Hypochondria

Borotommo

Borotommo

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Anyone else get more worrisome as you’re getting older? I’ve had a few weeks of feeling very much under the weather, and can’t seem to shift the idea that something is badly wrong. I’ve had a couple of phone calls with the GP and some medication which hasn’t helped at all.
 
Certainly have become more aware that you dont always feel right, and that it may be more serious. Dont go looking for it though, and I am not sure that I want to know the full extent of the problem.
 
Borotommo said:
Anyone else get more worrisome as you’re getting older? I’ve had a few weeks of feeling very much under the weather, and can’t seem to shift the idea that something is badly wrong. I’ve had a couple of phone calls with the GP and some medication which hasn’t helped at all.
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I think that's normal, I have weeks at a time like that (up to 4 in a row)...lethargic, achy and just cba. Then it goes and I feel great again (until the next time). Dunno of it's viral, stress-related or just linked to being overtired but it seems to be just "life" lol.
 
Things which don't help is the adverts... i know prevention and catching things earlier is easier to treat... but still, you're trying to get away from it all, watching a match or something.... then the adverts come on

"does your chest hurt, it's probably nothing but it could be a heart attack"

"Do you find it hard to poo? It's probably nothing but it could be bowel cancer"

"Are you coughing more than normal? It's probably nothing but it could be lung cancer"


Nevermind the pandemic and constant news...
 
Borotommo said:
Anyone else get more worrisome as you’re getting older? I’ve had a few weeks of feeling very much under the weather, and can’t seem to shift the idea that something is badly wrong. I’ve had a couple of phone calls with the GP and some medication which hasn’t helped at all.
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BoroTommo- some people are prone to worrying. I am a great worrier. I worry about anything. The more insignificant it is, the more I worry. If I have nothing to worry about then I worry about that too. I enjoy worrying, which in itself is worrying. It's just the way I'm made. I am 66 now and I have worried for as long as I remember. Mostly about nothing. On the occasions where it has got bad enough to see the doctor I have been reassured by him/her that I have nothing to worry about. I found that both reassuring yet disappointing because I really do need to have something to worry about.
Goodness me, if we were all the the same we would be a boring lot. Now, THAT WOULD be worrying.
 
Trug said:
BoroTommo- some people are prone to worrying. I am a great worrier. I worry about anything. The more insignificant it is, the more I worry. If I have nothing to worry about then I worry about that too. I enjoy worrying, which in itself is worrying. It's just the way I'm made. I am 66 now and I have worried for as long as I remember. Mostly about nothing. On the occasions where it has got bad enough to see the doctor I have been reassured by him/her that I have nothing to worry about. I found that both reassuring yet disappointing because I really do need to have something to worry about.
Goodness me, if we were all the the same we would be a boring lot. Now, THAT WOULD be worrying.
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That is one of the best posts on here Trug :)
 
Boro in Devon said:
Certainly have become more aware that you dont always feel right, and that it may be more serious. Dont go looking for it though, and I am not sure that I want to know the full extent of the problem.
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Not that about myself, more about my loved ones, then on another day I feel everything is fine in the world
 
I think as you get older you get more aware of your mortality and as such you notice the aches /pains etc more and subsequently consider what might be the cause. I reckon it’s fairly normal to be that way to be honest.
 
I've had a few potentially life threatening illnesses over the yrs which have lasted yrs each, I used to think every ache/pain/anything out of the norm was the end. Now I've been around a couple of couple of decades I find that I'm a lot less stressed about my health.
 
And there I was thinking it was only me. January lost some of my taste, had a Covid check, clear. Left it a month and another test, clear, Had a blood test came back normal except for a fatty liver and low Iron. Doc says, no booze 4-6 weeks and take Iron tablets, Now I have dry mouth syndrome and a trigger thumb. Take me out shoot me.
 
I'm in my 40s and probably think more about random aches and pains than I ever would have in the past.

The worst thing to do is Google anything. Pretty much every issue can be linked with life threatening on the Internet and then you worry more.

I felt absolutely knackered around June - August last year. I couldn't sit down without falling asleep and just felt really 'rough' and especially in a morning. A quick Google made me think I could have undiagnosed Diabetes / HIV / Cancer. I got tested for nearly everything over a few weeks😂. I guess the one good thing is i tested negative for all of the above (and a few more). I even had a prostate cancer check. It's not as bad as you'd think and get checked out lads especially of a certain age.

I would say around this time that they hadn't said longterm fatigue is a after effect of having covid. So maybe it could have been that. After a couple of months whatever it was I feel better and never had any treatment for anything. It's weird I should be 'ill' for 2 months and then get better without anyone knowing what was wrong with me. You know you're body and when something just isn't right.

To be honest as I rule im the complete opposite of a hypochondriac. I had a broken arm for 3 weeks because I couldn't be 'bothered' to go to the doctors. I also once had glandular fever for nearly a month. I could hardly get out of bed and still worked. Eventually when I could hardly walk any distance I went to a see a doctor and he signed me off for 8 weeks and was stunned I'd not been in for treatment😂

I just imagine so many people see the GP for no reason at all. I just think 'I don't want to waste his time' that or 'give it a week'.

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Ever since I hit 30 it was like hitting a wall where suddenly I was aware of my own mortality.

People in my year at school have started to pass and everytime they do, it hits me a little harder, as I reflect on some of the things I’ve put my body through over the years.

I’ve had a few leg pains this past year which have been playing on me, but when I went to the Dr he said it was nothing to worry about.

I’m now putting it down to that I’ve always been able to carry a decent amount of weight because I have generally always walked 5-7 miles a day. This past year that’s crashed through the floor, so maybe, so muscle wastage is causing it.
 
Hypochondriasis is the only illness I don't have at the moment! Joking aside it is probably more common now for people to catastrophise aches and pains and self diagnose. The stress and upheaval to peoples lives caused by the pandemic has increased peoples stress levels considerably. Stress can equate to increased physical aches and pains, it becomes psychosomatic and is a vicious circle. The internet does not help this process by making information readily available and consequently we check up on illness symptoms assuming we have the worst we see online. As we get older we also become more aware of our own mortality as well. Hopefully, when we get back to some kind of normality, starting tomorrow, and the good weather comes, and we exercise more, we should all be feeling the better for it!
 
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