Bloods!

[zippy]

I have been worrying about my head symptoms thinking I have a brain tumour. My gp did neuro tests, had eyes tested and all ok. He agreed to do my bloods to reassure me and said if something is going on my bloods would indicate it and then investigate further.
Just phoned and they are ok. I can't believe I feel so ill and they are fine.

[illgetthere]

Same thing happend to me zippy x

[zippy]

I was certain something would show up illgetthere. Trouble is I know it still won't be enough to convince me. I thought I would have been delighted but I don't feel it, I just feel ill

[perpetualthinker]

It's a vicious circle i'm afraid. I had the same problem as you and even though I had a brain scan which proved I didn't have a brain tumour I then fixated on other illnesses I might have. I suppose you just have to have faith in the doctor's diagnosis which though hard, is the only way you'll feel happier.

[zippy]

He only did the bloods to reassure me because I asked. He offered me a ct brain scan too but said only to reassure me but said how long would I be reassured for. I am trying not to have it.
I suppose something would be wrong on my bloods from my last bloods which was in June.

[perpetualthinker]

It's a toughie. If there's medically nothing wrong with you then you seem to have hypochondria. I have/had it and it's a monster of a condition as it make's mountains out of mole hills. What I found helped was recognising that I had this condition and once you can accept it you can start to deal with it.

[zippy]

I know I have health anxiety because I have been here before only I always think this time it's differenr because I had different symptoms last time.

[perpetualthinker]

Hmmm well you know your body best. What I found helped my hypochondria was reading 3 men in a boat by jerome k. jerome. The main character has it and this excerpt sums it up perfectly (sorry for length):
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine
advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am
suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most
virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly
with all the sensations that I have ever felt.

I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment
for some slight ailment of which I had a touch - hay fever, I fancy it
was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an
unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently
study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I
plunged into - some fearful, devastating scourge, I know - and, before I
had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in
upon me that I had fairly got it.

I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of
despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever - read
the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for
months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St.
Vitus's Dance - found, as I expected, that I had that too, - began to get
interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so
started alphabetically - read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening
for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another
fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a
modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years.
Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have
been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six
letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was
housemaid's knee.

I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of
slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious
reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I
reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I
grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout,
in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my
being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from
boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there
was nothing else the matter with me.

I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a
medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class!
Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I
was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me,
and, after that, take their diploma".

[zippy]

That's just it I don't think I do know my own body because I have been so certain in the past that I was dying and turned out I wasn't. But I always think because I have different symptoms that I am this time and it's going to be missed.

[chl_hobbs]

Ziggy Im the same at the moment. Have been dizzy for months now, and recently have had a headache in the same spot on my head for over 7 days. I wake up and wait for it to start. All the symptoms point to a tumour. Ive had bloods too (for other things) and they are normal. I also had a brain ct scan in October 2012 after suffering the most awful migraine. It was normal. However, now it feels different, and has been going on and on.... Would a tumour have grown in 4 months and cause such symptoms? Am going to gp today but doubt he'll be able to help... Im also worried I might have a brain bleed - a slow one or something. Im interested to know, what specific blood test was he looking at to determine that it wasnt a tumour???? Charlottex

[zippy]

I think he said the inflammation markers would be sky high.