Developed health anxiety out of the blue

[jblue2018]

Hello everyone

I’m struggling. Until 2 weeks ago I was swimming along merrily in my happy life. I am very lucky to have a lot of love and happiness in my life. Out of no where I have been hit by crippling health anxiety , weirdly not about Covid though. I am worrying about the following things :

• getting an illness which will cause me to die and leave my baby daughter
• having a brain tumour as I’ve been having headaches
• I am also so worried about this sudden on set of anxiety and if it could be caused by an illness. I am 30 now but in my mid 20s I used occasional cannabis and cocaine & MDMA once or maybe twice on a night out. Is it possible for this to be affecting my brain years later?

Has anyone got any advice for dealing with this? I feel sick all the time :(

Sorry, no advice but welcome to the world of anxiety... Mine also kicked off after the birth of my first child, he is 11 now and I get worse with every passing year. I have general anxiety with some health anxiety in on it. I think hormones play a part as to how bad I am any given week. I've resisted medication so far as I feel it probably causes more problems than it solves in a lot of cases. I'm about to start seeing a private therapist in the hope it'll give be some better coping strategies. So sorry you are feeling like this. I recommend you speak to someone sooner rather than later.

I can relate to this too, mine has come on in the last month (not worried about Covid at all) and spend all day googling every little niggle. It's awful isn't it?
Contrarily I'm also scared to go and get the little niggles looked at, though I did pluck up courage to go for a gynae check (that was when I was convinced I had ovary problems- I don't)

Thank you for the replies. It’s horrendous!! I will call my GP next week but they’re not doing any face to face appointments at all which I think is bad :(