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Can anyone top this example of hypochondria?

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StealthPolarBear · 09/03/2021 23:58

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

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garlictwist · 10/03/2021 14:58

When I was about 13 I thought I found a lump on my boob. I didn't dare tell anyone, and for a week thought I was dying. I told myself I had better appreciate the grass and the sky because I wasn't going to see them much longer. Turned out to be a spot.

Callybrid · 10/03/2021 16:17

I was so convinced I had a pulmonary embolism due to pregnancy that I rung the Drs back after they’d reassured me I was fine and drafted in a nice neighbour to watch my children lest I needed to dash to A and E (no partner around). Took off my bra later and miraculously my chest pain vanished...

NotanotherboxofFrogs · 11/03/2021 01:46

Age 11 at a kids adventure camp. I went running down the stairs to the staff to get them to call an ambulance. I was bleeding... My first period.

In my defence I had no idea that this was a thing or any idea about babies either so one of the staff gave me a pad and told me that I wasn't having a baby. She checked on me in a while and I was trying to work out what to do with the pad and if my chances of having children was gone.

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CockneyCutie · 11/03/2021 02:16

I convinced myself I’d got M.S. as I’d got awful pins & needles everyday. Really got myself in a state, broke down and told a friend what I was ‘suffering’ from... She asked a few general questions then pointed out that sleeping on my right arm all night every night might be causing it...
It was.
My DDad wanted to call 999 cos 6 week baby (mine) was grizzling before settling for the night...

StellaKowalski · 11/03/2021 02:21

@allfurcoatnoknickers

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.

I have done very similar Grin moles scare me!
Changechangychange · 11/03/2021 02:23

Not my hypochondria, but I did once get called to see a patient on a ward who had developed sharp chest pain radiating round to her back.

I sat her forward to examine her, and she was lying on her pen.

Toilenstripes · 11/03/2021 02:24

I had a mild earache and vertigo, mentioned it to my sister and noticed she got a strange look on her face. Two weeks later she was using it as an excuse for not going to dinner with friends. The strange look I noticed was apparently her filing it away for future use.

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