Frank TJ
06-08-14, 11:52
As a long-term sufferer of HA, I end up paying visits to my GP way more often than I should as a reasonably healthy 35 year old man (as far as I know!). I mean I’m not talking like every week or anything, but I’d say around 3-4 times over a 12 month period.
My HA can subside for a couple of months at a time, but then a symptom will raise its ugly head and I’m convinced its curtains for me! The best one of recent times was a completely innocuous tiny lesion on my ear lobe that I was convinced was deadly skin cancer… Nope, just a small boil that went away with some anti-bacterial cream prescribed by my GP. But it would have gone away on its own no doubt! Then I end up feeling highly embarrassed that I went to the docs…
Which brings me to the past 7 days when I have been experiencing this nagging occasional stabbing ache/pain in the left upper side of my chest. It went away last week for a few days but then came back with a vengeance yesterday and I ended up thinking I wouldn’t make it through the night last night… my heart was definitely packing up! Cue anxiety attack!
But… I’m still alive today! (I have to laugh at my HA, it’s the only way I can deal with it!)
Still getting the aches and sudden pains in the left side of my chest, but not yet as bad as yesterday. But I really want to go to the docs about it, which brings me to my worry. I’m so embarrassed about going to my docs these days as I think they can see me coming! They must think I’m a right baby as a 35 year old man always going to the docs! I try to see all different docs at my local surgery so I don’t see the same one consecutively, but I know they can all see my records and the ridiculous amount of times I visit!
Basically I’m ashamed every time I go and sometimes won’t go because I’m so embarrassed. But then I am also so very worried about my chest that I want to go! It’s a horrible situation weighing up the embarrassment vs the HA fear. Anyone else face this?
My HA can subside for a couple of months at a time, but then a symptom will raise its ugly head and I’m convinced its curtains for me! The best one of recent times was a completely innocuous tiny lesion on my ear lobe that I was convinced was deadly skin cancer… Nope, just a small boil that went away with some anti-bacterial cream prescribed by my GP. But it would have gone away on its own no doubt! Then I end up feeling highly embarrassed that I went to the docs…
Which brings me to the past 7 days when I have been experiencing this nagging occasional stabbing ache/pain in the left upper side of my chest. It went away last week for a few days but then came back with a vengeance yesterday and I ended up thinking I wouldn’t make it through the night last night… my heart was definitely packing up! Cue anxiety attack!
But… I’m still alive today! (I have to laugh at my HA, it’s the only way I can deal with it!)
Still getting the aches and sudden pains in the left side of my chest, but not yet as bad as yesterday. But I really want to go to the docs about it, which brings me to my worry. I’m so embarrassed about going to my docs these days as I think they can see me coming! They must think I’m a right baby as a 35 year old man always going to the docs! I try to see all different docs at my local surgery so I don’t see the same one consecutively, but I know they can all see my records and the ridiculous amount of times I visit!
Basically I’m ashamed every time I go and sometimes won’t go because I’m so embarrassed. But then I am also so very worried about my chest that I want to go! It’s a horrible situation weighing up the embarrassment vs the HA fear. Anyone else face this?