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05-04-13, 14:11
Hello,
It's been a while since I last posted on here but after a period of relative calm brought on by reassuring medical tests and pyschotherapy I'm afraid I find myself back in the doldrums.
I'm currently experiencing what I perceive to be acid reflux/gastritis symptoms - random pains in the chest, often in the middle (both front and back) - a tickly cough, occasional sore throat, etc.
It has been going on for a couple of weeks now and just in the last 24 hours I have noticed a pain in my chest/back very soon after eating food or drinking hot drinks.
In October of last year I underwent the lovely OGD/camera down the throat procedure (without sedation..:doh:) and all was clear, minus a bit of inflammation, and my mind was put as rest seeing as my over-riding fear is Oesophegeal (SP?) cancer having been a smoker until a couple of years ago - giving up at the age of 39 - and enjoying a drink..
I saw my GP yesterday who has put me back on a lowish dose of Omeprazole (the proton-pump inhibitor medication) to settle things down & he told me that if there were anything nasty going on in my gullet it would have been picked up by the test back last Autumn.
He listened to my chest, poked & prodded & said he wasn't concerned. I'm desperate to believe what he says but I just have this morbid fear that in the intervening 5 months since the camera test something's appeared.
I know he's the one with the years of medical experience and training but I'm just back in the middle of awful doubt which I thought I'd managed to overcome with my Health Anxiety therapy. :sad:
Sorry to ramble but I think I just needed to vent..
Thanks.
It's been a while since I last posted on here but after a period of relative calm brought on by reassuring medical tests and pyschotherapy I'm afraid I find myself back in the doldrums.
I'm currently experiencing what I perceive to be acid reflux/gastritis symptoms - random pains in the chest, often in the middle (both front and back) - a tickly cough, occasional sore throat, etc.
It has been going on for a couple of weeks now and just in the last 24 hours I have noticed a pain in my chest/back very soon after eating food or drinking hot drinks.
In October of last year I underwent the lovely OGD/camera down the throat procedure (without sedation..:doh:) and all was clear, minus a bit of inflammation, and my mind was put as rest seeing as my over-riding fear is Oesophegeal (SP?) cancer having been a smoker until a couple of years ago - giving up at the age of 39 - and enjoying a drink..
I saw my GP yesterday who has put me back on a lowish dose of Omeprazole (the proton-pump inhibitor medication) to settle things down & he told me that if there were anything nasty going on in my gullet it would have been picked up by the test back last Autumn.
He listened to my chest, poked & prodded & said he wasn't concerned. I'm desperate to believe what he says but I just have this morbid fear that in the intervening 5 months since the camera test something's appeared.
I know he's the one with the years of medical experience and training but I'm just back in the middle of awful doubt which I thought I'd managed to overcome with my Health Anxiety therapy. :sad:
Sorry to ramble but I think I just needed to vent..
Thanks.