Help1989
11-04-15, 11:29
Hi,
I haven't posted since last year when I was going through quite a bad time. I have been diagnosed with endometriosis and chronic fatigue syndrome after all my issues. I also had treatment for a high grade abnormal smear. As you can imagine my health anxiety was sky high at that time but after I was given the reasons for all of my symptoms, my HA seemed to die down for a while and I could concentrate on dealing with my health issues.
Now my HA is back and this time i'm sick with worry about colon cancer. I have had a sigmoidoscopy, where they look at the first part of your bowel, about 12 months ago. All they found was some redness but that came back as normal, and internal piles. I am now having weird symptoms, feeling like I haven't been to the loo when I have, some bleeding sometimes, pain and going more often. I know rationally that this could all be to do with the piles the doc found but somehow this feels different. I can't get out of my head that I have colon or bowel cancer. I have been to my docs at least once a week in the past few weeks about various different things, but haven't mentioned this issue. I am embarrassed because even the receptionist knows my name now and I feel like they don't want to refer me to any specialists any more. I just don't know where to go from here. I am definitely in more pain now than before and all I can think is that this time I have got cancer but my doc wont take me seriously. Has anyone got any tips on how to cope? I'm not really sure what I want to get out of this post but I am driving myself crazy :unsure:
I haven't posted since last year when I was going through quite a bad time. I have been diagnosed with endometriosis and chronic fatigue syndrome after all my issues. I also had treatment for a high grade abnormal smear. As you can imagine my health anxiety was sky high at that time but after I was given the reasons for all of my symptoms, my HA seemed to die down for a while and I could concentrate on dealing with my health issues.
Now my HA is back and this time i'm sick with worry about colon cancer. I have had a sigmoidoscopy, where they look at the first part of your bowel, about 12 months ago. All they found was some redness but that came back as normal, and internal piles. I am now having weird symptoms, feeling like I haven't been to the loo when I have, some bleeding sometimes, pain and going more often. I know rationally that this could all be to do with the piles the doc found but somehow this feels different. I can't get out of my head that I have colon or bowel cancer. I have been to my docs at least once a week in the past few weeks about various different things, but haven't mentioned this issue. I am embarrassed because even the receptionist knows my name now and I feel like they don't want to refer me to any specialists any more. I just don't know where to go from here. I am definitely in more pain now than before and all I can think is that this time I have got cancer but my doc wont take me seriously. Has anyone got any tips on how to cope? I'm not really sure what I want to get out of this post but I am driving myself crazy :unsure: