catwithnotail
21-08-12, 10:16
I have a whole bucket-load of niggles and symptoms at the moment, and as is often the case, I obsess that the root cause is cancer.
I've had a dull ache in the left hand side of my pelvis/hip for about three weeks now. It's more noticeable after prolonged periods of inactivity - so first thing in the morning when getting out of bed it's very annoying. I've also had a bad back/shoulder for a week - and this is on top of now chronic functional abdominal pain.
I'm 38 years old, a smoker and cancer is a near-constant fear. At the moment I'm worried that this is some serious cancer which has spread to my bones.
I don't go to the GP very often, and when I do I never tell them the extent to which I obsess over cancer/my health. I suppose I'm ashamed of feeling like this. I had a few months of extreme anxiety two years ago where I thought about my mortality every day, and eventually presented these symptoms and received anti-anxiety medication. These levelled me out for a while and stopped the mortality fears, but eventually I developed a symptom that I began to think was cancer.
I'm going to have to go to the GP about the hip/pelvis thing soon, just to get it checked out. I just needed to vent my growing anxiety...
Thanks for reading.
I've had a dull ache in the left hand side of my pelvis/hip for about three weeks now. It's more noticeable after prolonged periods of inactivity - so first thing in the morning when getting out of bed it's very annoying. I've also had a bad back/shoulder for a week - and this is on top of now chronic functional abdominal pain.
I'm 38 years old, a smoker and cancer is a near-constant fear. At the moment I'm worried that this is some serious cancer which has spread to my bones.
I don't go to the GP very often, and when I do I never tell them the extent to which I obsess over cancer/my health. I suppose I'm ashamed of feeling like this. I had a few months of extreme anxiety two years ago where I thought about my mortality every day, and eventually presented these symptoms and received anti-anxiety medication. These levelled me out for a while and stopped the mortality fears, but eventually I developed a symptom that I began to think was cancer.
I'm going to have to go to the GP about the hip/pelvis thing soon, just to get it checked out. I just needed to vent my growing anxiety...
Thanks for reading.