I’m worried if it’s a brain tumour or just health anxiety.

Ok, basically I’m a 17 year old male. I was getting heart palpatations and chest pains so we went to a&e. They did tests and said I was all fine and it was proabably anxiety/stress. I do get stressed socially, but hadn’t had a huge amount of stress recently to cause this, but they say it could be a build up.

Since then they’ve gone away but now I’m nauseas, tired and have a lot of tension in the back of my head. I then felt my head and feel a lump on the part of my head where the tension is. Today my left eye has been hurting as well, and the headaches have been more icepick.

I’m extremely worried that it’s a tumour and not just stress, I became depressed in 2015 alongside tinnitus and have bottled it up. I’ve been getting worse memory and have had behaivoural changes in that time.

I feel like this all suggests a tumour. I have been using dr Google so that’s why I’m so worried. I’m going to the GP tomorrow but I’m afraid they won’t take it seriously and will treat it as just anxiety.

Should I be worried.

Thanks for reading.

Didn’t know what category to put it in.

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  • Hi there

    I have never posted on here before but I just came across your post and I had to comment Just want to start off by saying I know how you feel 

    I am a 21 year old mother of 2 and my health anxiety started as soon as I had my son, I’m constantly worrying I have cancer or I’m going to get it, so much so that I actually convince myself so much that I start to GIVE myself symptoms of these ‘illnesses’ and every time I go to a doctor thinking I have a brain tumour, cervical cancer, throat cancer etc I am CONVINCED that doctors arnt taking my irrational thoughts seriously... but that’s exactly what they are.. IRRATIONAL trust me, you are OK you are experiencing Hypercondria. Please for the love of god stay OFF google you will make it so much worse 

    I would suggest the next time you go to your doctors that you ask to be referred for CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) 

    wishing you the best, you are not alone x 

  • Hi idk if ppl still look on here but I'm 14 and I have anxiety but I'm really scared I have a brain tumer I always convince my self I'm I'll like cancer etc n get my mum to take me to the doctor last time I went I thought I had lung cancer they Checked my heart rate etc n I was fine but I googled my symptoms n it said brain tumer my balance ain't grate I haw abit of face numbness but have for years and I'm just scared please reply :(

  • Hey Byron, 

    how are you doing now? I have been having headaches ranging from a 4 to an 8 (out of 10) for about a month. After surfing the internet I started to get worried if I might have brain tumour. My headache is not on one place it is all over different places of my head. I know how you feel as I am 14 too . I had a lot of health anxiety even down there . I still don't know why I get these headaches. I don't have any problems with my vision except my eyes hurt a bit sometimes while having a headache. Try not to search up many things as I have learnt today because Google tell us the wrong thimgs. Stay safe in this time of Covid. [@maxcookie60]‍ made a really good point. Try to stay hyderated keep up with the symptoms but don't worry too much; remember you are not alone, even I need to stop googling symptoms.

    Keep healthy and fit bye for now :)

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  • Hey Byron, 

    how are you doing now? I have been having headaches ranging from a 4 to an 8 (out of 10) for about a month. After surfing the internet I started to get worried if I might have brain tumour. My headache is not on one place it is all over different places of my head. I know how you feel as I am 14 too . I had a lot of health anxiety even down there . I still don't know why I get these headaches. I don't have any problems with my vision except my eyes hurt a bit sometimes while having a headache. Try not to search up many things as I have learnt today because Google tell us the wrong thimgs. Stay safe in this time of Covid. [@maxcookie60]‍ made a really good point. Try to stay hyderated keep up with the symptoms but don't worry too much; remember you are not alone, even I need to stop googling symptoms.

    Keep healthy and fit bye for now :)

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