100% know what you're talking about. Whenever I get any type of pain I start thinking about it more and more and its turned into a life threatening illness. I then get really anxious because I think i've got something!

LOL! Isnt that just weird?! I immediatly think its a heartattack! ANd I start to panic BAAAAD!

Yep! After i've calmed down I laugh at myself because I know i'm actually fine :)

I do the same thing! I always think it's has got to be the worse thing it possibly could be! Amazing how are minds work!

I have fibro and I freak out with every pain I do get. Especially the ones in my chest. It is non cardio it moves around from the left then right and then center. It is like that all freaking day and most of the night. Warm packs help a little. So if your back gets sore or feels weird try using a heating pad or take a warm bath.

Oh yeah I know what you mean! Everything is such a big deal! I read a post on here once that I loved the name of called: "Why cant I just be sick?" It was great! Perfectly describing this! I cant stand it! I mean, I get back pains sometimes and they are ususally sharp comming out of nowhere I and totally freak out! I've got theragesic cream (like icyhot but better) and even use vicks on my back but I'll just lay or sit completely still for hours or even the whole day like I just threw my entire back out or something. I can think back to acting like that as a child. I got a shot in my arse LOL when I was like 3 and I can still remember, I didnt get out of bed for 2 days! Thought bc my butt was sore, I couldnt walk or something. My parents always had to carry me out of the office when I got a shot like that. Then carry me in. It was silly but I was 3. It was hypochondria at 3.

Then headaches are serious, chest pains yes! I get weird chest pains! Sometimes in one spot a sharp chest pain that if I'd just let it go, it would go away pretty fast but no I obsess. Concentrated on that spot the rest of the day. Worried what it was. I get chest pain now from a mixture of heart burn, fatiuge, sometimes over doing it, and being in my first trimester. That pain freaks me out but I'm trying to remember thats all it is. Sure is hard tho!

I got a ecocardiogram done of my heart Friday and I'm freaking out right now about what the result is. Imagining the doc calling me and saying he wants to see me in his office immediatly or something. Its just awful! This hypochondria is just awful!!!!!

Of course, we do! On a good day, I can dismiss it. If you focus on your body sensations, you will feel body sensations. If you focus on the negative you will feel the negative. Did you ever have negative thoughts about your mate and one leads into another and then you sort of look at him/her negatively. Again, if you look for the negative in somebody, you will find it. Turn it around, girl.

Like my last post wasnt long enough I have more to say LOL. I could go on all day but I wont. Just that my biggest thing right now is breathing problems. Fearing that I have asthma. Picturing using the inhaler I have just incase and it not working and I die before parametics get to me. Not likely at all to happen but dont tell me that at 6am when I wake up in panic from a nightmare about drowning and I'm catching my breath. Lots of nightmares involving not being able to breath!

And alot of self checking too! I check my pulse. Have a home blood pressure kit. Check it all the time. Was thinking of looking into an oxygen monitor or something. I'm like a 25 year old non smoker thats never had an oxygen level under 97% in ALLLLLL the times I've been to the ER. I shouldnt be worried about this crap! I should be enjoying motherhood and pregnancy again! A happy wife. Just running errands and cooking dinner. Not curled up on a couch or bed worried sick all the time! I even picure myself normal. Picture getting like broncitus (sp?) and not freaking out. Going to the doctor and them giving me that red cough sirup that on the label says may cause you to see things. The kind my mom says makes her feel anxious. Yeah like I'd take it and just be fine. Or get a head ache and be like, "Oh darn guess I'll take a tylenol.... now what to cook for dinner?" Waking up from one of those nightmares and being like, "Wow that was scary!.... Glad it was just a dream! Oh well... back to sleep." I can see it but I cant live it. This sucks! Sry this was long too!

That is exactly what I do. Sometimes I can just talk myself out of freaking out. For instance if I question a soreness in part of my body are start to go through everything I did the past couple days to figure out why it hurst. if I determine the reason, working out, shoveling snow etc...I right off the pain and feel much better. if I cant determine where it originated from i could start to freak out. This all depends on my anxiety/stress level. Most of the time I am fine but if I am stressed its a different story. It is funny when you look back on it but extremely scary when you are at that moment.

A doctor I visited a while ago brought up something called Somatization disorder. Somatization disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis applied to patients who persistently complain of varied physical symptoms that have no identifiable physical origin.[1] The disorder may begin before 30 years of age and could last for several years, resulting to either medical seeking behavior or significant treatment.[2] One common general etiological explanation is that internal psychological conflicts are unconsciously expressed as physical signs. Patients with somatization disorder will typically visit many doctors in pursuit of effective treatment.