Aurora123
18-02-16, 16:44
Hello
I am new to the forum and was hoping to get some. Understanding/reassurance about my health anxiety.
I have Had episodes of anxiety for about 7/8 years but I am focusing on health recently.
I think my dad being diagnosed with a rare cancer a couple years ago is related. He was fit and healthy and then within a week of having symptoms he was diagnosed. I obsessed and researched constantly - I was pregnant at the time too.
My dad has had an op and is ok fortunately but I still worry. Before giving birth I worried about labour going wrong but for months after I was happy and fine.
However the past couple of months I've been so scared of getting cancer and dying, especially leaving my daughter. It started when a mole on my face changed and I was convinced it was melanoma and googled for weeks until dermatologist told me it was acetonic keratosis so not cancerous but needed to be removed. I then had a cervical smear which was ok but for two weeks I carried on being anxious. my biggest fear now is due to intermittent upper right abdominal discomfort which I've had on and off for four years I had an ultrasound and although generally my liver is healthy (no fatty liver etc) a lesion has been found and I need an Mri scan. For weeks I've scared myself thinking it is liver cancer as there is a rare primary one which affects young adults . The discomfort in my liver area has been constant since my results and I have lost weight and am in a real state. My digestion is playing up too. I know I'm extremely anxious but is it this causing my dull ache and pains to flare up? Have had it on and off for years but never lasts and can go weeks without it. If it was connected to liver, wouldn't it get worse? Can anxiety make you feel physically unwell? Have scan next week and so scared
I am new to the forum and was hoping to get some. Understanding/reassurance about my health anxiety.
I have Had episodes of anxiety for about 7/8 years but I am focusing on health recently.
I think my dad being diagnosed with a rare cancer a couple years ago is related. He was fit and healthy and then within a week of having symptoms he was diagnosed. I obsessed and researched constantly - I was pregnant at the time too.
My dad has had an op and is ok fortunately but I still worry. Before giving birth I worried about labour going wrong but for months after I was happy and fine.
However the past couple of months I've been so scared of getting cancer and dying, especially leaving my daughter. It started when a mole on my face changed and I was convinced it was melanoma and googled for weeks until dermatologist told me it was acetonic keratosis so not cancerous but needed to be removed. I then had a cervical smear which was ok but for two weeks I carried on being anxious. my biggest fear now is due to intermittent upper right abdominal discomfort which I've had on and off for four years I had an ultrasound and although generally my liver is healthy (no fatty liver etc) a lesion has been found and I need an Mri scan. For weeks I've scared myself thinking it is liver cancer as there is a rare primary one which affects young adults . The discomfort in my liver area has been constant since my results and I have lost weight and am in a real state. My digestion is playing up too. I know I'm extremely anxious but is it this causing my dull ache and pains to flare up? Have had it on and off for years but never lasts and can go weeks without it. If it was connected to liver, wouldn't it get worse? Can anxiety make you feel physically unwell? Have scan next week and so scared