I just found this community and figured this might be a good place to vent about how I’ve been feeling this past month and a half. Starting the first week of February I’ve slowly been developing symptoms of health anxiety. It all started when I felt lightheaded one night in bed and went on google looking for answers (wise ik.) Long story short google told me I was having a heart attack. Now, heart problems run in my family, so I was pretty unnerved and the anxiety only got worse with every day, however because I also have a major phobia of surgery or honestly anything involving doctors, hospitals, etc… I kept quiet. I constantly felt fatigued, lost my appetite, and pretty much couldn’t focus on anything except constantly checking my pulse. Eventually it all came to a boiling point and I ended up going to the ER where they diagnosed me with an anxiety attack and prescribed me vistaril to take as needed. Since this it’s really been an off and on thing but I constantly have worries about my health running through my head, brain tumor, lung cancer, arrhythmia, and a laundry list of other things. I get weird nerve sensations like zaps or cold spots all over different parts of my body at different times throughout the day, occasional tingling on my scalp and the back of my head. And most frightening, sometimes as I’m trying to sleep at night all of a sudden I get a jumping feeling in my chest, like the feeling you get with a sudden scare that makes you jump, it happens and then passes just as quickly and it always makes me feel like my heart is gonna stop or something, but with the all clear from the ER with my heart complaints I just don’t understand why it’s doing that. I have a doctors appointment april 6th but I just hope I comes quickly because I’m really getting to the end of my tether with this. I’ve  never had anything like this until a month ago and it’s honestly terrifying and exhausting.