Messina
12-01-15, 07:07
Hello, first time poster, long time lurker. I'm a 20 year old male from Finland who would consider themselves generally healthy, despite the seasonally rampant hypochondria.
I've been having different types of stomach and flank pain for the past few weeks. The first pains I remember having was in my lower right back, a dull ache that seemed to intensify when I took a deep breath. After that I had a bit of a scare when I got very sharp pain on my lower right quadrant of my abdomen one night. This pain lasted for a few hours, undulating in intensity. This made me go to the doctors office. The doctor said there's nothing alarming about my symptoms but made me go have my urine sampled. From the urine, they found red blood cells (my urine isn't bright red or anything, but they did find microscopic hematuria).
This, of course, has made me all the more worried. Lately I've been having pain in my back, shifting from the middle of my back to the left and similar pain in my flank (sides, side of the stomach etc.). I've also noticed that sometimes when I urinate, the urine takes a while to get going, I sort of need to give it an extra little push for it to come out. This only happens seemingly randomly. I don't really use the bathroom more than normally (at least I don't think I do). I've also had somewhat of a constipation as of late which raises another plethora of fears and doubts in my mind. I haven't monitored my weight in a while, but I got on a scale today I seemed to have lost some weight from when I last weighed myself.
Googling my symptoms has made me extremely frightened of different cancers, at the moment mainly kidney cancer. Any idea what could be causing any of this? I'm planning on going to see a doctor again if my symptoms continue/I keep losing weight (going to monitor it during this week).
I've been having different types of stomach and flank pain for the past few weeks. The first pains I remember having was in my lower right back, a dull ache that seemed to intensify when I took a deep breath. After that I had a bit of a scare when I got very sharp pain on my lower right quadrant of my abdomen one night. This pain lasted for a few hours, undulating in intensity. This made me go to the doctors office. The doctor said there's nothing alarming about my symptoms but made me go have my urine sampled. From the urine, they found red blood cells (my urine isn't bright red or anything, but they did find microscopic hematuria).
This, of course, has made me all the more worried. Lately I've been having pain in my back, shifting from the middle of my back to the left and similar pain in my flank (sides, side of the stomach etc.). I've also noticed that sometimes when I urinate, the urine takes a while to get going, I sort of need to give it an extra little push for it to come out. This only happens seemingly randomly. I don't really use the bathroom more than normally (at least I don't think I do). I've also had somewhat of a constipation as of late which raises another plethora of fears and doubts in my mind. I haven't monitored my weight in a while, but I got on a scale today I seemed to have lost some weight from when I last weighed myself.
Googling my symptoms has made me extremely frightened of different cancers, at the moment mainly kidney cancer. Any idea what could be causing any of this? I'm planning on going to see a doctor again if my symptoms continue/I keep losing weight (going to monitor it during this week).