I don't know if I'm a hypochondriac or have a serious problem. I'm scared that I have a kind of amoeba that eats the brain. It can be gotten from swimming in lakes during the summer months, and last Saturday, I'd gone swimming. Ever since then, I've been terrified. I looked up some of the symptoms (stiff neck; loss of appetite; headache) and my neck has been aching, but not to the point of being a stiff neck, and I've barely eaten anything since Monday. I think I've had a slight headache, but it seems to be just a tension headache caused by stress, and it goes away if I take some Ibuprofen. I don't know if I'm being a hypochondriac or I'm seriously ill.

My neck had been aching slightly since the night before I knew that it was a symptom. It's not my entire neck; it's just toward the back of my neck, near where it meets my torso. I'm not sure why I haven't been eating, although that could be stress. I live with my family, and don't have the money to pay for a doctor's visit, so I'm not sure what to do. The amoeba is so rare that it doesn't even effect one out of every one hundred million people, but I'm still scared. If anyone can offer me some kind of