Story of my life men. Now I have it mostly at bay... but you know, I've had couple of deadly illness in my life.
A funny story, years ago (when i was streesed as hell because of finantials, health, etc), I went to Dr because i had a flu, then he tested my Oxygen levels, and I did not pay much attention. At home I started to review the doctor notes in the sheet, i saw the oxygen readings, and i started to search online (internet is the worst friend of hypochondriacs jaja) an I found that leveles below 95% are not good... I watched the sheet again and I read 82%!!
Damn! I was dying for sure!, I told my wife, putting my shoes on to go to ER, the She read the numbers and said... Emmm. Johnny it is not 82%, it says 98%.... the damn Dr wrote the O as an 8 and the 8 as a %.
My wife and I had a really big laugh then.
It hits me in periods of time when I'm very stressed, but I now handle it very well and it is not a problem (most of the time jaja).
Hypochondriac is not a problem of being coward, or having a weak mind, it is just that we have some kind of switch activated in our heads. I have suffered from robbery and they put a gun in my head and i felt no fear, I have a strong personality and feel I'm brave most of the situations.... but talking about health i became in a little puppy that need my wife around to take care, jaja.
Regards,
Johnny.