Caroline Crampton

So that's my first port of call. I look at the NHS website because I know it's evidence backed and I know it will tell me if you think you have this, please go to the doctor and so on. And yeah, there is a short list of others that I take the same approach to. What I try not to do, I won't say I never do it, is just type.

So that's my first port of call. I look at the NHS website because I know it's evidence backed and I know it will tell me if you think you have this, please go to the doctor and so on. And yeah, there is a short list of others that I take the same approach to. What I try not to do, I won't say I never do it, is just type.

So that's my first port of call. I look at the NHS website because I know it's evidence backed and I know it will tell me if you think you have this, please go to the doctor and so on. And yeah, there is a short list of others that I take the same approach to. What I try not to do, I won't say I never do it, is just type.

Almost all of the time, I find myself taken very seriously. Sometimes a little voice in my head says, maybe too seriously. Maybe occasionally I could benefit from being told, it's nothing to worry about, you can go home. I think because of my serious medical history and the fact that my medical file is like half a foot wide...

Almost all of the time, I find myself taken very seriously. Sometimes a little voice in my head says, maybe too seriously. Maybe occasionally I could benefit from being told, it's nothing to worry about, you can go home. I think because of my serious medical history and the fact that my medical file is like half a foot wide...

Almost all of the time, I find myself taken very seriously. Sometimes a little voice in my head says, maybe too seriously. Maybe occasionally I could benefit from being told, it's nothing to worry about, you can go home. I think because of my serious medical history and the fact that my medical file is like half a foot wide...

I feel like every single little thing that I even vaguely mention gets tested, which is in some ways an incredibly fortunate thing to happen. I spoke to a lot of people when I was writing the book who have the opposite experience of having health anxiety, where they don't get believed at all. They get dismissed only to have serious diagnosis later on that could have been caught much earlier.

I feel like every single little thing that I even vaguely mention gets tested, which is in some ways an incredibly fortunate thing to happen. I spoke to a lot of people when I was writing the book who have the opposite experience of having health anxiety, where they don't get believed at all. They get dismissed only to have serious diagnosis later on that could have been caught much earlier.

I feel like every single little thing that I even vaguely mention gets tested, which is in some ways an incredibly fortunate thing to happen. I spoke to a lot of people when I was writing the book who have the opposite experience of having health anxiety, where they don't get believed at all. They get dismissed only to have serious diagnosis later on that could have been caught much earlier.

So that is definitely a very widespread experience of health anxiety, but it hasn't been mine by and large. Just to give one really minor example, I reported a couple of years back that I could feel strange prickling sensations on the bottom of my feet. And in my head, I thought, oh, this is the beginning of multiple sclerosis or some kind of nerve disease. I mentioned it

So that is definitely a very widespread experience of health anxiety, but it hasn't been mine by and large. Just to give one really minor example, I reported a couple of years back that I could feel strange prickling sensations on the bottom of my feet. And in my head, I thought, oh, this is the beginning of multiple sclerosis or some kind of nerve disease. I mentioned it

So that is definitely a very widespread experience of health anxiety, but it hasn't been mine by and large. Just to give one really minor example, I reported a couple of years back that I could feel strange prickling sensations on the bottom of my feet. And in my head, I thought, oh, this is the beginning of multiple sclerosis or some kind of nerve disease. I mentioned it

in passing to a podiatrist. Three months later, I was sitting in front of a consultant neuroscientist who was checking my reflexes for all the most serious neurological conditions. It sometimes feels a bit like I sort of whisper and they turn it into a shout and I end up getting sent for all kinds of tests that I'd never even imagined, which again feels like an awful thing to complain about.

in passing to a podiatrist. Three months later, I was sitting in front of a consultant neuroscientist who was checking my reflexes for all the most serious neurological conditions. It sometimes feels a bit like I sort of whisper and they turn it into a shout and I end up getting sent for all kinds of tests that I'd never even imagined, which again feels like an awful thing to complain about.

in passing to a podiatrist. Three months later, I was sitting in front of a consultant neuroscientist who was checking my reflexes for all the most serious neurological conditions. It sometimes feels a bit like I sort of whisper and they turn it into a shout and I end up getting sent for all kinds of tests that I'd never even imagined, which again feels like an awful thing to complain about.

But sometimes I do think mentally I could benefit by not being taken quite so seriously.

But sometimes I do think mentally I could benefit by not being taken quite so seriously.

But sometimes I do think mentally I could benefit by not being taken quite so seriously.

I missed all of it this is what is so extraordinary to me in my mind so after the diagnosis I was able with the doctor's help to put together the timeline of what had really happened which was that most likely I had had a bout of glandular fever which is quite common in teenagers and

I missed all of it this is what is so extraordinary to me in my mind so after the diagnosis I was able with the doctor's help to put together the timeline of what had really happened which was that most likely I had had a bout of glandular fever which is quite common in teenagers and