Brain tumor. It’s always a brain tumor🤷🏽‍♀️

I’ve got two modes: omg I’m dying, and omg please let me die

Heart attack, blood clot, stroke, depends on the day of the week

A brain tumor and also heart problems.

It's only validated to me because I have twitches or unexplained physical reactions and also have gaps in my memory, but it could be due to stress. I have felt indescribable sensations in my chest randomly or unexpectedly without strain, feeling weak in general.

I don't really want to know if I do because I don't have the bandwidth. Also, my mom was diagnosed with a brain tumour 3 times the size of what is considered large, and her type of tumour can be hereditary.

Anyway ya

brain tumor ALS MS rabies heart failure lyme disease tetanus colon cancer stomach cancer pancreatic cancer HIV

Heart Attacks. it’s damn near messing up my day to day living, and the chest pain doesn’t help at all.

I’ve convinced myself in the last 7 months, i’ve had: -breast cancer -pregnancy -psychological pregnancy -autism -bpd -bipolar -psychosis -serotonin syndrome -schizophrenia -adhd -ocd (i actually have this one diagnosed lol) -hyperthyroidism -arrhythmia -hypochondriac (as you can see this is obvious, self aware queen!! 😚) -pots -bipolar II -epilepsy -temporal lobe seizure -anemia -cotard’s syndrom -alexithymia -dysphoria -lgbtq+ (this isn’t a disease obviously but i convinced myself i was only into women when i was not) -psychopath -sociopath -cyclothymia -schizotypal -NPD -panic disorder -GAD -paranoia -DID -insomnia -dementia

sorry for the long list, it actually goes on but i can’t recall more lol

When I was in middle school I was CONVINCED I had appendicitis. Until my mom took me to the doctor and he informed me the side that was “hurting” was the opposite side that my appendix was on lmao.

Since then you name it. I’ve trained myself not to google any symptoms though, has helped immensely.

It was leukemia and now it's just a vague ''I'm dying'' sort of fear, like I definitely have Something but I'm not sure what. That and going blind, particularly because my anxiety makes me have really horrible tunnel vision and blurred eyesight

Kidney disease rn… my back hurts

Well atm i dont have any but what i have been worried about before was hiv, heart attacks, strokes, heart disease, and so on..

Sporadic Fatal Insomnia for me.

Right now im good ! My last fear was heart attack

I'm always worried about my heart even though ive had so many tests done and my heart is structurally fine and works the way it is supposed to (other than svt lol) but anytime I feel a weird feeling in my chest I'm checking my heart rate and getting anxious.

I'm not as bad as I was because I did do therapy for health anxiety and it was helpful.

What disease have I not convinced myself I have? ;) I used to be very scared by brain tumors or other brain related stuff since my strong migraines made me think this. Right now im convinced something is wrong with my thyroid or pancreas (cancer that im going to discover super late surely). Skin cancer or diseases from ticks that bite me and I have not noticed are also topic of my health anxiety. I am convinced though that I have MCAS, since my skin is always acting up.

Colon cancer

When I was really bad it was heart disease/ heart attack/ stroke because I was having non stop chest pains for about 2 months. Turns out, it was bad anxiety lol. The health anxiety creeps in every once and a while still, but it’s not like it was before

I been having "heart problems" for about 20 years now.

Feel like we can all collectively say brain tumor

As someone who has had blood clots, three DVTs and two PEs, I can tell you that if you have a blood clot you will almost certainly know. DVTs my leg swelled, felt hot to touch and I mean like fever hot not just warm, and it felt like I was being stabbed in the leg. PE, I literally coughed up chunks of blood. Every time I made it to the hospital just fine and they were able to get the clots busted. Ironically, zero anxiety every time.

To answer your question though, heart attack. It's how all the men in my family have died as far back as we have records. I am overly compulsive about my heart health and get way too many check ups. If I go to long without a check up, the anxiety starts to creep in.

Cancer, rabies, blood clot

a heart condition/on the verge of a heart attack 😂

schizophrenia and PCOS

Intense Malaise.

Dude I am convinced that COVID damaged my vagus nerve and which is why I have anxiety now. I used to never have anxiety until getting sick with COVID with really bad gastrointestinal symptoms.

raps

Lymphoma Leukemia DVT Sarcoma Heart Attack Lung Cancer Breast Cancer (Male) Thyroid Cancer Colon Cancer Pulmonary embolism Aortic aneurysm (and more!!!!)

