HELP, health anxiety/obsession

Hello everyone,

I need help. I'm convinced I have Lyme disease and have becomed pbsessed with the idea of having it. I have a lot of physical symptoms and they vould all be explained by lyme disease... or by my particular history of health anxiety/severe generalized anxiety.

All the doctors think there is a very low risk of me having it, but i cant stop obsessing over it. Its ruining my life.

Here is my story...

The thing is, I had bariatric surgery 4 years ago and lost 130 lbs… which has a huge impact on a body and could explain some symptoms. And i have a long history of anxiety.

My major symptoms started 1 year ago when i was in my last year of law school. I started getting confused/disoriented. Memory loss, trouble saying what I wanted to say. Trouble concentrating. I started to suspect I had a neurological disorder, so i went for blood tests, 2 MRI, a eeg and a neurological assessment (neuropsy test by a professional). ALL came back normal. I was referred to an endocrinologist and a pneumologist because they tought i maybe had sleep apnea. It was inconclusive (I even slept with a CPAP for 8 months without any changes in my sleep quality). Pneumologist tested for lyme but it was negative.

Then, last summer, with all of this going on, i had to stop working at a big law firm, because i was too tired and confused/disoriented (i starting getting lost in the office…) I felt like i had alzheimer…at 25.

Fast forward one year, I just passed the bar. It was super hard with all my symptoms, but still did it. And now i started working again and I feel like my symptoms are worse/coming back.

My symptoms are:
Havent had my period for 100 days now (didn’t have my period for 1 year) - maybe due to stress/weight loss.
Extreme confusion/disorientation
fatigue/lethargy.
I am always cold.
Muscle weakness, weird muscle feeling, they feel ‘’heavy’’ and contracted.
no energy
wake up tired and it’s really hard to get out of bed.
unable to concentrate.
Poor blood circulation / tingling feeling in lower extremities.
Hypoglycemia
I sometimes wake up and my face is puffy / puffy eyelids.
trouble spelling, change in vocabulary etc. EX: i want to say table, i say chair.
Weird internal tremors (like earthquake)



I dont have an actual part of my body that ‘’hurts’’, no joint pain etc. I just have a hard time explaining my symptoms. And no doctor can help (and i can understand because of my anxiety and all the tests that came back negative). My doctors are actually amazing, but there is so much they can do. My psychiatrist says it’s hypochondria and it might just be. But there is a little voice in my head saying that its not normal to be so tired and have so many ‘’neurological’’ issues at my age.

I never had any tick or rash. Never actually been in a forest or anywhere that has ticks. The only thing i can think of is I passed 6 months in Europe while studying and maybe while I was travelling, I could have been to a place where ticks are present. But then again, unsure.

I was tested for EVERYTHING, All the results are negative.. im
Basically "healthy" ..

Anyways... i just want to know if anyone else out there is obsessed with a certain illness and if there is hope... can severe anxiety cause all these symptoms? Could it really be all somatic?

Thanks

Ems

Try EFT if you're not yet trying it. look up on Youtube how to do it yourself.

Also I recommend you to take Fish Oil supplement, your brain need energy food, take 6 capsules/day minimum.

Good luck, I pray for your recovery and have a healthy body.

I'm ex-anxiety/panic disorder sufferer.

~pardon my English.