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Posted 7/12/2015 8:59 AM (GMT 0)
Hey everyone I could really use some advice/reassurance. I suffer from terrible health anxiety and convince myself of a new illness every other week. I got jaw pain recently and of course started to google came across burning mouth syndrome. Well the following day tongue started tingling and now my whole mouth burns and I am convinced I have BMS. My mom has suffered with this for 4 years from anxiety and watching her has always subconsciously made me fear it. I don't know what to think. Have I developed BMS or just convinced myself i have it. Any advice r similiar stories. Its all I can think about and driving me mad confused
Posted 7/12/2015 9:54 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Hotdog13

Sorry to hear you are having these symptoms and suffering with health anxiety a lot of us here myself included have health anxiety so know how hard it is to deal with.

I would suggest making an appointment with your doctor and see what they say but I do feel it is your health anxiety that is causing the problem. Anxiety can cause all sorts of symptoms both physical and mental and if you are suffering with HA you become very in tune with your body and begin to notice things that others would not give a second glance. The most important thing to remember with HA is to not google your symptoms as all you are doing is feeding your HA and your symptoms will become worse.

The good news is lots can be done to help with anxiety such as taking medication and combining it with talking therapy such as CBT which is proven to get great results. Have a look at our resources thread for some useful links for self help for health anxiety and start to work at lowering your anxiety which can take some time but worth the effort.

Keep us posted.

Hibee
Posted 7/12/2015 10:06 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks hibee I am looking in to starting cbt in the near future. I am just so fed up with the constant struggle of having to tell myself in okay and this is just another symptom of my anxiety. Any new symptoms really frighten me and I convince myself it is serious even though somewhere in my busy mind i know its just another anxiety related illness. I become so fixated on my symptoms its all I can think of. I'm scared now I will have this burning sensation forever
I hate having health anxiety it interferes so much with life.
Posted 7/12/2015 10:12 AM (GMT 0)
Hi

I hear you HA can really take over your life if you let it I am just starting to get back in control of mine after having a tough time with it where I convinced myself I had all sorts of life threatening diseases. Your mind is a powerful tool and when you google your symptoms in an anxious state you can convince yourself you are having the symptoms you read about so my first bit of advice is to stop goggling your symptoms which I know is difficult but it really is a must.

I know things are hard right now but you can get through this and CBT will help you understand your anxiety and then teach you coping strategies.

Hibee
Posted 7/12/2015 10:42 AM (GMT 0)
I'm usually good at calming myself down and relaxing but things are stressful at the moment for me so I suppose that's why my anxiety is so bad. I know I have to stop Google I underestimate the power of the mind its amazing when e hear r see things its so was to convince ourselves that we have it too. I'm gonna try some relaxed breathing and distraction techniques.i hope these symptoms subside & I can work through my HA. Thanks for advice
Posted 7/12/2015 12:49 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Hotdog, You've already great advice from Hibee, and I agree with him totally. Just wanted to tell you that you are not alone, I recently in the last month have a burning mouth, although it has gone away in the past few days, I'm not sure what caused it and it was uncomfortable but I'm trying not to dwell in the what if's. You need to do the same, if it keeps bothering you by all means make a doctors appt.
Posted 7/12/2015 1:24 PM (GMT 0)
Hi AL well its so great to hear someone had it and its gone. I know I shouldn't but everything I google was saying it stays indefinitely and that was making me so much worse. I'm trying to ignore it but its so irritating its hard to distract from it. My mom has it 4 years & I feel I was always waiting for it. I suppose with HA we ate so hung up on every illness and for me then I just start obsessing about one thi g & fi d it hard to stop. Thanks for sharing ur experience it helps to know I'm not alone
Posted 7/12/2015 1:41 PM (GMT 0)
I found this in the symptom list of anxiety/panic attacks from our resources.

Somebody said...
Burning mouth, feeling like the inside of your mouth is burning, or tingling, or like pins and needles, or all of these together or at different times



So it very well could be anxiety, I know I have been under a ton more stress the past month then I usually am, so very well could of been anxiety in my case.
Posted 7/12/2015 2:58 PM (GMT 0)
Ya I'm sure its my anxiety as well & they r the symptoms in just scared they will never go away cos its so uncomfortable. I know I'm only feeding it with all this stress I'm hoping its a temporary side affect of the stress I'm under now. This HA is so distressing when its new symptoms. I have hope that it passed for you so I hope it will for me when I start relaxing more. I guess the key is to face it head on & not let anxiety win😊
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