[charcoalteeth]

I guess this is hypochondria, but just general anxiety about being an outsider or being seen as the "other" because I'm worried I might have an incurable STD. I've seen seven doctors by this point and all of them are fairly certain that I have nothing, but I've been having physical symptoms for about 4 months now and apparently none of them sound like an STD of any kind. I really am at the end of my rope and my quality of life has been severely affected by all of this. My last relationship was ruined because of the source of my worry. I should have never strayed from my relationship and now I feel like a disgusting person. I don't know what to do. I can't sleep and every day I feel worse about myself and hopeless about my situation.

[Miswimmy1]

have the docs had any other explanation for the physical symptoms that you are experiencing? or could it be that maybe those feelings are coming from the anxiety, and the anxiety is at the bottom of it all? have you considered seeing a pdoc?

[charcoalteeth]

I am seeing a pdoc and she insists that a lot of this is stress...however some physical symptoms I'm having don't seem like they'd have psychological basis. No doctor wants to even investigate other possibilities. They just basically say "go home, the tests we've given you say you have nothing" with the implication that they don't really care to keep looking on my behalf.