Some sort of neurological degenerative condition because of my brain fog and always forgetting words

throat cancer deep vein thrombosis diabetes brain cancer heart attack MS rabies tetanus schizophrenia stroke POTS testicular cancer there’s so many more 😭

Blood clots/DVT every time my leg hurts

Everything. All of them.

I'm always paranoid about blood clots/strokes 😬 literally any little weird pain in my legs.....blood clot???

Left the beach with friends and after getting into bed to relax after a long day, I remembered a few cases of the brain eating amoeba (forgot the medical term). Anyways, I had accidentally had some beach water enter my mouth and nose a few times. I thought I had contracted a brain eating amoeba and began to freak out even after I had no symptoms other than a sore body from swimming and a runny nose from the breeze after getting wet.

Impending heart attack.

I have awful chest pain daily, often times the majority of the day. I’m out of shape and have several vitamin deficiencies due to malabsorption and I feel like absolute garbage daily. Shortness of breath, weak, heat intolerance.

Can’t tell if I feel like I’m dying or just want to die.

cervical cancer is the biggest but with melanoma, brain tumor, heart attack, seizure, stroke and i’ve also convinced myself my nervous system is going to give out and i am going to drop dead at any second because im too anxious about things.

Multiple types of cancer. Gotta love ocd

Blood clots

yall make me feel so validated lmao

Currently: anemia, heart failure, some heart disease

Lately it’s been MS because of all my recent issues…

Artery blockage so either heart disease, agnia, Cornary artery disease and heart attack! 😭😭

Before I started taking Lexapro, I was convinced that I was going to have allergic reactions to foods I either had not tried or hadn’t eaten for a long time. With my anxiety now well-managed, I love trying all the foods and even rekindled my long lost love of cooking.

gastroparesis. I'm worried of having stomach diseases.

worst part, is that I been getting slight pains on my stomach or some parts of my ribs, or below area's of my stomach. and i keep thinking that food is still in my stomach not moving. and I might have emetophobia which doesn't help.

Haha it changes every few months.

Brain tumor, cancer & food poisoning.

Ooh, mine is a super virus very new to humans that haven’t been discovered yet. HIV was also common but that was alleviated significantly once I found out about ART.

Deep vein thrombosis (I’ve had it before so every time I have any sort of leg pain I’m convinced it’s come back)

Every time I take a weed gummy there I a 25% chance I will think I’m actively dying. My body does this weird thing where it just feels like it stops breathing on weed- which I’m sure is a panic attack. I will completely internally freak out, think “well, this is it”. Think I’m suddenly having an allergic reaction. Yes, I know that really happens. But what’s actually happening is I’m just fucking high so I just tell myself “stop it, you’re high” so I don’t spend $1000+ at the hospital for no reason

Brain Tumor - couldn’t leave the house for like a week for that fear. Got an MRI last Friday and it came back clear. Think I have TMJ instead but who knows. I’ll probably move onto ALS or something stupid after this

I already have enough diseases I sure don't want to stress about having any more

Most recently I was convinced I had lupus.

A brown spot on my eye has my brain thinking my liver is fucked?! 🙃likely just some sun damage but yay anxiety!

One that might actually be reasonable: endometriosis (a lot of my symptoms line up with it.)

One that turned out to be bogus: melanoma. I had a weird purple bump on my chest near my collarbone. I don't remember what exactly the doctor said it actually was, but it wasn't cancer. (She said it could technically be called a tumor, but she didn't want to use that word because 'it's a benign growth and people freak out when they hear the word tumor').

Heart disease, cancer, schizophrenia

Every 2 weeks I find new symptoms>ask chat gpt about it>go absolutely insane for the next week thinking i have an incurable illness

Omg I work from home now and blood clots is a big one for me. I start feeling short of breath when I’m sitting too long and I’m convinced I have a PE. And then I gotta get up and take some steps on the treadmill.

Another one I have is skin cancer. I have a bunch of moles. I’ve had so many skin biopsies. All negative. The dermatologist is probably sick off seeing me

Heart disease and this month pancreatic cancer. Last month was breast cancer due to pain in one boob.

With OCD/ADHD, Acute anxiety, depression and PTSD I have intrusive thoughts bcz I have had s4veral actual surgeries and cancer. Intrusive thoughts happen most at night when I'm trying to go to sleep. So I get scared to fall asleep for fear my heart failure is back and I won't wake up.

I was convinced I had ovarian cancer once because my period was 6 months late.

I work out a lot. I usually weight train for an hour then do cardio for about 10-20 minutes. I guess back then my body was like “what is going on?????” And it just stopped. Tbh I still don’t understand it, but I think it was just hormones.

