I have health anxiety and tend towards avoiding doctors due to a combination of a fear I'm seriously ill and a fear of being labelled a time wasting attention seeker. I'm rubbish at knowing whether to see my gp or not.
For years, I've had numbness in the side of one of my big toes, stiffness in my ankle and sometimes tingling in the top of my foot when I run.
For about eight months, I've had a patch of partial numbness about the size of my fist in the centre of the very bottom of my back/top of my bum.
Past few months, I've had on/off pain in my legs. Sometimes it's sharp pains in my feet and ankles. Sometimes it's aching in my lower legs or hips. Sometimes I feel like I'm putting my weight on my legs unevenly. Sometimes it's like a pinching in my lower back when I bend it with a feeling like it's swollen. It's irritating but it's all very mild pain.
Is it worth seeing a doctor for those symptoms? Can anybody tell me what they're likely to do if I do go?