Share your hypochondria here

[aside]

The bottom of my foot is slightly itchy.  I'm sure it's a horrible, flesh eating infection that will leave me with a stump for a leg.  No way it's just dry skin or a bit of grit in my shoe.

Maybe athlete's foot?

M.

This was in July; the_geneticist may have been consumed entirely by now!

[mahagonny]

I think that I used to have schizophrenia. Which would mean I still have it, but it's dormant.

[Bede the Vulnerable]

My parents died when I was quite young, in quick succession.  Both of cancer.

As a result, every symptom of anything that I have ever had is a sign of cancer.  I'm now having terrible back spasms, which I am taking to be a sign of back cancer.  But is that even a thing?

[Thursday's_Child]

My parents died when I was quite young, in quick succession.  Both of cancer.

As a result, every symptom of anything that I have ever had is a sign of cancer.  I'm now having terrible back spasms, which I am taking to be a sign of back cancer.  But is that even a thing?

No, there's no such thing as back cancer.  The possibilities are FAR worse than that!  You see, the human back is composed of numerous tissue types, all of which could potentially become cancerous.  Thus, your spasms could be from a cancer that is compressing the muscles, from another that is affecting the peripheral nerves, from one actually within the spine that is compressing the spinal cord, from cancerous growths blocking or diverting all blood flow away from the affected muscles, etc., ad infinitum.

I deeply regret being the bearer of bad tidings.  Please accept my most sincere sympathy and my hopes that your most severe sufferings are not prolonged.

[downer]

Like many other wrinklies, I worry about my memory loss. I know it is normal, and that my memory was probably flawed when I was younger, but I just didn't think about it then. But still, people's names, words for common objects, and the locations of my possessions all escape me with alarming frequency. I wonder how rapidly my memory functions will decline.

[mamselle]

If you're female, they suddenly falter quite seriously with the onset of menopause. Verbal repetition and writing things you used to remember down a lot can help, but les petites cellules grises are not long for this world after that point.

If you're male, maybe it's dementia. Or Alzheimer's. Or a brain-eating worm has entered your ear while swimming in the ocean and is currently decimating the cortex as an appetizer before it starts in on the frontal lobe as the first course...

M.

[EdnaMode]

My left hip hurts. It's not at all caused by me upping my exercise routine the past month or so. It's bone cancer. I know it is. It's eating away at the bone of my hip and one day soon, I'll get up from my chair to walk and will collapse in a heap because of a completely disintegrated hip joint.

[clean]

I guess that my hypochondria was not so far fetched. I was just discharged from the hospital with bilateral pulmonary embolisms.  I did nt expect BiLateral!! 

That is why I long ago stopped asking, 'whats the worst that could happen?'  Im not so good at estimating 'the worst'!

[mamselle]

I guess that my hypochondria was not so far fetched. I was just discharged from the hospital with bilateral pulmonary embolisms.  I did nt expect BiLateral!! 

That is why I long ago stopped asking, 'whats the worst that could happen?'  Im not so good at estimating 'the worst'!

I'm sorry to hear that was the case! Glad you survived (seriously).

I should have thought of that; the calf pain might have been where and when the clot first formed. Very common in late pregnancy, the clot forms there and then goes elsewhere to work havoc.

You aren't pregnant, are you?

M.

[clean]

You aren't pregnant, are you?

"Id better not be!!", he replies!

[polly_mer]

You aren't pregnant, are you?

"Id better not be!!", he replies!

Ah, Clean.  Have you managed to escape the recent articles asserting the proper term is "pregnant people" to cover the men and non-binary individuals who are pregnant and then the counterarguments?  I envy you that bliss.

[ciao_yall]

You aren't pregnant, are you?

"Id better not be!!", he replies!

Ah, Clean.  Have you managed to escape the recent articles asserting the proper term is "pregnant people" to cover the men and non-binary individuals who are pregnant and then the counterarguments?  I envy you that bliss.

According to a biological anthropologist the other day, the technical term is no longer "women." It's "vagina holders."

[polly_mer]

You aren't pregnant, are you?

"Id better not be!!", he replies!

Ah, Clean.  Have you managed to escape the recent articles asserting the proper term is "pregnant people" to cover the men and non-binary individuals who are pregnant and then the counterarguments?  I envy you that bliss.

And ithe technical term is no longer "women," it's "vagina holders."

I've seen some pushback on that area because one does not have to have a vagina to be a woman nor does possessing a vagina make one a woman.  I hang out in some interesting places on the internet.

[backatit]

I guess that my hypochondria was not so far fetched. I was just discharged from the hospital with bilateral pulmonary embolisms.  I did nt expect BiLateral!! 

That is why I long ago stopped asking, 'whats the worst that could happen?'  Im not so good at estimating 'the worst'!

Clean, as another PE surviver (and fellow hypochondriac) I did want to reach out to you and tell you I'm glad you survived. If you ever want to chat PM me. It was a scary time (mine was possibly from flying and I still have to fly a lot, and I found that talking to other people who do that helped a bit).

[backatit]

And right now I probably have diabetes because I feel just FINE.