Polaris
01-12-11, 15:12
Hi all. I'm not sure exactly what I hope to achieve with this. Perhaps just typing everything out will help somewhat.
I'm 28 and near to convinced I have lung cancer. I recently quit smoking but picked them back up again due to the stress. I really want to put them down for good though...
I'm currently backpacking through Europe. I got here from Australia a week ago. Since then I've been getting blood in my nose each morning. I've been travelling around Scandinavia, and from googling I've seen that cold dry air, or air dried from heaters can cause this. I had it before I left, but I'm pretty sure that was due to too much blowing/poking etc.
I've also been getting upper back pain. I'm lugging around baggage every second day, sleeping on a different bed every 3-4 nights, so I try to tell myself that I'm straining myself from it, but that doesn't help a lot. I'm prone to back pain too, so it feels a bit daft worrying now...
I lost my mother earlier this year due to a heart attack. I was put on medication for anxiety a few months before that. When I think about it all logically, I see that its all the anxiety. Then I think, 'What if its not...?' Being on the otherside of the world isnt exactly helping me a lot either. Ugh. I'm trying to get past it, but I feel like its ruining my trip.
I'm 28 and near to convinced I have lung cancer. I recently quit smoking but picked them back up again due to the stress. I really want to put them down for good though...
I'm currently backpacking through Europe. I got here from Australia a week ago. Since then I've been getting blood in my nose each morning. I've been travelling around Scandinavia, and from googling I've seen that cold dry air, or air dried from heaters can cause this. I had it before I left, but I'm pretty sure that was due to too much blowing/poking etc.
I've also been getting upper back pain. I'm lugging around baggage every second day, sleeping on a different bed every 3-4 nights, so I try to tell myself that I'm straining myself from it, but that doesn't help a lot. I'm prone to back pain too, so it feels a bit daft worrying now...
I lost my mother earlier this year due to a heart attack. I was put on medication for anxiety a few months before that. When I think about it all logically, I see that its all the anxiety. Then I think, 'What if its not...?' Being on the otherside of the world isnt exactly helping me a lot either. Ugh. I'm trying to get past it, but I feel like its ruining my trip.