month, however, I have still been having headaches and cannot get it off my mind that I have a tumour that was missed.
To make things worse, I seem to keep on running into things that remind me of it - I randomly saw on the net, a webpage about an American politician that died of a brain tumour. Then, of course, the poor man from the band "The Wanted", who has been all over the news.
I am also aware that Sue Perkins has benign brain tumours - I turn on the TV, to cheer myself up and there she is on the screen.
I am now spending all my time obsessively reading about brain tumours to try and reassure myself that they are "rare" for someone of my age (41).
At the same time, it is making things worse - the more I read about symptoms of brain tumours, the more I seem to find many that I identify with.
Is this behaviour normal?
I would rather be overcautious than under but I am finding it difficult just relax and move on with my life at the moment.
