A time you've been very worried about your health but it's turned out to be nothing?

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I am undergoing investigations for new symptoms but my health anxiety has just absolutely exploded and I'm convinced it's going to be worst case scenario.

Would any of you be willing to share with me a time where you have felt similar and everything ended up ok and symptoms settled, please?

Maybe an odd request, just want to try and ground myself somewhere more neutral rather than 'definitely going to be bad' whilst being investigated.

Thank you

Having bloods done and then getting a call off the doctor to tell me to go to haematology. Got there to find consultant and staff waiting all masked/gowned (pre Covid)
They (snd I) thought it was leukaemia, it wasn't, it's a rare autoimmune disorder
I have to inject myself and have bloods done every 12 weeks but that's about it (apart from being prone to infection and CEV in covid times!)

And my dad. Ignored rectal bleeding to the point it was pouring. Doctor did blood tests and sent an ambulance as they were concerned he was likely to keel over any second as he had lost about 30% of his blood volume

He asked to finish work before he went to hospital and the paramedics virtually frogmarched him into the ambulance
Two blood transfusions and some investigation, He had polyps. If he had just had them seen he wouldn't have needed the damn blood transfusions! He's fine now

Age 22, at university. Woke up one night with the most horrific headache on one side, couldn't turn over or move my left arm, leg, face had fallen & eye closed on one side, couldn't speak, confused. Genuinely thought I was dying. Managed to wake up my BF who was asleep next to me. He rang an ambulance, they thought it was a stroke. It wasn't a stroke. Their next guess was a brain tumour. I spent a couple of weeks until after I'd had a CT & MRI scan worrying I had a brain tumour, while trying to figure out what subject to choose for my dissertation. Couldn't get hold of my parents because "their mobile phones were for their convenience & not anyone else's". They never used to answer the home phone & we didn't have an answer machine.

It turned out to be migraines. A rare type, but still... migraines.

Have also had a benign breast lump (had some fancy name that I don’t remember). Dr did remove it under local as I was moving to a small town and he said no one would keep an eye on it, so I guess potentially could turn into something.

Also lumps on my thyroid, had them biopsied and not cancerous yet. Just as well as one type of thyroid cancer he told me before I got the results is certain death and the other treatable. My ENT scans them yearly and May remove the side with the biggest nodules at some point

@LegoCaltrops

I'm sorry you went through that without the support of your parents.

I've had a couple of aura migraines. The first one I was at home alone with then 2yo DD. Started seeing zigzags...nodded off on the sofa and woke up really disorientated, feeling like I couldn't remember things or speak properly. Somehow managed to call my parents (then H was not contactable) and dad stayed with DD while mum took me to A & E.

Initially thought it could be a TIA but turned out to be a migraine. Thankfully I've only had a couple of much less scary ones since.

Intend to be the opposite of anxious. I always manage to look on the bright side . Even when I had an ultrasound scan for cholecystitis and it showed a ' large mass ' in my pelvic area I wasn't worried . A couple of weeks later I was booked in to have my gall bladder removed and a full hysterectomy at the same . It turned out that the pelvic mass was large fibroids and nothing sinister in sight . I hope all is well for OP 💐

During my cesarean I had to have an emergency appendix removal as it was full to bursting of cancerous cells. Had to have a follow up colonoscopy to check there was nothing worrying. There wasn't.

Since then I try and max out the roughage in my diet!

It turned out to be migraines. A rare type, but still... migraines.

Migraines can be scary as hell! The first time I had one I thought I had meningitis as I couldn’t look at the light, couldn’t move my head and felt like throwing up. Like an idiot, I went to bed to see if it got better. Thank goodness it wasn’t anything serious.

I started shaking a lot and was convinced I had Parkinson's. After a lot of testing, 'maybe it's anxiety' and trial and error we found out it was my SSRIs. Had been on them for ages, but was possibly triggered by anaemia. I came off them (slowly) and eventually the shaking stopped. Was stupid enough to try another one 6 months later

In my early 20s, had upper right quadrant pains... liver area. Was utterly convinced I had liver cancer. I wasted 2 years of my life going to and from GP, getting all sorts of tests done. I was told.. sometimes you just have pains and they mean nothing.
It is so easy to lose time and energy to health anxiety.

SusannaMoody I also had that, was scary but they got it in time and nothing since 🙏🏼

Not exactly me, but when I was 14/15 I started fainting a lot and getting migraines, and my dad totally persuaded himself I must have a brain tumour and wasn't long for this world. I ... just had migraines.

I can't mock him too much as I'm a terrible hypochondriac (I try very hard to keep it in my head and not trouble anyone else, let alone the very busy NHS!). But I had the fear of god put into me at the time, as he made it very clear he expected me to die in the near future.

I had extreme dizziness and vertigo. Very debilitating. Also accompanied by palpitations and blackouts. I developed health anxiety during that period and was investigated for all sorts; initially labyrinthitis and inner ear issues, then MS, brain issues.

After 4 years I saw a specialist neurologist and it turns out I suffer from vestibular migraines. I have managed them very well and feel almost completely normal with no medication at all.