sizzling
27-12-14, 17:21
Hi,
I'm hoping that you may be able to advise what you would do in my situation. I've suffered badly from health anxiety for the past few years, two years ago I had surgery on my jaw to fix an overbite. A few months later I noticed that I had a lot of phlegm in my throat all the time which I would regularly need to spit out. I also felt blocked across my sinuses.
This carried on for a few more months before I first noticed blood streaks in the phlegm. It only happened once so I hoped that would be it. A few months later it happened again, after numerous trips to the doctors who were baffled I ended up being referred to an ent. I spoke to the surgeon who did the operation and he said it would not be connected with that.
The ent performed a chest x ray, barium swallow and used a tube to have a look at my nose and throat. Everything looked fine and they didn't have a clue what the problem was. In the end the only solution they had was to suggest an operation where they could have a proper look around, however the ent was not in favour of this and said it could well cause more damage than good.
This was around a year ago since then the pattern has continued. Every few months my phlegm has streaks of blood. It happens for the one day, it's not a lot of blood maybe about 1cm by 1/2 a cm. After this there is then nothing for a few months, the latest episode was on Monday which had set me off worrying again.
Every time this really upsets me as it just doesn't seem normal and I'm a big health anxiety worrier anyway so the two combined are not good. What would you do? Do I go back to the doctors? How can I stop worrying when I don't know what it is and it keeps continuing? I have this horrible fear it will turn out to be something sinister which had been missed. Help!
I'm hoping that you may be able to advise what you would do in my situation. I've suffered badly from health anxiety for the past few years, two years ago I had surgery on my jaw to fix an overbite. A few months later I noticed that I had a lot of phlegm in my throat all the time which I would regularly need to spit out. I also felt blocked across my sinuses.
This carried on for a few more months before I first noticed blood streaks in the phlegm. It only happened once so I hoped that would be it. A few months later it happened again, after numerous trips to the doctors who were baffled I ended up being referred to an ent. I spoke to the surgeon who did the operation and he said it would not be connected with that.
The ent performed a chest x ray, barium swallow and used a tube to have a look at my nose and throat. Everything looked fine and they didn't have a clue what the problem was. In the end the only solution they had was to suggest an operation where they could have a proper look around, however the ent was not in favour of this and said it could well cause more damage than good.
This was around a year ago since then the pattern has continued. Every few months my phlegm has streaks of blood. It happens for the one day, it's not a lot of blood maybe about 1cm by 1/2 a cm. After this there is then nothing for a few months, the latest episode was on Monday which had set me off worrying again.
Every time this really upsets me as it just doesn't seem normal and I'm a big health anxiety worrier anyway so the two combined are not good. What would you do? Do I go back to the doctors? How can I stop worrying when I don't know what it is and it keeps continuing? I have this horrible fear it will turn out to be something sinister which had been missed. Help!