Anyone else have a partner who is a hypercondriac. Headache = brain tumor

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Anyone else have a partner male or female that does this.
my boyfriend always has manflu, heart attack, stroke or a brain tumor (sp) he can often be found perusing the medical books looking for answers,and he always finds the worst answers, Whatever ailments anyone else has he obviouly has it much worse .He is healthy just the usual aches and pains stuff. What should i do with him?
should i ignore it or give him some tlc?

Tell him if it is that bad to go to the doctors.

dh always says he has arthritis whenever he gets an ache anywwhere.

I lose sympathy when I've heard it for the 693rd time.

No. Mine has genuine pains, but instead of taking a painkiller, he flings himself around all over the house wailing.

I have told him if he's noty ill enough for tablets, he's not ill enough for sympathy.

Yes.

Came home yesterday to find dp clutching his chest in a dramatic fashion.

" I think Im having a heart attack" he says

"describe the pain" I say- So he does.

He has indigestion, I suggest a Gaviscon tablet.

20 mins later his pain has gone.

" Should have had that tablet this morning" he says

I mean FGS. If its not one thing its another, He had a headache about 3 weeks ago and was comvinced he had some kind of bleed on the brain.

um... there is a MNer who's dh does indeed have a brain tumor, perhaps this is not the best title for a thread atm

Suzy, I was just about to post exactly the same thing.

Oh, the thread title is a bit unfortunate. But is does sum up exactly what your dp is feeling.

I was exactly the same. Any minor symptom was the big C. I was not worried about heart attacks/strokes etc, just the big C.
It got to the point where my obsessive worrying rules my life, and I became convinced I would be dead within a few years.

My fears were triggered by 4 people around me suffering from the big C and the little girl next door dying from leukaemia. At the same time I had a suspicious breast lump removed and tested.
So to me my fears were very real and reasonable.

In the end I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. I had 12 weeks of counselling and am still on AD's but trying to come off them. I feel miles better and am able to rationalise any fears I get about my health.

Get your partner to the GP - he may be being a hypochondriac but to him his symptoms are real. He does not need treatment for what he believes is ailing him, but get the anxiety and possible depression checked out.

my hubby has always been like this but after much nagging by myself he did go to doctors then hospital and he does in fact have a brain tumour.
i guess the only thing you can do is insist he goes to the doctors then the doctor can put his mind at rest.