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Having a significant long term medical condition and worrying about everything else...

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Bluesheep8 · 06/08/2018 13:07

Is anyone else like this? I was diagnosed with MS almost 20 years ago and had some really debilitating sensory relapses over the first few years but since then have been well, work full time etc and no one would ever know I have ms unless I told them (which I don't tend to) and I have never been prescribed any drugs. anyway, I seem to have health anxiety around every other tiny little thing healthwise. For example, I burnt my wrist on the oven shelf on Friday and am frantic that it's going to get infected. I pulled a muscle kneeling down awkwardly last week and was convinced that the muscle was torn and was bleeding inside. Literally every tiny thing is built up into a huge anxious worry and yet I don't give having an as yet incurable neurological disease (apologies to others who have it but I need to give the comparison) a second thought...is anyone else like this?

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duckyfuzzz · 06/08/2018 20:10

I'm a complete hyperchondriac. Take now, sudden wave of real tiredness/weakness. But I can't just be tired or hot, there's something wrong.
A headache - I start mentally questioning: did it strike? How's my vision? Am I nauseous?
Everything my mind catastrophises before I've had the chance to rationalise.

Bluesheep8 · 07/08/2018 08:22

duckyfuzz I'm exactly like that with minor things and yet I don't worry about having MS at all, it's really strange. Even called into a pharmacy yesterday to have my cooker burn looked at as I had convinced myself it was going to cause an infection. Naturally all the anxiety around things like this just makes everything worse.

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