Twinsmummy
25-02-13, 09:51
Hello all
I am sorry to be whingeing early on a Monday morning but would be so grateful for any advice that can scrape me off the ceiling as I am going insane.
I started to have indigestion around a very stressful time in August. By November I was burping up food and felt like I had a lump in my throat, but no acid feeling or heartburn. Around the same time I was diagnosed with a fairly large gallstone but my GP said the two were unrelated. She said it was classic GERD despite no burning and prescribed omeprezole and after a couple of days the regurgitating and lump feeling were much better, but I had a terrible upper abdominal pain, so bad I couldn't finish the course. To cut a long story short, I went through the same thing with laporazole, so I came off all of them. I saw a different GP who said that the medication would have sorted reflux or an ulcer and ordered urgent blood tests including amalayse to check my pancreas but they all came back clear. By this time the upper abdominal pain between my ribs was awful and was also between my shoulder blades and I was starting to have sporadic pain at the bottom of my left ribs.
I then foolishly googled pancreatic cancer and am now terrified. The symptoms seem to be pain in the upper abdomen, radiating through to the upper back, pain on the left flank. It doesn't necessarily show in blood tests either. I also had a white poo once (sorry) and keep getting horrible yellow diarrhea that I don't remember having ever before. I have days where I am exhausted and I am struggling to concentrate on anything.
I know the odds of this type of cancer are very slim and that I have probably fixated on this as it has such a poor prognosis and has such vague symptoms but I am truly scared.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Cx
I am sorry to be whingeing early on a Monday morning but would be so grateful for any advice that can scrape me off the ceiling as I am going insane.
I started to have indigestion around a very stressful time in August. By November I was burping up food and felt like I had a lump in my throat, but no acid feeling or heartburn. Around the same time I was diagnosed with a fairly large gallstone but my GP said the two were unrelated. She said it was classic GERD despite no burning and prescribed omeprezole and after a couple of days the regurgitating and lump feeling were much better, but I had a terrible upper abdominal pain, so bad I couldn't finish the course. To cut a long story short, I went through the same thing with laporazole, so I came off all of them. I saw a different GP who said that the medication would have sorted reflux or an ulcer and ordered urgent blood tests including amalayse to check my pancreas but they all came back clear. By this time the upper abdominal pain between my ribs was awful and was also between my shoulder blades and I was starting to have sporadic pain at the bottom of my left ribs.
I then foolishly googled pancreatic cancer and am now terrified. The symptoms seem to be pain in the upper abdomen, radiating through to the upper back, pain on the left flank. It doesn't necessarily show in blood tests either. I also had a white poo once (sorry) and keep getting horrible yellow diarrhea that I don't remember having ever before. I have days where I am exhausted and I am struggling to concentrate on anything.
I know the odds of this type of cancer are very slim and that I have probably fixated on this as it has such a poor prognosis and has such vague symptoms but I am truly scared.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Cx