Something new almost every day

I'm always worried about something. As soon as I stop worrying about whatever it is I suddenly begin worrying about something else. This seems to be a daily thing for me recently. Why do new symptoms keep popping up? I just don't get it. Yesterday it was spots in my vision, palpitations, and other small things. I go to bed feeling ok and then wake up with anxiety and now I'm worried about a lump/bruise that randomly turned up on my lower back, pain in my head, weird feeling in my chest.. And I'm sure tomorrow it will be something else. It's exhausting and ridiculous!

Can anyone relate to this?

Unfortunately, I think almost all of us relate. When we have anxiety we become super sensitized to all the inner workings of our body. This is what starts the vicious panic cycle that most of us seem to have. Until we become unsensitized to these feeling, we tend to stay in the cycle. It sucks! With my own experience, I have mostly a hard time breathing. But I also have had terrible tension headaches that start in my shoulder, go through my neck and end up behind my left ear (leading me to believe I had an aneurysm or tumor, of course). Sometimes just shooting pains here and there, which of course were cancer.

But luckily this is not an incurable disorder, though at times it might feel like it. There are coping skills, medication, exercise and other things that can help us through this hard time. I have had to really improve on my patience, because I know that rushing recovery is going to make me feel worse.

I hope you feel better soon!

Yep, me too. It seems like there's something new every day.

Yes I can totally relate!! I get a paper cut and next thing ya know I'm worried about the flesh eating virus. Paper cut heals and I start obsessing about if a mole I have is changing. Mole checks out alright and I think I'm having a heart attack, no wait, I worked out last night and my chest is just sore from dumbbell flies. It's an exhausting vicious circle, the process of constantly scanning the body for problems. An exercise that I have begun to practice at least once a day is giving myself permission to let go of ALL my worries for a few minutes. I relax all my muscles, breath and just let go. It helps.