Still Worrying

[LisaLisa]

Hey

Honestly you will be fine. You are very very very anxious and your mind is playing tricks on you promise. Adrenaline causes loads of weird aches and pains and you havent eaten or anything you will just keep feeling worse and worse if you dont give yourself a break, you dont deserve to keep telling yourself you have this problem, you dont have ANY of the symptoms from your description AT ALL!! You most likely, if you are anything like me, are just acutely aware of the harmless ache because you are sooooooo worried about it.

Its okay its just HA!!

lISA
XX

[kittykat]

I also just noticed that my sore breast is a bit larger, i really do have a lot of the symptoms, ive just had a huge argument with my hubby as well telling me to calm down but i cant, im so scared still , what can i do to get rid of this fear going round and round in my head and why is my diazepam not calming me down? x

[belle]

I've had LOADS of symptoms in the past to MANY illnesses and its funny, 'cause as soon as i read about another symptom, i could bet a million pounds within a day (maximum) i WILL have that new thing i read about!

The mind is a very powerful thing and will cling onto all the things you fear and make them reality, thats what it does.

You read about visable veins, you have them, you read about one breast larger than the other (although that is perfectly normal and so is prominant veins) and you have them...

If you're that worried and you seem to be that way, tell the doctor you think you have breast cancer and see what he does then.

x

[eurotrashcub]

"I have pain in the right upper part of my body, therefore it must be cancer"

Read the statement and imagine one of your friends tell you that. What would you say?

Chances are that your pain is muscular. Tense your musles around the area. Does it get worse when you do? That would prove it is muscular but even if does not get worse, it does not mean you have cancer.

Try to relax and think objectively. And if it does not go away in another week or so, why don't you call NHS direct or see your practise nurse or GP if you are really worried about it? This will reassure you.

And do not google!

In a month you will be laughing about this health anxiety, although unfortunately you might have moved on to another one!

Hugs and chin up!

[Stressed32]

What about coffee & caffine...they make boobs hurt too.

[eurotrashcub]

Does it? I know nothing about boobs!

[kittykat]

Okay , went to the doctors there and told her about my boob how i've had the pain for a fortnight anyway ended up breaking down in floods of tears talk about feeling like an idiot and explained that I just hated feeling like this how everything had gotten on top of me, she asked what could have caused me to feel like this again ( wasn''t my usual doctor) and told her I was struggling to cope after my mum dying etc and i was constantly almost ocd checking again and thinking everything was cancer and the anxiety was crippling at the moment, basically told me that I shouldn't be feeling like this after 6mths and "" should be getting over it"" .....she then examined my breasts and said everything felt fine but if the pain persisted that it would have to be looked into more. I've came out with a prescription for fluoxetine and still feel completely worried as she never really said what could be causing the breast and underarm pain. I've to go back in another month as the fluoxetine needs to be reviewed , i'll make sure it's my own doctor but if it was an inflammatory breast cancer would it spread in that month and be untreatable, help........ Lastly can I just say how great you guys all are if it wasn't for everyone on here I honestly don't know where i'd be just now, so hugs to you all xx

[sahara]

Hi Kittykat,

I am sorry I can't give you any advice over your boobs, but the Dr is wrong wrong wrong. You don't get over your Mum dying in 6 months. Rubbish.

My Mum died at the end of November and it has triggered all my HA again so I understand so much where you are coming from.

I miss my Mum soooo much it hurts every day. She got diagnosed with lung cancer and died 12 days later. It has been the worst 5 months of my life. My world has been turned upside down.

Within 5 days of her dying I had pains everywhere in my chest, connvinced myself it was lung cancer, spoke to my Dr and he reassured me and said that most people get these symptoms and oh boy within 3 days I had those instead. (he probably said the wrong thing to me, but he was only trying to help and he is the best Dr ever)

Our minds are very powerful things and then can create all sorts of symptoms pains and goodness knows what else. Well 5 months later all those wicked symptoms have gone and I have found something else to worry about my health totally not to do with lung cancer.

My Dr has told me off for being to hard on myself. He siad why are you expecting to be over loosing you Mum so quickly, it takes a very very long time.

Hugs xxxx

[sahara]

Within 5 days of her dying I had pains everywhere in my chest, connvinced myself it was lung cancer, spoke to my Dr and he reassured me and said that most people get these symptoms and oh boy within 3 days I had those instead.

I meant to say my Dr said you don't get the symptoms I was describing and said if I had lung cancer I would get symptom blah blah instead. So I got those symptoms as well. Hope that makes better sense.

[kittykat]

Thanks for that Sahara, and i'm sorry that you've lost your mum as well not easy, i just wanted a bit piece of mind but i've really not gotten it and feel i've been fobbed off with the prozac,as soon as i told her i was anxious i don''t think she took me seriously she wasn''t even going to examine my boob and underarm.....i mean something is causing the pain, can''t do the cbt because it''s the same therapist and i didn't get on with her that well so don't know if i can try another therapy like a psychologist......next time i'll definately go to my own doctor as he's brill but just wanted an appointment as soon as possible as i was worrying all weekend and guess what i still am x