Hi to all the members in this forum
I am a 24 y/o female who is always anxious about
everything since I was young and I am currently struggling with health anxiety on a daily basis.
A little history of my anxiety. I developed pure OCD after watching Gone Girl where there was a scene of the guy being killed by the girl using a knife and blood was all over the place. Ever since then, I get really anxious whenever I see knife or something sharp. I also started to have all the imagination of me killing people or harming people which got me really anxious because those imaginations were too real. I was so anxious to the point that I couldnt even sleep at night and hoping time to pass faster each day. This pure OCD got better after I had CBT for 6 sessions and now I am about
95% free from all these scary thoughts and I don't get affected by them now.
However, I think my anxiety has somehow shifted from pure OCD to health anxiety.
After I started working, I developed chest pain occasionally but it didnt seem to bother me at first. But last December, my grandma passed away in front of me and that was 11.30am in the morning. On that night, I started having chest pain again that didnt go away after 2 days. I was so paranoid thinking I will die from heart attack and started imagining my funeral and stuff which got me even more anxious.
From this January to April, I had 4 ECGs done and all the results came back to be normal. I started to accept that it was just my anxiety and was able to stay anxiety free and chest pain free for few days. Just when I thought everything went back to normal, I started to feel sharp pain in my arms and legs. It doesnt feel like muscle or bone pain. It feels like some kind sharp electrical nerve pain that runs under my skin that lasted for few seconds (it can happen every 10 minutes) and I have been feeling this kind of pain for more than 2 weeks on a daily basis. Feeling anxious, I googled 'nerve pain', MS and HIV popped out and that really scared the hell out of me.
Although I am not sexually active, I kept thinking that I have contracted HIV. The pain is so severe that it affected my sleep. So my question is, can anxiety really cause this type of pain? Does anyone feel this kind of pain?
Thank you for reading and have a great day ahead