MRI, Colonoscopy and Endoscopy Results....

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I saw my doctor on the 24th to get my results for the MRI, Colonoscopy and Endoscopy. MRI (brain scan) was fine. Thank goodness! Colonoscopy was fine! Endoscopy did show some inflammation. Some esophagus reflux? I'm still not understanding. So not exactly acid reflux in the stomach but reflux up in the esophagus? Anyway, I was told it was mild and nothing to be concerned about but to still try adjust things about me to help it. Which is fine. I asked my doctor if this was the reason for making me so sick since November as well as recently as I had been feeling even more sick after the Colonoscopy and Endoscopy. She told me that wouldn't be the reason. I asked if any other tests could be done and she told me she really has done everything. Long story short, I had my 1st part of the Stress Echocardiogram on the 23rd and the 2nd part was done today (will explain that all later in another post), but my doctor feels those results will be fine too. But she spoke to me about something called Somatic Symptom Disorder. Which I had never heard of before. I will copy and paste this from a site as I'm still learning myself. "Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a mental health condition in which a person feels significantly distressed about physical symptoms and has abnormal thoughts, feelings and behaviors in response to them. The disorder disrupts their daily functioning and quality of life. Although a person with somatic symptom disorder reports symptoms, the symptoms may have no medical explanation or be normal body sensations or discomfort. Even when there’s a medical cause, the person’s worry is out of proportion to the symptom. People with somatic symptom disorder are often unaware of their underlying mental health condition and believe that they have serious physical ailments. The distress often causes them to visit multiple healthcare providers and to have many medical tests and unnecessary procedures." Which was / is exactly what has been going on. For almost 7 months I was in such distress every single day feeling so sick to eventually burning, weakness, numbness, tingling, palpations and pain around my body. (there were 3 things that were found for real in my body, 3 infections but everything else, was nothing). But really even way before November, in June (I think) I fainted due to loss of fluids due to a possible stomach bug and my dad tells me I changed after that. My anxiety about health completely changed to severe health anxiety and thinking the worst. Could it have been due to losing my beautiful Leilah and nearly losing my Poppy causing my health anxiety to get out of control? Maybe. I don't know how to pin point what caused this all exactly. I am grateful nothing serious was found. I noticed after my doctor spoke to me about Somatic Symptom Disorder, that only days later some symptoms were becoming less. I am still sick everyday and weird aches here and there but it's less than before. It's like my brain knowing a name to something is giving the symptoms less power. Being told this whole time "It must be anxiety" wasn't enough for me because it's not the anxiety I'm used to. I felt it was something else and something serious! Things were rough last year. Too much happened. And sadly more stressful things are going on now (will explain another time) but I'm trying my best to eliminate as much stress as possible and get back to how I was before. I may have a better idea of what my brain and body has been doing but doesn't mean I'm better instantly. It will take a bit more time. Thank you kindly for reading. Info about SSD from: