Am I over worrying here ? Headaches / tumour etc

[amioverworrying]

Hi, I’m really struggling with health anxiety I think. As soon as something is even slightly wrong, I can’t help but blow it out of all proportion.

last year it was stomach pains for which I paid hundreds to have a scan for and was fine.

at the moment it’s headaches. I have always suffered from migraines ( I also suffer from multiple sclerosis ). I had some quiet periods, but recently, they’ve ramped up again.

I am also finding that I do need a lot of sleep over the last 6 months ( around 8-9 hours a night ). Whereas I used to be an insomniac, which also wasn’t ideal.

anyhow I called the doctor yesterday explaining and he wants me to have a brain scan. I had my last scan 7 months ago ( just usual yearly MS scan ) and I was fine.

I don’t have any neurological symptoms. I’m just finding that I’m having migraines more frequently and headaches that last a while sometimes. I’m also finding a correlation of spending too much time in bed and it causing headaches sometimes.

I didn’t expect the doc to suggest a brain scan and I’m now terrified I have a brain tumour. I literally can’t eat.

can someone help me please ? How can I stop being this way ? It really takes it out of me and I can’t focus on anything else.

I have healthy anxiety and I’ve just started therapy. It is exhausting. The only reprieve I had was when I had PND and I wanted to die, it was a bit of a relief to remove the constant anxiety.

My therapist has said:

1. it can be linked to OCD (if you look at the OCD cycle it’s very similar to what I do - obsession, anxiety, compulsion and relief)
2. it can strike you worse when you have depression, so any depressive thoughts can make your mind darker.
3. medication can help (antidepressants etc)

My health anxiety is too bad that I am unwilling to accept the any medication, I’m worried it will cause cancer or something. But I am trying to get there.

Hope it works out for you. It’s not easy!