MyThreeSons2007
15-11-13, 14:34
Here we go again....
Every cold is cancer, every pain is a tumor...so fed up with my nonsense.
But in the moment of fear, I can't fight it. And right now, I am in that moment of fear. I can't concentrate on anything else.
My family and I have had colds with bad coughs for almost a month now...my littlest and I have been sick for a month tomorrow, my husband and middle son for about 2 weeks and my oldest for about 1 week. We have had varying symptoms, but the cough is affecting us all, some worse than others.
Yesterday, I seemed to take a turn for the worse and my nose was all stuffed up. I have terrible post-nasal drip and a hacking cough (cough used to be really wet and yucky but for the most part now, is dry with some mucous here and there). This morning, I coughed up some yellow/beige phlegm with a tiny spot of orange. Of course, now I am fixated and have coughed up a tiny, tiny streak of blood, which I analyzed and have been panicking about.
I am a smoker (stupid cow) and am convinced I am dying now. I don't have a bloody nose or any blood at all when I blow my nose. The sensible side of me says, "You have been coughing for a month now, you've probably irritated your throat and that's where the TINY bit of blood is from!" But, the stupid health anxiety side says, "Plan your funeral, it's lung cancer."
I have no trouble breathing and no pain, except on the sides of my throat/neck that feels like muscle ache (from all the coughing maybe?)
Someone talk me off the ledge. Tell me I'm being ridiculous, will you? :blush:
Thanks in advance.
Every cold is cancer, every pain is a tumor...so fed up with my nonsense.
But in the moment of fear, I can't fight it. And right now, I am in that moment of fear. I can't concentrate on anything else.
My family and I have had colds with bad coughs for almost a month now...my littlest and I have been sick for a month tomorrow, my husband and middle son for about 2 weeks and my oldest for about 1 week. We have had varying symptoms, but the cough is affecting us all, some worse than others.
Yesterday, I seemed to take a turn for the worse and my nose was all stuffed up. I have terrible post-nasal drip and a hacking cough (cough used to be really wet and yucky but for the most part now, is dry with some mucous here and there). This morning, I coughed up some yellow/beige phlegm with a tiny spot of orange. Of course, now I am fixated and have coughed up a tiny, tiny streak of blood, which I analyzed and have been panicking about.
I am a smoker (stupid cow) and am convinced I am dying now. I don't have a bloody nose or any blood at all when I blow my nose. The sensible side of me says, "You have been coughing for a month now, you've probably irritated your throat and that's where the TINY bit of blood is from!" But, the stupid health anxiety side says, "Plan your funeral, it's lung cancer."
I have no trouble breathing and no pain, except on the sides of my throat/neck that feels like muscle ache (from all the coughing maybe?)
Someone talk me off the ledge. Tell me I'm being ridiculous, will you? :blush:
Thanks in advance.