Health anxiety

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It’s not a regular thing for me , but it rears its ugly head from time to time. Have been a little obsessed the last month or two about cancer and brain haemorrhages . Now I’m thinking heart attack because I’ve had a few aches in my right arm.

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I have health anxiety everyday.
I understand you.
I’m a certified hypochondriac.

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I hate heart palpitations. Make me a Hypochondriac

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Hmm… Well, I’ve been told that if I were having an acute heart attack, I’d know as the pain is severe enough to bring grown men to their knees (I used to have bad panic attacks when I tried to sleep in the dark, so I’ve been to the ER with “chest pain” many times). It also comes with other symptoms like shortness of breath, sweating, radiating pain all up and down your left arm and down into your chest and up into your neck and back. I’ve also heard that nausea is common. I don’t know much about cancer or strokes though.

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Also, I’ve found that chest pain is often indicative of thirst. Take shallow breaths and drink some water and you might feel better in about 10 minutes.

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Yes. I always figure some doctor has gotten to me. Their bedside manner can be difficult to turn from.

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The pain isn’t severe and is intermittent rather than continuous.

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Heart attack would be your left arm

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@Sardonic whoever told you that wasn’t accounting for your biological sex. Most women start off with flu-like symptoms and a general sense of discomfort. That’s why the death rate from heart attack is so much higher for women, because they expect excruciating left arm pain and instead get a stomach ache that feels no worse than cramps.

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But yeah @firemonkey it’s your left arm you have to worry about.

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I believe it was one of the nurses that probably got paged from the psych unit the moment they read my paperwork, now that I think about it (I was diagnosed with psychotic depression at the time; this was before they said it was just OCD).

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