Worried if it's really lyme or something more sinister

Hi all, I should say that I am a hypochondriac and have health anxiety. I am very worried that what I may be going through is something more sinister than lyme but I am not sure. I looked up a bunch of things about cancer and heard that you wouldn't know if you had it and people getting misdiagnosed and doctors missing it and it not causing pain just dizziness and depersonalization and anxiety and stuff like that and those are all my symptoms pretty much.


I don't mean do be a pain or sound like a worry wort here but I have been to at least 5 doctors in the past 7 months. I know they don't know jack about lyme, that's obvious, but do you think if I had something like cancer going on they would be able to find it or spot it or maybe something would hint to it? Because I am freaking out about this.


I just fear that what I have may be something like cancer or something sinister because my symptoms are so abnormal that i feel it's not just lyme and it is something worse. I don't really have much pain but I have dizziness and anxiety and depersonalization along with some twitching and every now and than I wil get random headaches for a day, and overall my body and body parts just feel weird and un natural not normal like they used , also I just have the gut feeling that something worse may Be going on, some days I do and some days I don't actually.


I am just scared about all this, maybe I am going to far here, my symptoms aren't horrible but after reading those cancer sites and finding out that my main symptoms even though I think they aren't that bad could be cancer or something worse than lyme I am scared.

Should I just try to calm down for now and take re assurance in the fact that I saw 5 doctors and they certainly would have found cancer or something more sinister if that was the case? I know this isn't an anxiety forum so sorry for acting this way I just don't know what to do or think, I can't keep running from doctor to doctor worried about cancer and stuff when none of them can find anything aside from EBV. Aside from that they all say I have nothing just probably lyme symptoms or ebv symptoms but I still have that cancer worry, any input? I'm not sure what to do at this point. :/

Post Edited (Dolph ziggler fan) : 11/20/2014 2:19:53 AM (GMT-7)

I agree; treating for Lyme disease should answer your questions. It should also resolve a lot of your anxiety issues. It is hard to just say "oh all these symptoms are just Lyme," when they are so intense and bend your thinking.

Are you doing anything to help with your anxiety. There are medications both pharmacological and natural as well as meditation techniques that would help.

As difficult as it is you have to stop looking down the hole to the worst possible outcome. Instead, turn your mind to positive thoughts and your efforts to getting well.

^ Ha, yeah, I agree, Lyme is pretty sinister!

Dolph ziggler fan—
I hope you get some answers soon. If this forum knows one thing, it's the frustration and anxiety of waiting for answers This may not make you feel any better but for what it's worth…

Time and time again, I've read accounts by people who have suffered both—cancer and lyme treatments and so far I haven't come across anyone who has stated the chemo was worse. Maybe it's all relative.

At times I have been so confused about the "it's the lyme causing ______" statement because what's really happening is that the lyme & co-infections are causing damage and then your systems start to malfunction from the damage. Especially with respect to treatment, lyme & co is a multi-pronged approach because you not only have to kill the infection, you have to heal and repair from that treatment and you also have to repair the damage done to your systems—all over your body. It's utterly overwhelming.

Add on top of that, this world doesn't understand lyme—we lack the more developed funding mechanisms that feed education and health systems in support of cancer diagnosis and treatment and survivorship (while a wonderful, necessary thing—how sad it is that they exist in the first place—we've grown to focus on the more profitable treatment than prevention with good health and changes in our environment).

The general public, family and friends understand basic concepts of cancer and treatment and how scary it is—but not lyme & co. No, for us it's a private hell and constant battle from beginning to end. And on a more personal level, had my problem been cancer, I'd likely have been diagnosed long before lyme consumed 15+ years of my life.

I'm sure others probably would not agree but I'm not convinced which is the worse diagnosis or world to live in and I don't focus on that. I just know that this is my journey and in the end, I have a much better control over my health because I've been forced to and only good can come from that. And I'm living a much healthier lifestyle (now and likely for a lifetime) because the success of my treatment depends on it.

-p

Lyme is pretty dang sinister. I think people with Lyme are some of the sickest people on the planet. Cancer heart problems lyme... they all destroy your ability to live a normal life.

Don't even worry about it!! We all have anxiety and we totally get it. You're in the right place.

Oh... the illnesses/ diseases I have diagnosed myself with.... From pancoast tumour to parathyroid (not thyroid). For the parathyroid I even decided where I was having surgery - I was travelling to the US to a clinic where they only do that surgery. Pituitary tumour was another one. I am dead serious... I really thought I had one of those things.

That was before I thought I had ALS.

I was a basket case for many months.... Tears of joy when the WB came back positive.

Oh... And I have never been a hypochondriac... Before lyme symptoms I never went to the Dr. It sure messes with your head!!!

I think I have PTSD from all the worrying,,