Jamie123
26-08-15, 20:16
[Please do not read if this could trigger a lung cancer worry I would not like to cause this feeling to anyone]
I am so thankful for this forum as it has helped me with each and every 1 of my worries. However I have a new found worry. Lung cancer. For the past 2 years I have noticed at times I yawn quite a lot and this often happened a lot due to my fear of ALS as i would focus on this worry. About a year ago I got myself in a massive panic as I started to think I wasn't breathing enough and started to control my breathing which made me have a panic attack. For a few weeks now I have been having a little bit of (could be percieved) numbness on my whole left side from and including my rib cage down to my abdomen which could be caused by anxiety as I always used to have this but only on my rib cage as at the time it was the thing I was focused on. Today I had a little bit of a cramping pain in my lower back which radiates a little bit to the front which I usually have rarely after showers. I have also noticed over the past year that after I play football which I did about twice-four times a month I would have a lot of phlegm and also some whites on the sides of my mouth which i think are caused by dry mouth when exercising and would cough a lot almost chocking at times and get hiccups but this would subside in about and hour but in the last year maybe 2 it has happened after every football session which has scared me. Could this be due to the fact we play for about 2-3 hours and not often and also I usually buy water only after we have finished so my throat gets dry. Also I have felt that I cannot breathe as well during the session but this could be due to me being unfit as I am fat. I have never smoked but used to stay with my mum when she did so used to get a lot of second hand smoke which gave me a reason to be scared about lung cancer. Then the thing that really got me in a panic was reading the survival statistics and reading that even if caught early survival statistics are quite low and this made me absolutely freak out. I have also felt like a numb feeling in the left side of my back which could be due to anxiety as i used to get it a few years back however the pins and needles are a first.I have recently also started playing tennis but this happens very rarely after tennis during which I drink water throughout. Could this be the cause? Now im feeling like I cant take a full deep breathe which i scaring me and also noticed after I climbed stairs relatively quickly I had to take a few deep breaths which also scared me as I have read breathlessness is a symptom and I also feel like I have some sort of liquid a bit thicker than saliva in my throat which could be due to me clearing my throat too much. I have also in the past day started to get a feeling a stitch on the bottom of both ribs even though I haven't done any exercise.
Note: I have been testing my breathing a lot which could be causing this as it doesn't happen often. Also I was scared as i found a clicking noise under my ribs when i pushed in which caused me to mess with my rib cage involving a lot of pushing and pressing which could have caused the strange feeling at the bottom of my left rib.
I know no one is a doctor but I have gotten so much help from this website to reassure me and hope someone has some advice or info to calm me down. I have also had some more burping and flatulence recently which relieves some symptoms for a few seconds. I also do not have a regular cough and have never coughed up blood however I do clear my throat a lot as when I think about it I always feel like there is something in the left side of my throat which can cause me to give irritate my throat due to clearing it constantly.
I am so thankful for this forum as it has helped me with each and every 1 of my worries. However I have a new found worry. Lung cancer. For the past 2 years I have noticed at times I yawn quite a lot and this often happened a lot due to my fear of ALS as i would focus on this worry. About a year ago I got myself in a massive panic as I started to think I wasn't breathing enough and started to control my breathing which made me have a panic attack. For a few weeks now I have been having a little bit of (could be percieved) numbness on my whole left side from and including my rib cage down to my abdomen which could be caused by anxiety as I always used to have this but only on my rib cage as at the time it was the thing I was focused on. Today I had a little bit of a cramping pain in my lower back which radiates a little bit to the front which I usually have rarely after showers. I have also noticed over the past year that after I play football which I did about twice-four times a month I would have a lot of phlegm and also some whites on the sides of my mouth which i think are caused by dry mouth when exercising and would cough a lot almost chocking at times and get hiccups but this would subside in about and hour but in the last year maybe 2 it has happened after every football session which has scared me. Could this be due to the fact we play for about 2-3 hours and not often and also I usually buy water only after we have finished so my throat gets dry. Also I have felt that I cannot breathe as well during the session but this could be due to me being unfit as I am fat. I have never smoked but used to stay with my mum when she did so used to get a lot of second hand smoke which gave me a reason to be scared about lung cancer. Then the thing that really got me in a panic was reading the survival statistics and reading that even if caught early survival statistics are quite low and this made me absolutely freak out. I have also felt like a numb feeling in the left side of my back which could be due to anxiety as i used to get it a few years back however the pins and needles are a first.I have recently also started playing tennis but this happens very rarely after tennis during which I drink water throughout. Could this be the cause? Now im feeling like I cant take a full deep breathe which i scaring me and also noticed after I climbed stairs relatively quickly I had to take a few deep breaths which also scared me as I have read breathlessness is a symptom and I also feel like I have some sort of liquid a bit thicker than saliva in my throat which could be due to me clearing my throat too much. I have also in the past day started to get a feeling a stitch on the bottom of both ribs even though I haven't done any exercise.
Note: I have been testing my breathing a lot which could be causing this as it doesn't happen often. Also I was scared as i found a clicking noise under my ribs when i pushed in which caused me to mess with my rib cage involving a lot of pushing and pressing which could have caused the strange feeling at the bottom of my left rib.
I know no one is a doctor but I have gotten so much help from this website to reassure me and hope someone has some advice or info to calm me down. I have also had some more burping and flatulence recently which relieves some symptoms for a few seconds. I also do not have a regular cough and have never coughed up blood however I do clear my throat a lot as when I think about it I always feel like there is something in the left side of my throat which can cause me to give irritate my throat due to clearing it constantly.