I think I have Health Anxiety and I'm not sure how to help myself and stop googling for reassurance! I'm 38, no kids and currently living with parents as rent got too much in London. I feel like I have no control.
I think it's gotten worst since my Dad had a stroke in January and I had to call the ambulance (he's fine now but it was traumatic). My 'symptoms' started one week later.
I have had some numbness in my thumb, itchy feet and the occasional stabbing pain in foot. The more I worry, the more I 'notice' or am hypersensitive to feelings in my body. I am now convinced I have MS (my friend's Mum died of it) as every time I google the symptoms that comes up and my eyes are drawn to it.
I feel like I'm going a bit mad and can't work it if my anxiety is causing some phantom feelings or making them worst. Or if this is for real and I have something bad. I wake up and panic and then convince myself I'm dying and even plan my own bloody funeral!
Sorry didn't know where else to turn to - I just feel quite alone with this and too scared to make a doctors appointment in case it's something bad.