|
Post by Deleted on May 25, 2010 8:54:36 GMT
Do you always imagine the worst? I do, for about a minute. A sudden ache in my arm might be bone cancer, indigestion might be caused by a diseased gall bladder, etc. Then my logic center overrides and erases the stupidity... until next time.
|
|
|
Post by onlymark on May 25, 2010 8:58:30 GMT
I'll try and post a reply later as I'm just off to the doctor.
|
|
|
Post by happytraveller on May 25, 2010 9:28:05 GMT
Do you always imagine the worst? I do, for about a minute. A sudden ache in my arm might be bone cancer, indigestion might be caused by a diseased gall bladder, etc. Then my logic center overrides and erases the stupidity... until next time. Am a bit like that too. I had a phase when I would google my symptoms and guess what, you always come up with cancer, no matter what symptoms you google for. I have decided to never do that again and deal with stuff like that a lot better now.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on May 25, 2010 11:11:51 GMT
I used to suffer from this type of anxiety...much less so these days. Much of it I have come to believe has to do with one's current state of mind. If I'm particularly depressed or stressed about something,the more likely I am to go to town with all manner of imaginary,worse case scenarios.
|
|
|
Post by spindrift on May 28, 2010 10:24:33 GMT
I'm afraid that my fear about my lung problems might prevent me from trying another high altitude trek.
|
|
|
Post by joanne28 on Jun 7, 2010 18:52:17 GMT
I'm very healthy for an overweight 56 year old woman. No medications at all, except for the occasional antihistamine when my allergies go nuts in the spring. Normal blood pressure and cholesterol.
So I brush off any little symptoms I might get as simply aging.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2010 18:56:02 GMT
I have decided that the pain in my arm is more than just internet abuse. I'm pretty sure it will have to be amputated.
|
|
|
Post by onlymark on Jun 7, 2010 19:08:51 GMT
Sounds (h)armless enough.
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 7, 2010 19:23:18 GMT
Funny Mark ~~ let's give him a hand!
|
|
|
Post by spindrift on Jun 8, 2010 10:30:00 GMT
No (h)arm done....
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2010 15:59:27 GMT
Even though he elbowed his way in?
|
|
|
Post by spindrift on Jun 8, 2010 22:44:09 GMT
Oh dear, I didn't notice Mark's 'harm'....excuse me...
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 8, 2010 23:01:44 GMT
Good of you to shoulder the blame.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2010 6:34:18 GMT
I know you are all pulling my leg.
|
|
|
Post by spindrift on Jun 9, 2010 9:20:25 GMT
there comes a time when you have to bite the bullet.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2010 13:56:39 GMT
There was a really funny comic sketch years ago (Tim Conway or Harvey Corman maybe?) in which the guy is experiencing each symptom of the disease he fears he has the moment he reads/hears about that symptom until he has a full-fledged raging case of it. Then finds that it's a condition that only affects the opposite sex. (You probably had to be there. It suffers in the retelling.)
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2010 16:27:12 GMT
I suppose that phantom bleeding should be mentioned. This afternoon I scraped my leg against a concrete barrier on a bike, trying to avoid a road warrior in a motor vehicle. I still had about 800 meters to go, and I felt a certain wetness just above my ankle, which then seemed to trickle into my socks.
Yet when I reached my destination, I lifted my jean and saw that the skin was not even broken. WTF were those trickles that I felt?
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 13, 2010 19:41:35 GMT
You pissed yourself in fear when forced against the barrier?
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2010 20:06:10 GMT
All in my mind.... as usual.
|
|
|
Post by gertie on Jul 8, 2010 13:13:43 GMT
Hm no to your first question, my first tendency is to completely downplay whatever is wrong. Perhaps a hold over from athletics as a kid, that whole there is nothing you can't walk off. Of course for young kids, there is generally very little they can't walk off given their natural resist to severe injury, so I suppose some justification. This has resulted for me in a few situations where I probably should have had medical intervention much faster, although no permanent harm, thankfully.
The trickles may have been all in your mind, I suppose, but seems to me might also be some weird nerve thing due to the bang of the crash. My daughter got hit in the eye some years ago and was temporarily blinded. We made flying trip to the local ER, which was staffed by a general surgeon who recommended we travel to the nearest available eye surgeon at an emergency room an hour and a half away. By the time we saw the eye surgeon, her sight was returning. Seeing no obvious damage, he recommended her wearing an eye patch for several days to rest the eye, followed by a visit to our own eye doctor. He said weird nerve reactions such as the blindness in that eye were not at all uncommon following what was obviously quite a hard hit. Happily all has turned out fine, when the patch was removed several days hence her eyesight was fine and no further problems.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Jul 8, 2010 17:43:07 GMT
I vote for the wierd nerve thing amped up by a dose of imagination and fear.
I had a similar thing happen when I was tagging along with a beekeeper as he tended his hives. Keep in mind that I have a bee phobia, so was out of my element in the first place. But the beekeeper's art is so fascinating that I forgot my fear. Until I felt tiny prickly crawling sensations up my pant leg. They kept climbing higher and higher and I was practically peeing my pants in anticipation of the stings I was sure would follow. I finally freaked out and the beekeeper rushed me to "safety", pulled down my drawers ready to dispatch the errant bees before they could hurt me.
False alarm. Nothing there. But I FELT it.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2010 12:20:00 GMT
Imaginary bugs is a classic. It's amazing how real they can feel.
|
|
|
Post by tod2 on Oct 18, 2010 15:05:40 GMT
This has happened to me a couple of times in the past and although it kinda unsettled me I ignored it and it went away........Now it's returned and has been felt for two weeks now. It's a pain in my left arm. Day and night. Comes and goes. I start thinking it's a heart condition, it's my blood, it's a pinched nerve et.c etc. Tomorrow I'll threaten it within an inch of its life - if I survive the night..........
|
|
|
Post by mickthecactus on Oct 18, 2010 16:07:18 GMT
I'm reverse hypochondria.
I ignore everything.
Which is just as bad..........
|
|
|
Post by tod2 on Nov 2, 2010 13:54:26 GMT
That arm pain has gone - I am convinced now that it was a pinched nerve from somewhere in the vertebrae of my neck. I few injections of Neurobin (high voltage Vit B's) must have regenerated the nerve.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2010 20:22:46 GMT
I have a number of imaginary (I hope) illnesses ripening at the moment.
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2010 5:24:53 GMT
I'm reverse hypochondria. I ignore everything. Which is just as bad.......... That's me! I always think whatever it is will eventually go away.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Nov 30, 2010 21:02:24 GMT
If you marry a doctor, you may think that your health will be taken care of. But in fact, you will not go to a doctor for any affliction, unless you are obviously on the verge of death.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2010 21:07:06 GMT
Are you on the verge of death, Kimby?
|
|
|
Post by hwinpp on Dec 1, 2010 8:43:21 GMT
The guy next door to me is a doctor. He's been running around with a cough for three solid weeks now. He's only here every two months so his stay this time has been completely wasted because he insists it'll go away by itself.
|
|