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Strange temple pain and health anxiety, would you get it checked?

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PurpleDiamond34 · 02/05/2026 15:33

I'm convinced I've got an unruptured brain aneurysm and I'm going mad with worry. Ive been having a very strange odd pain in my right temple, like a sharp electric shock and it also feels bruised to touch and juts feels how you would if you had a bad bruise. But obvs there is no bruise there. It extends to my brow bone and around my eye. It's unlike any kind of headache I've had before. It's intermittent but keeps coming periodically.

I have posted before about being health anxious, I've been working really hard with therapy and a medication change to help me with my anxiety, but I don't feel like this is anxiety this time. I'm genuinely worried it is what I think not is and terrified I'm gonna drop dead.

My ex partner (kids dad) who I live with has had me in years, berating me and telling me he won't look after our son so I can go get checked out, shouting at me and just being horrible.

I don't know what to do with myself. What if this time it's serious.

Any advice on what it could be? Just to calm me the hell down.

OP posts:
decorationday · 02/05/2026 15:42

Why do you not think it's healthy anxiety when it's manifesting exactly like health anxiety?

How did you even come up with "unruptured brain aneurysm" as a possibility in the first place?

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