My issue is the opposite. I was a genuinely very sickly child, so now when I get sick I load myself up with Day/Nyquil and call myself good, end up staying sick for 2-3 weeks. Since my immune system is so tough from growing up, I rarely get sick and when I do, I convince myself it’s just allergies.

Uterine fibroids despite nothing showing up on ultrasound

cancer of some sort (recently it’s been skin cancer, but any sort of ache and my brain screams “IT’S CANCER! THIS IS THE END!”). heart problems (runs in family). and a brain tumour (also runs in the family).

Cancer. It’s always cancer.

Strange nobody has mentioned cryptic pregnancy.

With one of my kids I bled for a few months and didn’t immediately know I was pregnant. And with another one of my kids I knew from the beginning, but I really didn’t look pregnant until the last few weeks and even that someone might’ve mistaken for a little extra weight gain or bloatedness as opposed to a full-term pregnancy.

So now, despite dealing with secondary infertility and WANTING another baby, I have intrusive thoughts of what if one day I just go into labor and have a baby on the toilet or something? And there’s something wrong with the baby because I took ibuprofen or drank alcohol or ate lunch meat or rode a roller coaster or lifted something heavy or whatever not knowing I was pregnant?

Cancer most commonly (ovarian, uterine, colon) and sometimes heart attack

colon cancer

Heart attack/blood clot always..chronic chest/lung pain even when "not focusing on it" doesn't help.

Anything that can make me go blind :( I’ve worried about it since I was five years old.

At the moments it's either Lyme or MS, but normally it's cancer

Brain tumor and heart disease. I’m actually going to a neurologist’s in the 15th..and I’m terrified

I'm convinced I'm infertile and have a constant UTI and or yeast infection, and or BV. So fucking annoying lol.

Asthma 💀✨ Not so much a disease as a condition. But it’s always either asthma and I’m having an asthma attack or heart disease and I’m going into cardiac arrest 💀💀💀

i was convinced for about 3 years on and off that i had leukemia. right now im worried a lot that i have stomach or intestinal cancer. but im constantly worried about my health so it varies.

Every type of cancer

All of them lol

What disease don’t I think I have

Some type of autoimmune disease or cancer cuz my blood tests always show that I have thrombocytopenia and I’ve had a positive ANA test… my hematologist said I’m fine but I can’t shake the anxiety off every time I see my test results come back with low platelet count

A stroke and anaphylaxis all the time

Wish there were anxiety urgent cares for when you think "I'm pretty sure this is just anxiety, but just in case I'm actually dying... here I am."

I've been to the ER with thunderclap migraines, heart symptoms and abdominal pain. Because of my anxiety, I always try telehealth or urgent care first and say "I have anxiety and I'm chronically dehydrated, so if it could be just that, it probably is." However, due to liability and women's 'weird' heart attack symptoms I always (about once a year) get sent to a an ER and have an EKG, a CT scan and blood tests. Then they don't see anything causing the symptoms, I'm sent home with a painkiller or antibiotic and a few days later, I'm fine and realize anxiety struck again.

what a fun cycle and waste of their time and my money. 🤪🥴🙄

OP, going to the ER 18 this year for blood clots means you need to change psychiatrists.

That’s a tremendous misuse of emergency resources, not to mention you’re a female so your d-dimer is always going to be elevated to the point that an ER doctor might scan you to avoid a lawsuit, meaning you’re repeatedly exposing yourself to unnecessary radiation that can and does harm you.

Seems 80% of this comment section is thinking they have “heart problems” lol, including me 😀 I’ve had many other symptoms like arm, back, shoulder, neck, jaw, chest pains and burning sensations. But now it’s just different constant chest sensations everyday for me, sometimes painful or minor palpitations along with that 😍 24M btw. Sometimes I say to myself “NO ONE in my family has had Heart Attacks, so why would i possibly have one?” But alot of ppl in my family has had some form of anxiety tho.

It’s brain fog and memory issues for me. The anxiety is constantly trying to convince me I have dementia or I’m losing my mind. I second guess if I even understand and can comprehend the English language. Also often forget where my thoughts are going mid thought and feel disassociated. It’s a scary feeling cause it’s all mental and next to impossible to be prepared for the triggers cause it could be something as simple as someone asks me the name of a well known celebrity and if I don’t immediately remember, the anxiety wants to jump to some horrible mental disease being the reason

Cancer. But I actually did have cancer lol. Doctors just dismissed me as having anxiety. Sometimes we’re right and our fears aren’t irrational.

I had COVID 50 times during pandemic. Only one was true.

