A little health anxiety laugh

[middlenamehypochondria]

I have pretty severe health anxiety.  I actually had to have half of my thyroid gland removed due to a large nodule on it, it was pressing on my windpipe and they wanted to rule out cancer, so I had the surgery.  I've actually never worried about thyroid disease.  Anyway on the day of my surgery I was in the pre-op room getting ready and the nurse had to hook me up to a heart monitor.  I was so nervous that my heart began beating so fast it caused the machine to start beeping that something was wrong.  I know myself well enough to know that when ever I go to the doctor my heart races.  Well this nurse was trying to turn it off and she couldn't, she was frantically pushing buttons and it kept beeping louder, I was kind of laughing watching her stress about this beeping and why it was beeping.  I tried telling her I was just nervous.  Well finally she got so flustered she just pulled the whole thing out of the wall.     It was pretty funny to watch.  It still makes me laugh thinking about it.  I know anxiety is awful but sometimes you just need to laugh about things.

[sixpack]

you sure do.   

[AOKAY]

It sure is good to laugh. 
It's also good to know about yourself, which it sounds like you do, having warned the nurses up front that your heart races around doctors. 
When they hooked me up to the heart monitor for my colonscopy I was in a state of panic and my BP was high and my heart rate was over 100 and it stayed that way throughout the procedure.  No one seemed concerned, but after it was all over and my heart stayed at 100, the nurses had a little consultation among themselves and came over to tell me that I should really have my heart checked because there might be something wrong.  Of course, I knew it was panic and told them so and on the ride home my pulse went back to 70.  I know they thought they were providing a service, but had the nurses bothered to look at my chart they would have seen that my heart and BP rise at doctor visits.  For a person not who does not know himself or herself as much as we worriers, being told there may be something wrong with the heart could just create more panic.  (Of course, I asked my doctor about my heart rate on my next visit and he confirmed panic is somewhat common.)
My point is that it is always smart to be up front, as you were and I was not.