re: Health related anxiety

Soccer board fantasy thread.

Appreciate all the responses.

I definitely relate to the chasing your tail thing. I've self diagnosed cancer on about 4 different parts of my body as well as waiting for the impending heart attack/stroke/aneurysm to come at any moment.

I don't ever take medicine but I had been thinking if maybe like a week's worth of something could help just to get me out of the cycle of that being the first thing I think about when I wake up every morning? Sounds like that may be what worked for St. Aug.

I have a appointment coming up in a couple of weeks for my annual physical for insurance purposes so if it's still going on I guess I'll discuss with the doc then.

Honestly reading this thread has helped a lot knowing that I'm not totally crazy and that other people have had the same experiences and weren't dying.

Thanks again.

Randy, if you want to try a supplement that might help with anxiety or OCD features, try L-theanine or inositol. Read the Amazon reviews if you're interested.

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Is that like an OTC vitamin or a prescription?

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How you doing, man?

Isn't health related anxiety just fear of dying? How do you come to terms with that?

I had chest pain for 6 months, I knew it wasn't cardiac as it was reproducible with movement. It was most likely costochondritis, but most bouts last just weeks. I had a CT, and they found some scar tissue that could be cancerous. It was so small they said to wait a year to see if it grows, but they put my nerves at ease when they told me they had them too, and they were even larger, and it's just scar tissue from pollution. I definitely had anxiety from worrying about what it could be and reading web md. The chest pain has gone after a year. Somehow I have no anxiety about the nodules once the told me to not worry, I try not to think about it. I will get a CT in a few months

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How you doing, man?

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Frustrated.

After this thread the other day I had a really good afternoon/evening and was having a good morning yesterday and then around lunch time I had a pretty good dizzy spell. Probably the second worst since this all started and that kind of threw me for a loop again. Then I found out an acquaintance, early 40s, passed away yesterday after a battle with pancreatic cancer and that didn't help.

Woke up with it on the brain big time this morning. I just went and got some of that L-theanine stuff so we'll see if that helps any.

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Isn't health related anxiety just fear of dying?

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No. Everybody fears death to an extent. The anxiety is when you are convinced you know why you are gonna die. Fixate on some symptom.

I always feel better after exercise, BUT if you are in the middle of a full blown panic, a public place exerting yourself ain't the place to be. But if you just feel a bit down or slightly "anxious about being anxious" a workout always helps me.


You got to decide when to see a doctor. The correct answer is easy. When your life is appreciably shitty, that's when. You will wind up depressed. If you aren't there already. Depressed about being anxious is no way to live.

Xanax. If it doesn't go away on its own and you are left with 2-3 Xanax that you don't need, then don't worry about it. Get on with life. If you run out of medicine and still feel on the edge of shitty, see your doctor again. You need an SSRI and a lesser benzo. Like Valium or Klonipin. They are all addictive, but Xanax is the worst. Always see people who take it long term end up on "bars". I can't wrap my head around how stoned 2mg of Xanax must be.

Also, YouTube the breathing exercises. You will find a lot of click bait bullshite that are just selling you a book or a technique? frick that stuff. For now just find some easy videos.

Bumping this thread as the information has helped me greatly. I had bad health anxiety 5 years ago after my parents divorce and with time it went away. Now, with the birth of my amazing 4 week old son, anxiety is heightened with me hyperfocusing on health because I want to be there for wife and baby(hopefully more babies one day!). Went to doctor and they did every blood test, physical, etc. and said i'm in perfect health but I convince myself I am not.

I'm in therapy and it is helping immensely but I am very worried about taking an SSRI and how that may effect me even more negatively. So for the time being I am attacking my anxiety and facing it head on to put it down.

Anyways, thanks for this post and letting me vent.

It’s crazy how much mental anxiety and therefore constant stress and effect your body.