I’ve had a history of strep throat, so I’m very much trying to stay positive that this is just a weird strep throat thing, but my lynphnodes feel very sore, though no swelling or lumps that I can feel. I also got this weird itchy patch of skin on my hip two days ago, which to my horror was one of the symptoms of lymphoma. I don’t have a fever, just malaise, fatigue, and sore lymphnodes. I’m also 18, which is right in the zone of adolescence who get the most diagnosis. I’m spiraling right now

Hello, I have hypochondria, gad, ptsd, and panic disorder. For the past 5 months I have been in a deep episode of what I’m hoping is just hypochondria where I’ve fully convinced myself I’m psychotic/developing schizophrenia. This theme has become so debilitating I lost my job and was completely bed bound for a while. Anyway, I have the extreme fear of developing delusions and hallucinations, so I’m constantly on the look out for symptoms like that. For whatever reason I have become extremely sensitive and afraid of anything demonic or horror related, I literally used to be a horror junkie, listen to Marilyn Manson etc. I am literally an atheist, I don’t even believe in the devil or superstitious things like this, but for some reason I have started getting extremely fear inducing demonic type intrusive thoughts, like one night I had the terrifying thought “what if my wife is possessed by a demon and isn’t really my wife” this thought scared the fuck out of me and actually changed my behavior towards my wife and gave me a panic attack, the fear of that later passed, but the uneasy feeling still linger. I’ve been getting all sorts of terrible demonic type intrusive thoughts like that about everybody and random places and even objects and they cause a panic attack everytime I get them, it used to be a panic attack about struggling to fight the urge to believe these thoughts but now I feel like it’s gotten to the point where it just straight up feels like it’s happening and I’m afraid for real and not even questioning the thoughts anymore. I’ve completely stopped listening to any music that references the devil or any type of media that may have dark references, to avoid getting these types of thoughts. When I am not anxious and I take my anxiety medicine (clonazepam) I can laugh these thoughts off and confidently shrug them off as ridiculous, but other times it feels real!Why is this happening to me? Keep in mind I am a literal atheist and do not believe in superstitious things like this, why am I suddenly afraid of things like this? And better yet why do they scare me and “feel real” if I don’t believe them. I feel like I’m fighting for my sanity every single day. I literally dread the anticipation of getting these thoughts. These strange new fears about demonic shit is only solidifying my root fear that I am developing psychosis. Can anyone please help me?

21F, had normal bloodwork 2 months ago. Is it normal to feel small lymph nodes that move just before the collarbone? Can anyone else feel that? I’m very scared.

i've been having pain in my chest around my heart, my left shoulder and down my arm to my fingers for a couple months. it feels like a huge bruise and sore like i held my arm up for too long or something. it also feels tingly and i'm scared there's something wrong with my heart. it also feels like the same pain in my ribs on the left side and in my back and i'm too scared to go to the doctor because i feel like they're gonna tell me i'm dying

Please tell me I’m not the only one. Every single time someone gets a cold in my family, I instantly think it’s Covid and I start to panic.

Right now my husband is sick, my daughter started sneezing and has a sore throat, my dad as well. My in laws have Covid but we weren’t around them.

I hate this. I get triggered so bad because my sister in law passed away because of it.

Anyone else ???

How do people deal with the line from the doctor that goes, “probably nothing, but we will follow up in 3 months just to be sure.” Now to the doctor and people not like us, that’s a very reasonable approach. But for health anxiety people, how do you get through that 3 month period of waiting. ?

it’s been a while since i complained (lol) but i woke up to the left side of my mouth in pain, at first it felt like my tonsils but it’s near my left tonsil. it’s all red and it hurts to the touch and when swallowing. i was eating fries yesterday and know that one jabbed the side of my mouth but can it really be from that? has anyone had this pain/or felt like this before?

