Can anyone top this example of hypochondria?

[StealthPolarBear]

Can I start by saying I am fairly robust and not silly, and I know that what will kill me will be cardiovascular disease from the excess weight - I am trying to lose it.
However, I get very chapped hands, and one night I went to bed with a particularly painful cut on my finger from it. It throbbed and was very painful but I couldn't be bothered t get up and put germolene on what is essentially a big papercut.
Anyway, in that paranoid state between wake and sleep I started to wonder, did I really know the symptoms of sepsis, and was I falling asleep or passing out :o
To ruin the suspense, whichever it was, I survived and my nasty papercut is much better :o

DH tried to insist we take DS to A&E when he was about 5 weeks old, he had hiccups. I told him there really was no need. He was convinced there was something wrong with him, and sat on his phone googling potential illnesses for hours.

Gosh, so glad you survived that, @StealthPolarBear! Any near misses since ?

My DM had a mole biopsied, convinced herself it was terminal cancer and planned her funeral right down to the readings and the hymns. It was high drama for weeks.

It was just a mole. She's still alive and kicking 14 years later.

Very glad your DM survived! No more neat misses for me thankfully, I can't handle the stress!

My brother was "actually dying" yesterday because he swallowed a too-large piece of apple and decided it must've pierced his oesophagus.

And paranoia with babies, especially teeny ones is a different ballgame, we've all been there :o dh put tiny ds down in his cot for the first ever time and misjudged the distance slightly so the last inch or so went with a bit of a thump. He was seriously stressing he'd given him brain damage. Ds didn't even wake up!

I have had a couple incidences where I have felt a pain in my arm whilst dozing off and wondering whether I was having a heart attack - but too comfortable to actually do anything so just continuted to lie there thinking if I am i'm sure it will get worse!

When the dentists closed during the first lockdown I read online about how even emergency dental treatment wasn't available. A couple of days later I started feeling pain in a bottom left tooth. The pain started spreading until it was my whole bottom left jaw. I convinced myself that I had such a bad cavity that it had spread to the bone, infected the bone and I would have to have major surgery. I've been too scared to go to the dentist until two weeks ago when I finally got the courage. Turns out my teeth are fine, the pain was because I was clenching my jaw and grinding my teeth (stress). Honestly I think I'm losing the plot!

As a teenager I had what looked like an insect bite on my leg that was quite large and red-looking. I googled it and with the assistance of a 'helpful' medical website (one of those ones where you put in your symptoms and it gives you a list of potential illnesses) I completely convinced myself I had bubonic plague. My mum laughed when I told her but I was so convinced I actually started crying about it. It still makes me cringe when I think about it now. I do tell people this story to warn against the dangers of googling symptoms even though I'm still guilty of doing it myself. The internet is not always your friend.

I few years ago I was having horrible heartburn when I went to bed. Dr google got involved and I convinced myself I had oesophageal cancer. Didnt help I knew someone who'd died of it recently.

The cause was eventually found to be cheap own brand carbonated water. FFS.

Brother started coughing and was worried he had lung cancer...... our uncle had recently died of it

Pmsl at bubonic plague.
Ooh interesting about the water, I drink that too.

Sorry forgot to mention uncle was in his 60 life long smoker and brother was 20 and never touched a cigarette

One year on boxing day my dad became struck down with terrible abdominal pains. He convinced my uncle to drive him an hour to the nearest hospital that was open (after spending half an hour on the computer googling different medical problems.)
Came back looking very sheepish and disappeared upstairs. My uncle stepped in the front door and just said "It was trapped wind."

Sorry about your uncle :( I do think it's normal to up the paranoia when you watch a loved one die.

@allfurcoatnoknickers my DM convinced herself that the blemish on her breast was cancer. I drove 150 miles to go to her hospital appointment with her. It was an insect bite

My ex wanted me to call an ambulance when he had the runs for 4 hours

hiccups in a baby is not nice when they are still on the inside, someone else hiccuping in your tummy is weird.

@StealthPolarBear thanks. We weren't THAT close though, he lived a bit far so we would see him maybe once/twice a year. He was a really nice person, so I suppose we still connected with him, you could say.
My brother is very anxious like my mum but in his case manifests as occasional hypochondria

That reminds me - my elderly grandad was admitted with huge chest pains. He was in for days and all scans came back clear. After a few days he sheepishly admitted to my uncle that some stacked up wood in his garage had fallen in front of the garage door so he'd had to 'shimmy' in through the garage window. My uncle said "you stupid old fool, you've pulled a muscle in your chest" and got him discharged asap

My best friend is a serial offender, last week she had a twitch/spasm in her thumb and rang me panicking that she has Motor Neurone Disease. It's a bit exhausting actually. Every unexplained lump is cancer, all headaches are brain tumours, her kids have potentially contracted Weils Disease, diabetes, leukaemia etc etc.

I had awful stomach pain when pregnant. Literally rolling around the floor. I was convinced I was either losing the baby or in early labour. DH got everything sorted to take me to hospital. To get up off the floor I had to go onto all fours. I had a nassive fart as I did and miraculously felt better .
In my defense it was incredibly painful.

Quite a few years ago, my best friend asked for a life to A&E with chest pains. I was ever so sympathetic and took her, although was unprepared to sit and wait the 4 hours to be seen, but I did pick her back up again. When she had recieved a diagnosis of trapped wind

My little brother is terrible.

When I was 12 I had my first asthma attack and i ended up in hospital as they kept coming thick and fast and it took awhile to get breathing under control and run tests etc.

I struggled for a couple of weeks finding my triggers and when i had a particularly bad attack during the night mum kept me off school as it often took a couple of hours until it was under control, the panic subsided and i could get back to sleep.

One day (when he had an english test) my brother came downstairs still on PJ's and said he couldn't possibly go to school because I'd given him asthma and it had gone into his belly.

He's no better these days, my sister in law and i were discussing migraines, mine are hormone related and I get them when i ovulate usually. He said he suffers terribly when he ovulates and then stomped off in a strop when we laughed at him 🤣

I really needed this today. I’ve had awful shoulder and elbow pain for a couple of months - I have a heavy toddler, so one of those things. I’ve also been bone shatteringly exhausted the last month, turns out my thyroid is buggered and I’m speaking to the doctor this week, probably no big deal.

But, having never experienced any kind of health anxiety or hypochondria in my life, I was washing up the other night, mind wandering and decided I definitely had some sort of rare shoulder cancer (yup, I need to get out more) and was debating whether or not to write my daughter letters for the birthdays and major life events I’d be missing having died, died of exhaustion related shoulder cancer