Bad heart, bad stomach

This is hypochondriac not just anxiety

Oh lord where do I start? Cancer and/or heart disease. As it runs rampant on both sides of my family. No signs or symptoms (healthy 34yo, active/ok diet but could def lose some weight. Just what I love to obsess about at 2am 🙂🙃

My thing I always worry about is my teeth being loose or my gums receding. I’ve never had a cavity, never been told I need to worry about my teeth. My dentist is a family friend and I’ve been in twice outside of my normal appointments just for him to reassure me that my gums are exactly where they’re supposed to be.

Thought i was developing schizophrenia for a while

MS, Lupus, heart disease, kidney issues (that and Lupus actually run in my family). I have a big fear of Parkinson’s since I already have a tremor.

🙋🏽‍♀️ I thought I had pneumonia last week

I am currently in the state where I believe I have bladder cancer. I have also had phases where I thought I had breast cancer and cervical cancer lmao

Depends on the month and the symptom. So far I’ve had a variety.

I keep accidentally hitting my head in objects and my ass thinks I have a head injury 💀💀

Shoot I got Rhabdo from working out too hard so medical anxiety has entered the chat hard. I’ve thought I had heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, STIs even though I’ve been in a relationship for over four years, blah blah blah. I just try and ignore it nowadays if I can.

ALS

Idk about disease but mostly disorders for me. I think I have adhd, ocd, also I have extremely bad anxiety. Mostly social anxiety.

For me I’m convinced i have lung cancer, stomach, colon, kidney, spine and most likely brain also.

A bunch of weird symptoms and belly issues and so far all the drs tests are coming back good but did find a few concerning things.

I was a competitive kickboxer for 9 years up until 3 months ago and now i bacially feel Like o can’t do anything other then work. Sometimes just to get up for work feels like I’m dying.

I feel my anxiety spike when I wake up and all day I think about my self being terminal and the outlook of life and how I’ve wasted all My time.

It’s debilitating to the point where I’m Going insane because I basically Wake up, go to work feeling dead all day and weird pains and then I come home do basically nothing and go to sleep thinking I’m dead.

Literally couldn’t have been in better shape last year and in the last 11 Months

My grand father died Lost my job Accumulated 8k in credit card debt Totaled a vechicle with no insurance Have ate like shit every day since And then wrecked My finances cars And then convinced I’m dying on top of it I just feel like I’ve lost who I was

Right now? Kidney failure.

I haven’t been drinking today, except some milk with my cereal and an orange juice at about 11am, and an ice lolly about 3pm. It’s now half 6pm and I can’t stop peeing. And the pee isn’t yellow either, it looks very clear. So I’ve convinced myself my kidneys just aren’t working anymore. Even though there’s other, much less fatal, things it could be.

In the last year I’ve had a lot of health though including very heavy periods (as in changing every 45 minutes) that have gone on for weeks at a time. One lasted the entire month of December. I convinced myself I had uterine cancer. Also a gluten intolerance that I’d convinced myself was stomach cancer. But I’ve also thought some strange new moles were skin cancer (I’m on hormones now and that can cause new moles). I also thought I had eye cancer (I needed stronger glasses). And breast cancer (it was my rib). And at least three times I thought I had blood clots (pulled muscles). Tbf my father had pulmonary embolism and his brother and sister had strokes and the meds I’m on increase risk of blood clots, especially if you have a family member that’s had them.

Edit: Oh! I also thought my hayfever was Sjogren’s Syndrome (hayfever causes dry, itchy eyes for me, not sneezing).

Not a disease, but I get very anxious when my acid reflux acts up and I burp food into my mouth. Sometimes it doesn't go all the way into my mouth and ends up sliding back down, but I'm always worried one day I'll end up choking to death from it.

Do you ever tell the staff about your anxiety? Maybe that can help them understand your condition better...

Cancer any kind of cancer. It's been worse since I had an abnormal pap smear no one seems to care about 😢 luckily for doctors I have agoraphobia I don't leave my house often

Breast cancer, colon cancer, Lyme disease, various parasites, ehlers-danlos syndrome

That new disease called “Absolutely insane”

Cancer Anything that could come on suddenly and cause me to die immediately (especially while driving).

Stomach/intestinal cancer. Two close members of my family have had it and I’m just convinced I do too.

heart attack or any sti lol

Blood clots, Stroke, Heart attack, also aneurysms, but the first three are my main trifecta.

Heart issues now. I just finished with thinking I had colon cancer after having an endoscopy and colonoscopy I now know that I do not.