health anxiety re brain tumour :(

[zazzabeans]

I suffer with bad health anxiety, I go through really bad phases.
Last Aug I started getting weird pressure in my head alongside feelings of depersonalisation, tingling c, I went to a&e twice and my docs 5 times from Aug-Dec, I eventually got referred for a cat scan on my brain which I had in Jan this year, results were fine and the neurologist said it sounded like hemiplegic migraines, which sounded plausible. The head feelings subsided a lot after this with only the littlest twinge now and then.
Fast forward to this week and I don't know what is happening anymore, started off as shooting pains in my left head-like before, only this time it feels different as the pain is more or less continuous around my temple and various places on my left side of head. I also have tingling which I thought was in the right hand only but I think its happening in the left also.
the pain isn't a major pain on a scale of 1-10 its about a 2-3.
Last night in bed, I was suffering from short term memory loss , thinking about things then not remembering seconds later, I have hardly slept, now I don't know if it is because im more aware of the symptoms of a bt after googling and I am just looking for these things, i know the brain is a powerful thing and feeds off anxiety.
both my hands and feet are cold and I feel sick this morning- another sign. i keep doing various strength tests on myself as that what they did in a&e and testing my reflexes.
I did go to the opticians yesterday for an eye test-all fine there.
i am really scared that i have a bt, i have 3 lovely children that need me, my husband isn't very supportive as he has seen me like this loads of times and never knows what to say, he is rather laid back.
im scared :(

I know it doesn't help (because my husband has severe health anxiety - the only thing that helps him is sertraline) but I have a pituitary tumour ("brain" tumour) and I can tell you that if you did have one it would have absolutely have showed up by now. Mine was tiny when they first found it - 2mm approximately and it showed up clearly on the mri and other scans I had. Also my blood tests were all over the place AND my optician picked up on it.

Luckily my tumour is managed by medication and I am doing fine. I didn't have any symptoms at all.

I would say that you have migraines. But I'm not a gp. Have they offered you any medication for the anxiety or migraines?

sorry to hear of yours and your husbands illnesses , i did have a brain scan back in jan, but what if the brain tumour wasn't there then, i keep thinking its a fast growing one.
medication wise- i have tried various ones and put on weight and suffered with insomnia so decided against it.
I havnt seen the gp re my head since the brain scan as the head feelings had disappeared around the time of the scan.

I have posted on your other thread. You are not alone with health anxiety. I have mine well under control now but remember how awful it was.

I had this , didnt get as far as the scan but my GP laughed when I told him I thought I had brain tumour , I've since thought I've had breast cancer , all clear , now I think I have lymphoma :-/

Hi!

I have just 'had' a brain tumour/degenerative brain disease too (severe HA sufferer here).

CAT scan clear, bloods clear...now I 'have' severe mental illness/arm cancer only recently 'recovered' from ME too after tingling arm/foot (that 'could have' also been ovarian cancer.)

If you didn't laugh you'd cry. HA is horrendous.

It's horrible and I'm not sure what the answer is.

there is an ongoing thread where some of us health anxiety sufferers chat. If you think it would help to chat with others who understand how you feel, there are many sympathetic ears there. I'll post a link.

here

Thanks Treacle x

Don;t know if its any help or if you are now on other thread but I get all those symptoms with my migrainesx