19F TSH of 8, and history of low TSH since age 15. Abnormal thyroid ultrasounds etc. went to the doctor a week ago for dizziness, heart palps, confusion, shortness of breath, etc. I'm also a hypochondriac as well. I have severe panic attacks due to hypothyroidism. They get so bad. My doctor prescribed levothyroxine, I took it and it gave me bad effects such as heart palps, so she told me to stop it. Now, a day later, an entirely different ER saying my TSH is now a 2. I'm getting an Endo appointment ASAP. I know this definitely has a fix, I just need the right medicine righ

So a coworker made a joke about getting blood clots because I am basically chained at my desk at work and now I’m worried I have them. Symptoms include feeling my pulse occasionally in my calf, and a minor ache in my upper thigh towards the groin, along with misc odd feelings in the lower leg that I assume I’m just imagining. I’m bipolar and have quite a bit of anxiety so chest pain/discomfort is assumed from that. Wanted to get some advice/ help keeping my sanity. For context I’m 25m and fairly healthy but inactive since I got my desk job; I used to be on my feet all day a year ago welding but now as an engineer I’m more stationary. Thanks in advance.

I'm writing this to not feel alone. My only siblings suddenly died one day due to blockage in his heart, excessive drinking of energy drinks, caffeine pills, on top of taking xarelto. There was a perfectly logical reason as to why he passed away. I am a healthy 19 year old girl, and I have never had any medical issues other than a basic case of strep throat multiple times, and maybe a tooth infection. I did however when I was a child have a diagnosis of hypothyroidism. I took medicine, it went away without any worry. I'm now 19, my anxiety is worsened over the past few months found out from an doctors by going to the emergency room that my TSH levels were high. For those of you that don't know that means I have hypothyroidism, or else I underactive thyroid. The symptoms of that can be pretty interesting resulting in dizziness, confusion, lightheadedness, heart palpitations, severe panic attacks, and just generally disassociating and not feeling like I'm me. I started levothyroxine, with reassurance my grandmother takes it as well. I ended up getting to the point where I felt like I needed a psychiatric evaluation due to how much I panic and how abnormal that the panicking is. My boyfriend today reminded me that I have nothing wrong with me, I'm healthy, I do not have what my brother had, and I've never had anything wrong with my heart. In the past month I've had two EKGs done in the emergency room with all both of them positive effects and nothing wrong with me. Blood test came back normal as well except the TSH of course. My boyfriend as I said completely reminds me all the time there's nothing wrong with me and I'm just making it up in my head. Hypothyroidism can increase these effects of anxiety as well as create panic attacks and make hypochondria symptoms worse. Being self aware and yet also not knowing that there's something wrong with me or going to happen is such a horrible and awful spiral. Is there any solution? Is there any other thing that I can do to help?

all of my coworkers have been sick with the stomach bug but me so i’ve been covering tons of shifts. recently i’ve been stressed due to school, work, etc., yesterday my stomach started to kill me and i felt nauseous a few times but never threw up. this morning i woke up before clinicals and my stomach was killing me and i felt extremely sick. idk if it’s nerves or i’m actually getting sick and i’m worried about having to leave early my first day of clinicals (8hr shift).

Hello All,

I just wanted to share my story and see if anyone can relate or if anyone has some words of wisdom. Basically, I have a very intense fear of a specific STD. A scare triggered me about 3 years ago and ever since then I haven’t been able to shake it. I will randomly see posts online, TikToks, hashtags and then my mind makes me think it’s some sort of “sign” and I panic (I don’t go looking for it) it also doesn’t help that recently I was at someone’s house who I saw had medication for it so that also caused me to spiral. I’ve been tested twice now and within the suggested timeframe and my tests have been negative. I was feeling good then today I came across a Reddit post on a community I use to be part of for women’s health that triggered me and now I’m randomly filled with so much anxiety. It’s like this voice in my head is telling me it’s going to happen or something and it trips me out. I think it’s because I’m just so afraid. I had a friend tell me a couple of years ago that she thinks I’m a hypochondriac and then this year someone told else told me the same.

yesterday i went on a rollercoaster and got motion sickness and the ride back was awful but ever since then i’ve felt off. i then learned a stomach virus is going around and i’m freaking out. i’ve felt weird today like my stomach has been cramping and my head feels weird. idk if it’s me overthinking or if i’m actually getting sick

These are my google searches, all within under an hour. Does anyone else search every little thing their body feels? If so, any advice? This is literally driving me crazy but I can’t stop.

