emmie86
24-03-15, 21:35
Hello all I'm new and a life long sufferer of health anxiety. And right no I need talking of a ledge. My most recent issues is near constant heartburn and acid reflux which o course I am convinced are either stomach cancer or oesophageal cancer. It all started around July time at that point I was going to the doctors because despite having my gallbladder removed in 2009 I was still getting symptoms I believed it was pancreatic or liver cancer. I also told the doctor I was suffering frequent heartburn episodes so he put me on 30mg lasoprazole. I was lax in taking them and and was so focused on my other illness I never gave it much thought. After a ultrasound ruled out my pancreatic/liver cancer my relief was short lived. I noticed that missing the lasoprazole caused intense heartburn so I took religiously and felt great no heartburn whilst on it but stop and it was constant. Suddenly this year the NHS did a huge campaign on tv and ads saying heartburn or three or more weeks were signs of stomach oesophageal and alarm bells went off I went to the doctors or the 100th time and he looked concerned and said he would send me o a H'Pylori blood test failing that only option was an endoscopy. However the day of my blood test to my shock I discovered I was pregnant and in all the emotion forgot to attend. You can not take lasoprozol whilst pregnant so I stopped immediately. When I went to the doctors to reschedule my test and register as pregnant I was given a new doctor to see. He told me no test as pretty much everyone has that bacteria that my weight was the issue I am healthy but quite overweight and had put almost two stone on since quitting smoking 6 months earlier he said fruit yoghurt and milk was what I needed so away I went. That was just over a moth ago I'm now 9 and a bit weeks pregnant and have heartburn and reflux all day everyday I live off gaviscon and that only give me relief or an hour max. I'm in tears everyday thinking this is cancer I haven't been back to the doctors as they wont give me ppi's anymore and I can't have an endoscopy while pregnant. with all my past cancer anxieties the symptoms come and go but theses are 24hrs a day everyday. Everyone thinks attention seeking or exaggerating but they don't see me in tears everyday because I think I have a terminal illness. I just don't see how this can't be something serious. Everything I read points to cancer, I'm terrified I'll be one o those poor women in the paper who discover just after giving birth I only have a matter of months let. I really hope someone can talk me down I feel like I'm losing it.