seeker
05-09-14, 01:16
Hello everyone
I've done really well with my health anxiety and haven't needed to post on here for ages. However, I have been quite stressed lately and think this has brought my HA bubbling back up. Anyway, I have been feeling under the weather for a while with a feeling of 'congestion' in particular spots around my body - my neck, my groin and my abdomen in particular. I could never feel any raised glands or lumps, they just didn't feel quite right. I also have really odd sore 'spots' in my muscles - the same spot each time, on my thighs and arms. We had lots of friends round at the weekend and we all jumped in a hot tub together (nothing dodgy, I promise!) and the water was a bit grim the next day. Since then, I have got four glands sore and pea sized under my right arm. I have a weird severe pain (that I only feel when I lean on something or twist a certain way - it's definitely not muscular) in my upper left quadrant that I am convinced is either my pancreas or lymph glands there, and I also have a slight breathlessness that I am now convinced is caused by some large lymph glands pressing on my lungs. I really want my GP to refer me for an MRI - I am prepared to pay privately, but they keep putting me off. I went to them recently about an odd lump on my leg that turned out to be a slight hardening of soft tissue, for no apparent reason.
Can you all come and reassure me and give me more realistic explanations!? I did go to the GP today, but had to see the advanced nurse practitioner who suggested a burst ovarian cyst, but then ruined my confidence in her by telling me my pancreas was on the opposite side to the one it actually is on...
I've done really well with my health anxiety and haven't needed to post on here for ages. However, I have been quite stressed lately and think this has brought my HA bubbling back up. Anyway, I have been feeling under the weather for a while with a feeling of 'congestion' in particular spots around my body - my neck, my groin and my abdomen in particular. I could never feel any raised glands or lumps, they just didn't feel quite right. I also have really odd sore 'spots' in my muscles - the same spot each time, on my thighs and arms. We had lots of friends round at the weekend and we all jumped in a hot tub together (nothing dodgy, I promise!) and the water was a bit grim the next day. Since then, I have got four glands sore and pea sized under my right arm. I have a weird severe pain (that I only feel when I lean on something or twist a certain way - it's definitely not muscular) in my upper left quadrant that I am convinced is either my pancreas or lymph glands there, and I also have a slight breathlessness that I am now convinced is caused by some large lymph glands pressing on my lungs. I really want my GP to refer me for an MRI - I am prepared to pay privately, but they keep putting me off. I went to them recently about an odd lump on my leg that turned out to be a slight hardening of soft tissue, for no apparent reason.
Can you all come and reassure me and give me more realistic explanations!? I did go to the GP today, but had to see the advanced nurse practitioner who suggested a burst ovarian cyst, but then ruined my confidence in her by telling me my pancreas was on the opposite side to the one it actually is on...