hypochondria and anxiety

My name is Liam2002.  I only work part-time and I find that I have too much time on my hands.  In high school, I had mad heart palpitations and I developed hypochondria.  Currently, I have bad anxiety over an imaginary eye pain.  I feel that it is hard to fall asleep because of this eye pain.  This may sound crazy, but I cannot stop worrying about my eye. Does anyone else worry about real or imagined pain or discomfort that creates anxiety?  Mine is a mental health issue.

sorry to hear that liam. was having a twitching in right eye, so went to ophthalmologist...maybe you should go to one? that eased my anxiety a bit

I usually have triggers for my health anxiety / hypochondira. I have Crohn's Disease so that doesn't really help. But when I think something is wrong I tend to magnify it unnecessarily to a point where I will have real pain. The brain has a way of causing our body pain that otherwise wouldn't be there if we weren't stressing about it.

I had a particularly bad week a couple weeks ago. I put myself into a stressful situation and the body responded in kind, most notably a burning sensation across my entire arm. Now I've been dealing with anxiety for 3 years but never had that happen to me so I started what if and even worse, I googled.

Went to my Psychiatrist, got put on a new med, and as I started having better days my body stopped prepping me for fight or flight. The pain has completely disappeared now.

I had become a hypochondriac more in the past year. I've had anxiety for a Long time. I think a lot of us here have some sort of health anxiety. We have real symptoms that never get any real answers. This makes us more anxious and in turn brings on more symptoms..stick with this forum everyone is so supportive here. Good luck to you and hope you start to feel better.

The very best thing to do if you are worried about a certain health problem is see a doctor for assurance and peace of mind. The worst thing you can do is sit and fret and google symptoms.

The bad part of my hypochondria when it was bad, is that it didn't matter how many times my doctor told me I was fine, I still didn't believe it. She sent me to a neurologist, cardiologist, and anything else she could do. When my stomach was at it's worst, I had gone to the E.R. more than I wanted to with no answers at all..Always thinking they missed something, they had too...now though, I calm myself down with the fact that I had these same symptoms over and over, and nothing happened..it's so hard for us to believe that they can't give us a definite answer..