I have always had some anxiety, and to a healthy degree I might say. Last September I started getting mouth aphthae’s and I started obsessing on them. I also had a mild cough and my tongue was whiter than usual.

This is where I started searching on the internet. I read all sorts of things that I wished I never read.

The worst happened when I remembered about a one night stand I had had two months prior to that (using protection, of course). I panicked. I am not the kind of guy who goes for one night stands and I felt like crap for having gone through with it. I thought I had contracted an STD or something. I was literally punching my head with fists because I thought my life was over. The next day I went to a dentist who told me it was probably nothing and that its most likely that I’ve had aphthaes in the past (which is actually true). I went to the GP and he told me the same thing. Boy, was I relieved!

This relief did not last more than 2 hours. After which I find myself at a clinic getting tested for STDs and yeast infections. All tests came out negative. 

During the next days I coughed a lot. I visited a lung doctor who gave me some pills and told me to get tested for Covid. Turns out it was Covid. The lung doctor also had me do some blood tests where, given that I had Covid, she saw nothing to worry about.

The same symptoms (more or less) I developed this month when I contracted Covid for a second time. I’m fine now and fully vaccinated. However, I keep looking at my mouth and obsessing about how white it is and what not. Deep down I am scared that I may have something serious. 

Has anyone else gone through this sort of health obsessions? How have you coped with it? Would getting tested again solve any issue?