Hypochondriacs please stand up......
- Thread starter Kimenem
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I don't remember a time when I didn't worry about something. I *think* I'm better than I used to be but every now and then a simple headache can become a potential brain tumor or better yet, a blood clot in my brain. And a simple leg ache can become a DVT scare(deep vein thrombosis), the list goes on and onx(
Carolyn
I don't remember a time when I didn't worry about something. I *think* I'm better than I used to be but every now and then a simple headache can become a potential brain tumor or better yet, a blood clot in my brain. And a simple leg ache can become a DVT scare(deep vein thrombosis), the list goes on and onx( Carolyn
allwildgirl
Cathlete
The only thing I'm ever like that with is headaches, and it's simply because my mom had an aneurysm that burst resulting in a massive brain haemmhorrage (I'm sure I didn't spell that right).
Otherwise I pretty much ignore every symptom I ever have, unless it becomes unbearably uncomfortable
Otherwise I pretty much ignore every symptom I ever have, unless it becomes unbearably uncomfortable
spyrosmom
Cathlete
I can be that way, too. Although I tend to ignore things til they are really painful or interfering a lot with my life. Then I think I'm going to die!!! My mom was diagnosed with luekemia after going to the ER for a really bad back ache. So when I injured my back a few yrs back (waited til I couldn't bear to sit, stand or lie before going to Dr), I made the poor DR run every test in the book!!! Hey, better paranoid then dead!!
Nan
Nan
Kimenem
Cathlete
Thanks you guys. I was pretty sure I was the only one and felt like posting this would make everyone say "yeah, she's nuts." Nan and Shelley, sorry to hear about your mothers. Cancer scares the *&(*&) out of me as I'm sure it does most people. The reason I posted this is because I've been having low back problems :-(
I freak out about raw meat. Salmonella and ecoli and all that nasty bacteria. I end up washing and washing and washing my hands while I'm preparing red meat, disinfecting the counters at least once, maybe even twice.
I also have this abnormal fear of vomiting. Perhaps it's because I've only up-chucked on about 4 separate occasions - no 5 - in my entire life. Tummy flu 3 times and food poisoning once and some unknown reason once when I was kid (I just urpied up while I was sleeping). I've been so weirded out about it in the past that it's dominated my every thought. I'd hear that someone got sick at work and I'd freak - start disinfecting EVERYTHING!!! I'm better about not worrying about this than I used to be, but I'm not completely "cured". Probably never will be.
That's usually the only kind of stuff that I get hypochon about - anything that can make me sick. I must have had a bad past life experience with sickness or something.
I also have this abnormal fear of vomiting. Perhaps it's because I've only up-chucked on about 4 separate occasions - no 5 - in my entire life. Tummy flu 3 times and food poisoning once and some unknown reason once when I was kid (I just urpied up while I was sleeping). I've been so weirded out about it in the past that it's dominated my every thought. I'd hear that someone got sick at work and I'd freak - start disinfecting EVERYTHING!!! I'm better about not worrying about this than I used to be, but I'm not completely "cured". Probably never will be.
That's usually the only kind of stuff that I get hypochon about - anything that can make me sick. I must have had a bad past life experience with sickness or something.