Kkori
December 7th, 2009, 03:39 AM
Hello,
I feel like an idiot asking so many questions and never answering any on the forums, but I have a filter on my computer that prevents me from viewing most of the forums so I usually can't access anything except my own stuff. I'm sorry D: I'll try harder!
I think I have hypochondria.
The first time I noticed it was a day before an exam I had to take and I was having some discomfort below my belly button, and slowly seemed to migrate towards the right. It wasn't pain, just discomfort and all. But a few hours after I got home from school I started wondering if it might be appendicitis, because I had heard of it somewhere before. Then I started looking it up and got so scared that I couldn't study at all. I told my parents and they told me I was overreacting. The next day I got up and it was still there. I did my exam and it seemed to disappear but it came back a little later. My parents told me I could go to the doctor with my sister (who had a runny nose etc) and I did; she told me it had to do with constipation, which is a chronic and major problem with me since I was a baby. Then I felt better, mentally, and the pain went away soon after.
A few months later it happened again, same place, except it didn't begin below the belly button. I completely freaked out and spent the rest of the evening pushing in and out to see if there was any rebound pain and therefore appendicitis. I got so scared I could barely eat dinner and that night my dad took me to the doctor after telling me that I was overreacting but to no avail. The doctor said that he didn't know what the pain was but that it wasn't constipation because it was on the right side. He gave me antispasmodics and told me to wait and see if the pain got worse because it probably wasn't appendicitis as it usually starts near the navel. This was the worst thing he could have said. Now not only was it still there my own doctor didn't know what it was. My dad told me it was probably a muscle ache and I tried to forget it, but the discomfort remained as a little bit of pressure in that place from time to time.
Then a day before I was going to take an overseas school trip I suddenly felt a mild pain in my right chest/breast area. Now I thought that it was a heart attack. My parents started yelling at me over the dinner table. I decided it was nothing, but in the middle of the trip the same mild discomfort started appearing in my LEFT chest, near the armpit. Now I was really scared. I told the teacher I was scared of a heart attack who told me it was probably a muscle ache and not to worry but to wait it out. The next day it wasn't better and had even moved a little to the right. This pain waned and waxed throughout the rest of the trip and continued when I got home.
By that time my parents were sure it had to do with puberty, because I'm a horribly late developer (in comparison to my peers; got my period at 14 years 6 months which is considered late). I'm taking evening primrose oil. But this afternoon (a week before my supposed "period" but I'm still somewhat irregular so what can I say?) I suddenly got a pain BELOW THE NAVEL and this time I was SURE it was appendicitis or something equally bad. It turned into something crampy but not painful per se. I told my sister who sent me a Wikipedia article on mittelschmerz but how could it be when I've had pain, like, three times this month? I've been to the toilet and cleared as much of my bowel as I could (constipation prevails) and put a cup of hot drink on it and it feels better, kind of, but it's STILL THERE, and I'm trying to stop myself from freaking out.
I've told my parents about the hypochondria thing but my father doesn't think much of it and just tells me to get over it, and the one time my mother asked me if I wanted to see a counsellor I wasn't having any symptoms or anything, and decided that I 'didn't have the time'.
What can I do?
I feel like an idiot asking so many questions and never answering any on the forums, but I have a filter on my computer that prevents me from viewing most of the forums so I usually can't access anything except my own stuff. I'm sorry D: I'll try harder!
I think I have hypochondria.
The first time I noticed it was a day before an exam I had to take and I was having some discomfort below my belly button, and slowly seemed to migrate towards the right. It wasn't pain, just discomfort and all. But a few hours after I got home from school I started wondering if it might be appendicitis, because I had heard of it somewhere before. Then I started looking it up and got so scared that I couldn't study at all. I told my parents and they told me I was overreacting. The next day I got up and it was still there. I did my exam and it seemed to disappear but it came back a little later. My parents told me I could go to the doctor with my sister (who had a runny nose etc) and I did; she told me it had to do with constipation, which is a chronic and major problem with me since I was a baby. Then I felt better, mentally, and the pain went away soon after.
A few months later it happened again, same place, except it didn't begin below the belly button. I completely freaked out and spent the rest of the evening pushing in and out to see if there was any rebound pain and therefore appendicitis. I got so scared I could barely eat dinner and that night my dad took me to the doctor after telling me that I was overreacting but to no avail. The doctor said that he didn't know what the pain was but that it wasn't constipation because it was on the right side. He gave me antispasmodics and told me to wait and see if the pain got worse because it probably wasn't appendicitis as it usually starts near the navel. This was the worst thing he could have said. Now not only was it still there my own doctor didn't know what it was. My dad told me it was probably a muscle ache and I tried to forget it, but the discomfort remained as a little bit of pressure in that place from time to time.
Then a day before I was going to take an overseas school trip I suddenly felt a mild pain in my right chest/breast area. Now I thought that it was a heart attack. My parents started yelling at me over the dinner table. I decided it was nothing, but in the middle of the trip the same mild discomfort started appearing in my LEFT chest, near the armpit. Now I was really scared. I told the teacher I was scared of a heart attack who told me it was probably a muscle ache and not to worry but to wait it out. The next day it wasn't better and had even moved a little to the right. This pain waned and waxed throughout the rest of the trip and continued when I got home.
By that time my parents were sure it had to do with puberty, because I'm a horribly late developer (in comparison to my peers; got my period at 14 years 6 months which is considered late). I'm taking evening primrose oil. But this afternoon (a week before my supposed "period" but I'm still somewhat irregular so what can I say?) I suddenly got a pain BELOW THE NAVEL and this time I was SURE it was appendicitis or something equally bad. It turned into something crampy but not painful per se. I told my sister who sent me a Wikipedia article on mittelschmerz but how could it be when I've had pain, like, three times this month? I've been to the toilet and cleared as much of my bowel as I could (constipation prevails) and put a cup of hot drink on it and it feels better, kind of, but it's STILL THERE, and I'm trying to stop myself from freaking out.
I've told my parents about the hypochondria thing but my father doesn't think much of it and just tells me to get over it, and the one time my mother asked me if I wanted to see a counsellor I wasn't having any symptoms or anything, and decided that I 'didn't have the time'.
What can I do?