Health anxiety - please help

I'm driving myself nuts every night over every little thing that could be 'wrong' with me. I've convinced myself I'm going to die soon honestly, it's making me unable to sleep or focus properly. I'm going to make a GP appointment tomorrow to address one of the issues, but it gives me so much anxiety I haven't even told my husband. I sit and cry constantly because I'm so worried and scared to talk about these things. Maybe writing it out here will help bring some sort of relief and if anyone can help gently push me to go see the GP and and advice too that would be great There's 3 things bothering me, I guess the most major one is I have a mark on my leg, sort of looks like a prickly bruise? I thought it was a bruise at first but that was around Christmas time I noticed it and it has only gotten bigger. It doesn't feel like anything, it doesn't hurt, it's barely noticeable honestly. Like it's not dark in colour or anything. I don't know what it is but I've convinced myself it's cancer. It isn't dry skin, it isn't any sort of bruise or rash, so I dont know. It isn't anywhere else on my body either that I can see. Another thing is, I get these terrible bouts of dizziness/shooting pain in my head when I sit/lean over on the ground. The only time it happens is when I'm sorting the laundry, as it's the only time I'm really ever in that position. It's very similar to the feeling when you get up too quickly, except I also get a pain in the back of my head. It last no more than 3 seconds. I don't know if I putting pressure on a nerve, cutting off blood, or what, but I've also convinced myself that's a tumour. I can't even touch that area of my head because I just shiver and convince myself every little bump is cancer. The last one is I'm getting pains in my pelvic/uterus area. Similar to period cramps but a bit sharper, and they don't always happen when I'm on my period or ovulating. I wondered if maybe I have endometriosis but I don't know much about it or what it's supposed to feel like. I had a Cervical Screening a few months ago and all came back fine. I just feel like I'm going mad with it all. I'm scared to die. Part of me is trying to remain calm and rational but its so difficult and I can barely sleep.

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I have health anxiety and it is so horrible. I went to the GP and have started sertraline and done CBT. You're not alone and I understand how you feel :) if you ever want to chat, feel free to dm me. Seeing a doc about those things will hopefully help make you feel better but it also might help to try to reduce your anxiety generally by doing cbt or something x

I'm sorry that you are feeling anxious, I know how horrible that can be. I understand that you are worried about having these things checked out. I worry about these things too in case it's bad news. However, if it is something serious, you have a better chance of a positive outcome the sooner you get checked. It may also be something very minor that can be easily resolved, and then you wouldn't have to worry anymore. I hope you manage to see a GP soon and that you are able to get some peace of mind.

Sorry you’re struggling with this, my husband has this so I can kind of understand what health anxiety can do to you mentally. In regards to your pain in the pelvis area, I’ve had this back in January left it as I don’t really like to bother doctors then I went in June as I couldn’t put up with it any more fast forward to now I am having keyhole surgery for an ovarian cyst the size of a potato the end of Feb, just to try and put you at ease it’s very very rare for an ovarian cyst to be cancerous and they can usually tell this by scans/the way it looks. We all gets cysts and they’re usually that small they’re never noticed I’ve just had one that’s grown big. Pain in lower back, weeing very often, bloating, pain during sex, pain passing a poo sometimes, pain all throughout the month not just period or ovulating are some of my main symptoms. I don’t want to scare you but if you have any of the above it’s worth checking out, they also mentioned endo as my symptoms do point to that…

It might not even be that but I just thought there’s that possibility, majority are functional cysts which mean these are normal in period cycles like I said everyone will get them in their lifetime but won’t feel them as they’re tiny but some do grow big, cause symptoms and then need intervention where they’re taken out and you’re back to normal. Feel free to message me if you feel you need to x

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