Bad health anxiety

Hello everyone, 

 

rnis is my first time writing something like this and I'm doing to try and explain my symptoms and situation I'm feeling right now as best as i can. I lost my mum to cancer in feb 2022 and she was the  perosn I went to when my health anxeity was l playing up. I don't have that anymore so I l thougjt id feel a bit better if I wrote it all down l. 
 

this happens mostly at night not long after I lay down. I start to feel like there's tension in my head mostly around the back I start to feel like my eyes get really heavy. And my eyes start to feel really heavy and like i struggle to keep them open. I then start to shake like a leaf and Tremble and also feel really weak and sometimes I loose concentration.  (I also started getting the thoughts in my head  that if I go to sleep I'm not going to wake up. I also think I lot of it may be due to needing glasses I squint a lot and my eyes do blurry. 
 

I have a massive fear that it's a brain tumour and that's why I get dizzy and my head feels fuzzy. I also have a fear of seizures, passing out and strokes.  I

am a healthy 20 year old girl and during the day I don't feel like this at all and half of  the time I think I get myself so worked up thinking something bad is gonna happen to me. But then whilst I'm worrying the times goes on and I tell myself well if soemthint bad was going to happen (going to happen then it would've happened by now) 

 

I've calmed down a lot after writing this post. Im not sure if it's a waste of anybodys time. 

 

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  • Hey if you ever need to chat, send me a message. 

    I too have severe health anxiety, and quite often I have convinced myself and created my own symptoms which fit a illness. 

    I don't mean to do it. But happened in cycles. 

    I too lost my mum at a young age from Cancer, so know exactly where you are coming from. I have a young daughter myself so make sure my health is always on top form for her. 

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  • Hey if you ever need to chat, send me a message. 

    I too have severe health anxiety, and quite often I have convinced myself and created my own symptoms which fit a illness. 

    I don't mean to do it. But happened in cycles. 

    I too lost my mum at a young age from Cancer, so know exactly where you are coming from. I have a young daughter myself so make sure my health is always on top form for her. 

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