Anyone else tend to be a Hypochondriac?

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I have had this problem dating back years, as a child I was even worried I had cancer or brain tumors and I was going to die. My stomach growls and I think I have something wrong with my stomach and other stupid little things like that. It can be quite annoying.

Yeah, I almost drove my mother nuts because in junior high I missed a lot of school because I never felt well. Of course I'd feel better on weekends and stuff, but that's probably because I'd have anxiety attacks just being at the school, it was so bad. I seem to be oversensitive to my own body and can't always tell what's "normal" and what isn't, especially as I get older. And when I do become sick with something temporary (which isn't often, thank goodness), I think the anxiety I feel is actually worse than the symptoms usually are or aggravates them. Just a week before Easter I came down with some kind of really bad cold or flu. I hadn't been sick like that in a long time so it's not like I'm used to it, and once I started bawling at night, which of course made my head leak and ache even more... Also I couldn't visit my parents and grandmother on Easter Sunday, Mom said they really missed me. I hope I'll be healthy for the Mother's Day weekend. I'm constantly worried I'll have a "relapse", especially when I start coughing or my throat tickles for no obvious reason. Of course the media doesn't help, either. I get a nasty hangnail and worry about flesh-eating bacteria. Mosquito bites used to be just itchy and annoying, and then suddenly...West Nile Virus. Going in the woods could mean tick bites and Lyme Disease. Ugh!

I'm a massive hypochondriac. Every time I'd bump my finger or hand as a kid, I'd assume it was broken and baby it around for a week. Nowadays, whenever my stomach doesn't feel 100%, I think I'm coming down with the flu or am on the verge of food poisoning. It's effin' annoying. No matter how many times it turns out my fingers weren't actually broken and my stomach felt fine within ten minutes, I'm still incapable of breaking the cycle with common sense. I mean, in fifth grade, I was convinced I had an STD despite, obviously, no sexual contact of any kind.

only about specific things. I didn't normally share them with others. Some of my fears going back to childhood include:

1. parasites (very severe)

2. brain tumors

My most recent fear is going insane or suffering from an undiagnosed personality disorder.

Though, I never went to see professionals about any of this--and never saw doctors generally-- till some interview failures and a major depressive meltdown gave me a kick in the pants to investigate the cause of my social and relational difficulties. This led to a diagnosis of Asperger's, a diagnosis which, I believe, may not be correct. So now I'm looking at other things. Am I a hypochondriac? Maybe. But undiagnosed Asperger's and/or PD's are pretty serious, and I have strong evidence of both.

I'm not a hypochondriac. I'm the opposite in the sense that I hope I'm getting sick at times when a hypochondriac would be afraid.

Maybe I should call myself a hyperchondriac because hoping you're getting sick is the opposite of fearing it. The only problem is that people might interpret that term I just made up to describe someone who is completely oblivious even when s/he really is getting sick. I'm not oblivious.

Parasites are a big one for me, too. Gives me the chills just thinking about it.

Usually though I'm the opposite. I had severe abdominal pains for years and just ignored it (even though they greatly impacted my mobility, energy levels, etc) until finally I went to the doctor and found out I had some very large ovarian cysts that needed to be removed. Once I found out, I started to work myself into a froth worrying they were dermoid cysts so I guess that's kind of a specific hypochondria. :p

Any abnormal sensation in my body can make me scared that there is something wrong with me. I tend to worry most over abdominal pain and headaches, thinking I have appendicitis or a brain aneurysm. I used to worry about my heart, but I turned out to actually have something wrong and then had procedures to have it fixed and then it was monitored closely for a few years, so now I don't worry about it much. I try not to go to the doctor or emergency department very often, but I still go more often than most people. I just can't convince myself that there hasn't been anything much wrong in the past, so it is unlikely that there is something serious wrong now. I KNOW that there is likely nothing wrong, but I still feel terrified that there is.

I was labeled a hypochondriac, around age 17 i always felt ill after i had a flu that nearly killed me.. took me 3 months to recover. but then i kept feeling ill, stomach aches, chest pains, dizzy spells... feeling i was going to die, breathing trouble. i went to the hospital about 20 times over a 2 year period..

then the last time i went i was throwing up and couldn't keep anything down.. and the doctor found out i had appendicitis.. had a blood check and xray after drinking iodine only after showing up 30mins... another 30mins later i was on the operating table. and it was taken out... 2 days in the hospital and maybe a week recovery and i was a new person..

10 years later i been to the hospital only once.