Maddogest
04-02-13, 14:40
Hello! I have been looking at this site for a week or 2 now and it seems to be helping me so i have now gone a step further and actually posted. I find myself needing constant reassurance from Doctors, friends and family and wondered if i could ask for help from a wider circle.
I am a 42 year old mother of 2 and i suppose i have always been a worrier but recently (last couple of months) i've been suffering massive anxieties about my health and think i am dying of cancer. My symptoms are a pain in the back (not there all the time), occasional numbness in the hands and fingers and more recently a tightness in the throat and sore tongue.
I've seen 2 doctors, had fairly comprehensive blood tests including CBC which all came back fine. Both doctors said they are sure i don't have cancer and that if there was anything serious the blood tests would have pointed them to doing further investigations. First question is it definitely the case that a CBC would show something amiss if i had any type of cancer?
And secondly, can symptoms be caused by stress?
Any help would be welcomed as it's killing me and is all I think about.
I am a 42 year old mother of 2 and i suppose i have always been a worrier but recently (last couple of months) i've been suffering massive anxieties about my health and think i am dying of cancer. My symptoms are a pain in the back (not there all the time), occasional numbness in the hands and fingers and more recently a tightness in the throat and sore tongue.
I've seen 2 doctors, had fairly comprehensive blood tests including CBC which all came back fine. Both doctors said they are sure i don't have cancer and that if there was anything serious the blood tests would have pointed them to doing further investigations. First question is it definitely the case that a CBC would show something amiss if i had any type of cancer?
And secondly, can symptoms be caused by stress?
Any help would be welcomed as it's killing me and is all I think about.