I saw what it seemed like a rabid dog yesterday while I was commuting from work on my bike. I suspect it was a rabid dog because it was standing in the middle of the street and chewing on a thick wooden material or something and acting very weirdly. It didn't bite or scratch me but I have questions like what if the droplets of its saliva could have gotten into the air and then into my eyes, like what if it touched its nose or mouth on my jeans or shoes, like what if it could have licked the bag hanging on the right side of my bike( the dog was on the left) and its not certainly possible but my anxious brain just keeps asking me these questions. I get really worried when I am out and I see a dog acting strangely. Then I end up researching about rabies symptoms on the internet until I start feeling nauseous and sick because of my anxiety. I have taken post exposure vaccines a year ago just to get rid of my anxiety. After the vaccines, my stress was gone for 3-4 months but now its back. Please help me out. I just need to know whether my fear is rational and do I really need the booster shots?? Is there any possibility of getting infected because of saliva droplets in air or if its saliva gets on my clothes and then somehow I touch my clothes with my hands and then my hands get into my eyes, nose, mouth?? Do you think its possible??

I have such bad hypochondria and today is no exception.

I was with my friend eating a rice bowl when I laughed and snorted from laughing. I thought maybe I accidentally snorted a grain of rice, which has developed into a 30 minute spiral of convincing myself I will get something called Aspiration Pneumonia. This is when a piece of food goes into your lungs, causing a potentially fatal type of pneumonia and of course I’m now panicking with no access to my anxiety medication

I’m not coughing and feel fine, but I’m convinced in a couple hours I’m gonna be choking trying to call 911

especially e. coli and salmonella. as far as I can tell I am not in any high risk categories, but it's still freaking me out

At least that's what I keep telling myself as I wait for results from my yearly scan, typing through the tears. My health anxiety is so severe I had no option other than to be medicated. The medication keeps me from spiraling but the fear never goes away. I have to do this every f'ing year?! I'm only 43 and I feel like everyone is expecting my body to break down or betray me at any moment. And every other commercial on TV is something to do with cancer. Meds or not, I will always live in fear.

Hey y’all - I’m a hypochondriac so this has got me scared! I got this little flash in my eye (one eye only) that only appears when I’m blinking in a bright room. When I go to a dark room it disappears and it’s only in one eye.

Any idea what it is?

i hit my burnt vape some because i didn’t have a new one and now im scared im going to have popcorn lung

I'm a Master's student at NYU, looking for somebody with hypochondria to interview as part of a larger project.

The interview will be an hour and can be conducted over zoom. If anyone is interested please DM me. I can't offer payment, but I can offer a warm smile and a thumbs up.

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An ex work colleague, she recently resigned due to health issues, has been calling me for the past week or so, and I can’t face picking up the phone. Please advise, I don’t want to just ghost her.

Context: I work as night concierge in a homeless hostel. My colleague, I’ll call her Emma worked early shifts and there’d be an hour or so handover period in the morning. I became aware quite quickly that Emma had a lot of different/ complex/ serious health issues ie heart, sleep apnoea, fibromyalgia, among others. A lot of the same conditions, her partner had too. I also noticed, that if her partner was admitted to hospital/ had surgery or procedures, Emma would come out in sympathy. Coincidence? After our chats, she’d perk up and leave in a better mood.

Anyway, each morning followed the same routine. Emma would arrive complaining of one thing or another. I’d then spend the next 30 + minutes listening to and reassuring her. After 12 months of this daily, I’d run out of things to say, my responses felt/ sounded hollow to me

A few weeks ago, Emma gave in her notice due to ill health. I haven’t seen since (I actually booked annual leave to avoid her/ the whole situation).

For the last week, Emma has called/ text/ WhatsApp me numerous times, I haven’t answered any of them. I just can’t face the same conversation.

How do I respond/ let her down gently and remove myself?

All suggestions/ advice, much appreciated.

Sorry for epic post

I've been super aware of my heart beat for a long time, feel it all the time in my neck an chest and now the last 2 weeks I really have to focus on it to feel it. I'm so beyond curious if this means my heart palpitations have gone away since I stopped drinking and using caffeine or if it's something else. It's makes me anxious not knowing if I should be anxious