- “I’m in my kidney failure era right now”
- “Brain tumour, heart attacks,throat cancer,bowl cancer,rabies,MS,HIV, multiple other types of cancer. Chin up bud it sucks but you’ll get through it.”
- “Constantly prepared to have a seizure…. I have never a had a seizure BUT I’M WAITING”
- “Oh I stepped on an earring yesterday so I have tetanus now”
- “I’m really nauseous today, so thinking any type of cancer and have chest pain so it’s the usual heart attack anxiety. Anxiety is draining man”
- “Usually the shitty C… but usually colorectal cancer, stomach cancer, throat cancer, lung cancer…. UGH health anxiety can go suck a big fat one”
- “Brain eating amoeba”
- “Heart attack, brain tumor, clogged arteries, cancer”
- “That I’m going to cause my body so much stress that I’m going to seize or have a stroke”
- “Cancer. It’s usually cancer. Lately it’s been colorectal cancer. Tomorrow? Who knows! Join us next week for “Is it still cancer or is it the ever elusive less likely but still possible pulmonary embolism!””
- “Some sort of nerve damage 😶 I’ve been googling non stop and can’t relax at all.”
- “Multiple sclerosis!”
- “Esophageal cancer or just any type of cancer really. Getting an endoscopy this Friday, so hopefully not the big c word haha”
- “Fucking pregnancy. I didn’t even have penetrative sex but my period is like 3 months late and I was like what if I’m the virgin mary. Wasted $25 on a test to tell me I’m not pregnant. Duh”
- “It is so soothing knowing I’m not alone in this feeling 🥲”
- “diabetes and lung cancer 😭”
- “MS, brain tumor. Undiagnosed heart condition”
- “not today, but a few weeks ago I was convinced that my heart tore. and that’s why my chest was hurting, when I was around 20/21 I was absolutely sure that I was going to spontaneously combust. like 8 years ago I, a cisgendered female, was convinced I had prostate cancer.”
- “ALS is a big one. Every few years or so I get pretty sure I’ve got it because I have fasciculations all over. I’m convinced lately that I’m in the verge of having a stroke…” [Response continues but includes diagnostic discussion I’ll omit for medical responsibility]
- “today i’ve been better but recently i had the worst back pain and stomach pain and was thinking i had a kidney infection and that i was going to get sepsis. I had tears and everything because I thought the worst . The next day I got my period explained all my pain. Health anxiety is hell to say the least💀👍
- “Lymphoma🙃 I have swollen lymph nodes in my neck and I’ve been checked out and I’m fine, got an ultrasound and everything. I think it’s from constant stress. With constant anxiety, your body is fighting an invisible infection, which is the anxiety, leading to swollen lymph nodes. I know that. But my health anxiety brain does not.”
- “Blood clots”
- “Schizophrenia. ADHD. Heart problems, crazy, diabetes, blood pressure.”
- “Heart attacks. All day everyday.. one bubble of digestion HEART ATTACK. One heart palpitation.. my life is over lmao man it’s crazy typing it out I think I need therapy”
- “I’ve had a migraine for 24+ hours now. Today at work (yes, I went to work 😭), it suddenly got worse and I thought “oh no! Aneurysm!” for a brief minute.”
- “This thread is hilarious, in a good way, lol Mine is always cancer, brain tumor, or bug in my ear… It is always dizziness or short breath related, and it always turns out to be being just sooooo fucking tired.”
- “I have a spot/ingrown hair/splinter/anything other than cancer on my index finger, that I’m convinced is going to kill me. Fuck this anxiety.”
- “I’m in a stroke phase, have to check the mirror a dozen times a day to see if my face has gone droopy.”
- “Convinced I was having a heart attack when I had been vomiting for a week and it caused irritation of my chest wall muscle. Went to the ED and ended up getting Baker Acted after they found some relatively fresh self harm scars. Fun times.”
- “I am female and I could convince myself I have testicular cancer 🙃”
- “Today? Thrombosis”
- “OMG THIS IS ME today: diabetes”
- “Heart attack or just dropping dead out of no where 😫 I literally had multiple tests done by my cardiologist and I’m perfectly healthy. But the fear/anxiety doesn’t stop.”
- “i pinched a nerve in my sleep in my neck (which has happened to me before), and it made my right arm tingly for a hot second, and i was convinced i was having a heat attack (spoiler alert: i didn’t).”
- “Deep vein thrombosis or heart attack are popular in my brain for some reason.”