Hey everyone.

I’m a longtime anxiety sufferer and have always been especially neurotic when it comes to my health. I hadn’t experienced health anxiety for a while until a couple of weeks ago when I started getting a bad stomach. I discussed it with the doctor over the phone and he said he didn’t feel it was anything serious but would send me for a blood test to rule anything out. Obviously this set me off completely. I lost it and started panicking. I began feeling a lump in my throat. At first it felt like heartburn which made me panic even more.

Ironically, I’m not really having stomach problems anymore. It’s just this sensation, and it’s been extremely on and off. At the height of my panic it felt absolutely awful. On Saturday I spent the day with my parents and didn’t think about it once, and felt completely fine all day. Tonight at work I haven’t noticed it either as I’ve just been getting on with the shift. 

Does this sound like anxiety?