chipster
01-04-15, 14:40
Hi All
So my symptons seemed to start after Jan this year
I was(am) overweight (240lbs) so I wanted to do a major change to my lifestyle im 48. I had given up cigarettes in Aug which I was over the moon about doing I eat everything in site and wanted to change
What I was doing in the new year.
New year came around and off I trotted going to the Gym and cycling every other day. It lasted about 4 weeks before I had a cold and then I felt I was having a kidney infection or urine infection but it didn’t hurt when I peed.
I put off going to the Dr’s for a week or so then made the appointment.
I had a urine test and she said you have minute blood in there so put me on antibiotics for a week (nitrofurantoin) that seemed to trigger something as I couldn’t stop looking at symptons. A few days after that
My stomach felt bloated and I had abdominal cramps and lose stools (no fever) this went on for a couple of weeks and the Dr said come back and we’ll look at it again. In between my hospital appointment came through
To have a couple of moles on my face checked and they agreed to remove them. My stomach felt like it was on a train ride gurgling fizzing pain in my back kidney area and below shoulder blade.
Visited the Dr who checked my urine again and said its clear. Told her about the other symptons and being I hadn’t had any blood work in 10 years sent me off to the hospital for complete blood work.
Anxiety levels go up and my appetite disappears and I feel I want to go to the toilet every 15 minutes. My sleep is disrupted and I wake up and look at the clock every hour.
My symptons kept going while I waited for the result to come back. I rang a few days after and I got the receptionist saying its abnormal and to come in. im sure everyone says whats abnormal and they then tell me they cant tell my why as they are not qualified. I get a walk in appointment and the dr explains my lft is high on alt 76 I think it was not too worried on anything else. She wants to do a test in a few weeks which I umm an arghh about so she says lets do an ultrasound of my abdomen .
My anxiety is still high as I wonder what it is an google everything and convince myself its cancer and I cant think of anything else and my wife is getting fed up of me speaking about nothing else. I have the ultrasound and the guy says
I cant see anything ominous ( my relief). Whilst im waiting for my Dr to call I still have no appetite eating once in the day as I just don’t feel hungry and still with lose stools. Something which is helping is walking in the evening with my dog
And we will go out maybe an hour to an hour and a half I do that 7 days a week and I have lost about 25 lbs in this time (about 3 months). So this week I go to the Dr and they discovered a polyp (just 1) on my gallbladder and they want to see me for repeat
Scan in 6 months or so and see if it has grown. She sent me today for repeat blood test for liver function and Bone profile and acute LFT (hepatitis ) I am now panicking about cancer again (lung cancer, bone cancer) and never heard of bone profile and all sorts of things come up on
Google (I know but I cant stop). So I assume next week the result will come in and I just feel awful and a tight feeling in my throat all the time.
I know this I long and sorry to bore people but if you made it this far thank you for reading.
So my symptons seemed to start after Jan this year
I was(am) overweight (240lbs) so I wanted to do a major change to my lifestyle im 48. I had given up cigarettes in Aug which I was over the moon about doing I eat everything in site and wanted to change
What I was doing in the new year.
New year came around and off I trotted going to the Gym and cycling every other day. It lasted about 4 weeks before I had a cold and then I felt I was having a kidney infection or urine infection but it didn’t hurt when I peed.
I put off going to the Dr’s for a week or so then made the appointment.
I had a urine test and she said you have minute blood in there so put me on antibiotics for a week (nitrofurantoin) that seemed to trigger something as I couldn’t stop looking at symptons. A few days after that
My stomach felt bloated and I had abdominal cramps and lose stools (no fever) this went on for a couple of weeks and the Dr said come back and we’ll look at it again. In between my hospital appointment came through
To have a couple of moles on my face checked and they agreed to remove them. My stomach felt like it was on a train ride gurgling fizzing pain in my back kidney area and below shoulder blade.
Visited the Dr who checked my urine again and said its clear. Told her about the other symptons and being I hadn’t had any blood work in 10 years sent me off to the hospital for complete blood work.
Anxiety levels go up and my appetite disappears and I feel I want to go to the toilet every 15 minutes. My sleep is disrupted and I wake up and look at the clock every hour.
My symptons kept going while I waited for the result to come back. I rang a few days after and I got the receptionist saying its abnormal and to come in. im sure everyone says whats abnormal and they then tell me they cant tell my why as they are not qualified. I get a walk in appointment and the dr explains my lft is high on alt 76 I think it was not too worried on anything else. She wants to do a test in a few weeks which I umm an arghh about so she says lets do an ultrasound of my abdomen .
My anxiety is still high as I wonder what it is an google everything and convince myself its cancer and I cant think of anything else and my wife is getting fed up of me speaking about nothing else. I have the ultrasound and the guy says
I cant see anything ominous ( my relief). Whilst im waiting for my Dr to call I still have no appetite eating once in the day as I just don’t feel hungry and still with lose stools. Something which is helping is walking in the evening with my dog
And we will go out maybe an hour to an hour and a half I do that 7 days a week and I have lost about 25 lbs in this time (about 3 months). So this week I go to the Dr and they discovered a polyp (just 1) on my gallbladder and they want to see me for repeat
Scan in 6 months or so and see if it has grown. She sent me today for repeat blood test for liver function and Bone profile and acute LFT (hepatitis ) I am now panicking about cancer again (lung cancer, bone cancer) and never heard of bone profile and all sorts of things come up on
Google (I know but I cant stop). So I assume next week the result will come in and I just feel awful and a tight feeling in my throat all the time.
I know this I long and sorry to bore people but if you made it this far thank you for reading.