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Severe health anxiety and cancer worries

chinchops76
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Dear all,

It is interesting to read all these posts and realise I am not alone.  I am so scared of being diagnosed with something terminal and not seeing my two boys grow up.  Like others of you, I scrutinise and Google every ache, twinge, pain etc to the point it is beginning to impact upon my enjoyment of 'life'. I hate the impact it is having and know that the worrying will make things worse but I am unsure how to get out of this cycle.  

I think it links back to a few years ago when I lost my grandparents within a month of each other and I went to see them in hospital. I myself also had a 2ww referral for my Liver last year which fortunately turned put to be a hemangioma.

Chinchops76

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    I have exactly the same issues as yourself. For the past 4 or 5 years or so I have become almost obsessed with the thought of having cancer, specifically lung cancer. At its worst, my anxieties can dominate my day as pretty much all I think about is the ache I have in my back is without a shadow of a doubt lung cancer.

    I fractured my vertebrae in my back about 15 years ago and have played basketball all my life, so there is every indication the ache is due to that, I even had my chest and lungs x rayed a year ago which came back fine. Does that knowledge help me? Of course it doesnt. The only thing that helps me is work and keeping occupied so I don't think too much.

    Its so nice to have found a group who exhibit exactly what I'm going through. 

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    I have exactly the same issues as yourself. For the past 4 or 5 years or so I have become almost obsessed with the thought of having cancer, specifically lung cancer. At its worst, my anxieties can dominate my day as pretty much all I think about is the ache I have in my back is without a shadow of a doubt lung cancer.

    I fractured my vertebrae in my back about 15 years ago and have played basketball all my life, so there is every indication the ache is due to that, I even had my chest and lungs x rayed a year ago which came back fine. Does that knowledge help me? Of course it doesnt. The only thing that helps me is work and keeping occupied so I don't think too much.

    Its so nice to have found a group who exhibit exactly what I'm going through. 

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