lcann25
28-07-14, 03:19
Hello everyone,
My health Anxiety is back in full swing again now.. I've been having tenderness under my left ribcage for a while now, so I went to the Doctor about it and upon feeling around, mentioned that he thought he could feel my spleen... :ohmy: which he shouldn't be able to. He sent me for an ultrasound. I went and had this done and then all of a sudden they call me and left a message while I was out of town saying they want to further investigate the mass on my spleen by doing a CT scan. I was like WHAT?!?! ----- MASS?!?! so now I am totally losing it about this. So I of course googled spleen issues and read about everything from Rheumatoid Arthritis to Lymphoma!! all of which do not sound good. And to really get the mind going, there is lots of Cancer on my Dad's side of the family, but practically none on my Mom's side.. I know you can live without a spleen, but it's there to filter out a lot of bacteria and other things and keep you from getting sick. So of course if they have to remove it, now I'm going to be paranoid that I'm going to be getting sick all the time. Gah!! I hate this!! I really wish they wouldn't have used the word "mass". Enlarged sounds so much better. I know ultrasound is a pretty basic way to see things and I really need to relax till we see what the CT shows, but I am totally in panic mode over this. Can anyone offer any words of wisdom? this is an awesome forum and I don't know what I'd do without it!! Thanks everyone
My health Anxiety is back in full swing again now.. I've been having tenderness under my left ribcage for a while now, so I went to the Doctor about it and upon feeling around, mentioned that he thought he could feel my spleen... :ohmy: which he shouldn't be able to. He sent me for an ultrasound. I went and had this done and then all of a sudden they call me and left a message while I was out of town saying they want to further investigate the mass on my spleen by doing a CT scan. I was like WHAT?!?! ----- MASS?!?! so now I am totally losing it about this. So I of course googled spleen issues and read about everything from Rheumatoid Arthritis to Lymphoma!! all of which do not sound good. And to really get the mind going, there is lots of Cancer on my Dad's side of the family, but practically none on my Mom's side.. I know you can live without a spleen, but it's there to filter out a lot of bacteria and other things and keep you from getting sick. So of course if they have to remove it, now I'm going to be paranoid that I'm going to be getting sick all the time. Gah!! I hate this!! I really wish they wouldn't have used the word "mass". Enlarged sounds so much better. I know ultrasound is a pretty basic way to see things and I really need to relax till we see what the CT shows, but I am totally in panic mode over this. Can anyone offer any words of wisdom? this is an awesome forum and I don't know what I'd do without it!! Thanks everyone