Hypochondria

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Anyone else here a fricken Hypochondriac? I thought I've had cancer about 10 times and now I recently freaked out about AIDS... but I'm healthy as phuck.

sounds really familiar to me. I am healthy as well but think i could always have something. If i do get sick, i dont usually know what to do about it. I did have a biopsy once, and it sent me into orbit just being nervous about the results. No cancer.... thank goodness.

I don't know if I am a hypochondriac, but I always worry that doctors perceive me to be one. This is probably irrational, but I know that at least some of them pick up on my anxiety about being there, and treat me like I'm a kid. Plus, have you ever noticed the phenomenon when you decide to make a doctor's appointment because you have a 102 fever and a bad cough, but when you show up at the doctor's 2 hours later, your temperature has magically lowered, and your fever is much better? I think *that's* why I worry they think I'm a hypochondriac.

Yup Ive been paranoid about that s**t all my life. I feel so stupid in the end when it turns out everythings fine

I rmeember one day I woke up and discovered I had shed hair, I was scared and thought I might be dying, but that was years ago and I went to my mother; she said it was nothing, I never went to a doctor or anything and nothing happened to me, so I guess I'm not really a hypochondriac; I just had a hypochondriac episode.

yes I get obsessive about my own health

It isn't exactly hypochondria, but I tend to obsess over things. It isn't fear of getting sick as much as being annoyed and bothered by my bodily conditions and imperfections. I have mild back pain all the time from a spine condition and I get really upset over it whenever I'm depressed. I also have a pilonidal cyst that never healed properly after surgery. I don't want to have surgery again because it was such a pain. I also get upset about having fillings and hate people who never get cavities because they were genetically blessed. I know there's people with much worse problems, but I still envy people who don't have my particular problems. I'm only 27 and I already dread getting older and having more crap go wrong.

I thought I had either ball cancer or a rare std once, but I found out it was just a pimple. At least I got to have an ultrasound on my nads by a hot nurse.

Several years ago I was still terribly afraid that one day I could become blind or have an appendicitis

thats never really happend to me, although wheni lived with my stepdad i thought when he made dinner that he was going to put poison in it and kill me

Yeah, I've always been convinced I had something potentially fatal. Here's an interesting twist to that. I finally became convinced I was just a healthy hypochondriac. About a year later, I was diagnosed with a potentially fatal illness. I recovered. Now I realize no amount of worry will prevent it, so why bother? If something happens, I'll cross that bridge when I mist. In the mean time, I just use my head, avoid stupid risks, practice good health habits and rest in knowing I've done all I can.

HydroPurity, you are hilarious

I have found a lump on my back a couple of times think its a lump of skin cancer, go to the doctors and it turns out its nothing to worry about and they give me a tube of cream to deal with it.

Hi! I am an extreme hypochondriac. I worry 24-7 about my health, especially about the likelihood of getting cancer, and over death. Sorry!! !! !! !

Flakey insists I am a hypochondriac for thinking I might have AS...and said the same thing about ADD (prior to my diagnosis)....He has claimed in the past that all I really have is "low self eteem"
...To which I respond...."where do you think my low self esteem comes from, and how does it explain all my sensory issues and whatnot?....etc....(It is a subject of a wee bit of frustration between us)

Anywhoo..I am not much of a hypochondriac these days (unless I am in denial and what Flakey says is true)....but when I was young....I was a super hypochondriac....and was constantly going to the doctor for maladies that the doctor would always say were stress related...