em79prez
29-08-14, 14:15
Hi all
Ok so i posted few weeks back as i had a health scare that turned out fine but that id been stressing over other symptoms that i wasn't sure if they were anxiety related or not!
Anyway ive been back dr as i could feel a swollen node in my collarbone area on left and of course google freaked me out. Ita also same side ive been getting neck collarbone and arm aching. My skin has felt pretty weird too like sunburnt but im not.
So gp said all felt normal to him he wasnt concerned and thinks all anxiety related but in fairness to him he said he would investigate for me as he could see i was worried. So he re did my bloods (in mid june my wbc was slightly up so that had me worried) and he sent me for chest shoulder and cervical spine xray. So bloods were all totally fine wbc was down from 11.7 to 8.8 so defo in normal range. Chest xray clear and other xrays fine. Ive also had in june an ultrasound on neck due to the thyroid lump that started all this and they reported no cervical lympathy on that at time.
So knowing im still concerned gp said he refer me to a haemo as they be experts in this kind of thing but he said hes no concerns and is 99% sure i dont have lymphoma. He said pain down arm would only happen from very large node putting pressure on arm and he wasnt worried over burning skin thing.
So i went haemo last week he felt all around my stomach and pelvis had me move my neck around and he felt around collarbone and he said he felt nothing that would concern him. He said for my peace of mind he get ct scan done and take extra bloods but that he would be amazed if i had anything. I can still feel few lumps in left side of collarbone... have some on right side too but left worse but 2 docs are telling me its nothing. So had ct scan yest and more bloods so have to wait for results now and im totally sick with worry something is going to come up. My boyfriend and family are amazed at why im so worried as everything so far has been positive. I felt haemo just grazed his hands over the area whereas i be prodding but i guess they the experts.
My main concern is the skin thing this has me freaked as my skin feels irritated on chest arms hands tops of legs even my feet now its not bad bad itching im not actually itching it perhaps im too scared to incase it starts it all off then but feels like my skin is sunburnt. Gotten worse last week or so and of course Google hasnt helped. boyfriend keeps saying its stress but can stress really cause this and continous like its everyday? ? Ive saw some posts about burning itchy skin but most people only seem to have it a day or so.
even typing this im thinking people must think im mad but cant help having bad feeling about this but then is that my stress too??
i guess just looking for reassurance from people who understand .. pretty scared right now.
sorry for long post
Emma
Ok so i posted few weeks back as i had a health scare that turned out fine but that id been stressing over other symptoms that i wasn't sure if they were anxiety related or not!
Anyway ive been back dr as i could feel a swollen node in my collarbone area on left and of course google freaked me out. Ita also same side ive been getting neck collarbone and arm aching. My skin has felt pretty weird too like sunburnt but im not.
So gp said all felt normal to him he wasnt concerned and thinks all anxiety related but in fairness to him he said he would investigate for me as he could see i was worried. So he re did my bloods (in mid june my wbc was slightly up so that had me worried) and he sent me for chest shoulder and cervical spine xray. So bloods were all totally fine wbc was down from 11.7 to 8.8 so defo in normal range. Chest xray clear and other xrays fine. Ive also had in june an ultrasound on neck due to the thyroid lump that started all this and they reported no cervical lympathy on that at time.
So knowing im still concerned gp said he refer me to a haemo as they be experts in this kind of thing but he said hes no concerns and is 99% sure i dont have lymphoma. He said pain down arm would only happen from very large node putting pressure on arm and he wasnt worried over burning skin thing.
So i went haemo last week he felt all around my stomach and pelvis had me move my neck around and he felt around collarbone and he said he felt nothing that would concern him. He said for my peace of mind he get ct scan done and take extra bloods but that he would be amazed if i had anything. I can still feel few lumps in left side of collarbone... have some on right side too but left worse but 2 docs are telling me its nothing. So had ct scan yest and more bloods so have to wait for results now and im totally sick with worry something is going to come up. My boyfriend and family are amazed at why im so worried as everything so far has been positive. I felt haemo just grazed his hands over the area whereas i be prodding but i guess they the experts.
My main concern is the skin thing this has me freaked as my skin feels irritated on chest arms hands tops of legs even my feet now its not bad bad itching im not actually itching it perhaps im too scared to incase it starts it all off then but feels like my skin is sunburnt. Gotten worse last week or so and of course Google hasnt helped. boyfriend keeps saying its stress but can stress really cause this and continous like its everyday? ? Ive saw some posts about burning itchy skin but most people only seem to have it a day or so.
even typing this im thinking people must think im mad but cant help having bad feeling about this but then is that my stress too??
i guess just looking for reassurance from people who understand .. pretty scared right now.
sorry for long post
Emma