silver_shoes
18-03-16, 00:05
Hi,
I would really appreciate some words of reassurance, I am not a regular poster on here so I know I don't exactly contribute a lot to the forum these days (I was a regular poster around 10/11 years ago under a different name). But I am going through absolute mental hell tonight :huh:
Bit of a back story: I have bad health anxiety simply because I have been through a horrid time with my health in the past, and have issues with trusting doctors due to my own experiences. That said, I'm not a hypochondriac- I am the way I am because I have had doctors not listening to me in the past when it has transpired that I have had actual health problems.
Normally, it is my wonderful husband who keeps me sane lol, I have a tendency to think on the negative side when it comes to my health or the health of my nearest and dearest.
However this time, it is my husband who I am worried about. He is the kindest, sweetest person I know and I can not bear the thought of anything happening to him (BTW he is 33, I'm 34.).
He has been suffering with pain in his left leg, just above the knee, for around the past week or so. We had a new puppy a few months ago and have both been bending down a lot, to do stuff to him (eg picking him up, or kneeling down to clean out his crate etc) so my husband has assumed it's related to that.. Also, the fact that most days he walks to work and back which is roughly a two mile round-trip - though he has been doing that for years now in all honesty.
Last night my hubby decided that he wanted to see the GP about this pain, as it wasn't helped with Ibuprofen. This REALLY surprised me as he rarely sees the doctor for anything, it's always him being there to support me, and he is a typical man who wouldn;t nromally see the doctor without some nagging from me. So I was surprised at this. He went to the doctors this afternoon.
I was trying to be positive, and fully expected him to come home with a prescription for some painkillers and a diagnosis of muscle strain. However I was really shocked when he came home from seeing the GP and said that he is is being sent for an ultrasound scan, under the two-week wait (potential cancer) system. Apparently the GP is "almost certain" that it is just a muscle strain, caused by all the bending down he's been doing recently... however she wants to be certain it is not the small percentage chance of being something more serious. Her words were, "we want to dot the I's and cross the T's". She said that there is a question around whether there is a lump in the muscle of the calf, above the knee. When you feel it, it is definitely more inflamed, though in my opinion it is not a definite lump as such.
Of course, I am now absolutely terrified, and have been googling bone cancer/sarcoma/soft tissue cancer. I am so anxious that I nearly passed out in the kitchen earlier this evening.
A little bit of comfort is that I actually heard the GP speaking to my husband on the phone - about an hour after he got home from seeing her- because she'd said in the consultation that she was going to speak with one of the other GP's at the practice (as she's a locum) as to whether the two week wait referral was the right thing to do - and call him back and let him know. When she called back, my husband put the call onto speakerphone so I could hear what she was saying, and she didn't seem hugely concerned, she said they would rather just confirm it's a muscle strain and then send him to physio, if he needs it - rather than the very small chance it is something more serious that needs treatment sooner. She said that she did not want us to sit and worry, she was doing this to just make totally sure.
But having worked previously as a NHS medical secretary for some years, Ii know only too well about the worst outcomes of two week wait referrals.
:weep:
I feel sick through nerves and worry. My husband isn't too worried himself, but I suppose he hasn't been through what I have with illness, and the NHS and everything..
Please can someone reassure me in some way!! I am going to be going out of mind until he's had the scan. He is my world, we have only been married for six months and this is going to destroy me inside until we know what is going on for definite :weep::weep:
I would really appreciate some words of reassurance, I am not a regular poster on here so I know I don't exactly contribute a lot to the forum these days (I was a regular poster around 10/11 years ago under a different name). But I am going through absolute mental hell tonight :huh:
Bit of a back story: I have bad health anxiety simply because I have been through a horrid time with my health in the past, and have issues with trusting doctors due to my own experiences. That said, I'm not a hypochondriac- I am the way I am because I have had doctors not listening to me in the past when it has transpired that I have had actual health problems.
Normally, it is my wonderful husband who keeps me sane lol, I have a tendency to think on the negative side when it comes to my health or the health of my nearest and dearest.
However this time, it is my husband who I am worried about. He is the kindest, sweetest person I know and I can not bear the thought of anything happening to him (BTW he is 33, I'm 34.).
He has been suffering with pain in his left leg, just above the knee, for around the past week or so. We had a new puppy a few months ago and have both been bending down a lot, to do stuff to him (eg picking him up, or kneeling down to clean out his crate etc) so my husband has assumed it's related to that.. Also, the fact that most days he walks to work and back which is roughly a two mile round-trip - though he has been doing that for years now in all honesty.
Last night my hubby decided that he wanted to see the GP about this pain, as it wasn't helped with Ibuprofen. This REALLY surprised me as he rarely sees the doctor for anything, it's always him being there to support me, and he is a typical man who wouldn;t nromally see the doctor without some nagging from me. So I was surprised at this. He went to the doctors this afternoon.
I was trying to be positive, and fully expected him to come home with a prescription for some painkillers and a diagnosis of muscle strain. However I was really shocked when he came home from seeing the GP and said that he is is being sent for an ultrasound scan, under the two-week wait (potential cancer) system. Apparently the GP is "almost certain" that it is just a muscle strain, caused by all the bending down he's been doing recently... however she wants to be certain it is not the small percentage chance of being something more serious. Her words were, "we want to dot the I's and cross the T's". She said that there is a question around whether there is a lump in the muscle of the calf, above the knee. When you feel it, it is definitely more inflamed, though in my opinion it is not a definite lump as such.
Of course, I am now absolutely terrified, and have been googling bone cancer/sarcoma/soft tissue cancer. I am so anxious that I nearly passed out in the kitchen earlier this evening.
A little bit of comfort is that I actually heard the GP speaking to my husband on the phone - about an hour after he got home from seeing her- because she'd said in the consultation that she was going to speak with one of the other GP's at the practice (as she's a locum) as to whether the two week wait referral was the right thing to do - and call him back and let him know. When she called back, my husband put the call onto speakerphone so I could hear what she was saying, and she didn't seem hugely concerned, she said they would rather just confirm it's a muscle strain and then send him to physio, if he needs it - rather than the very small chance it is something more serious that needs treatment sooner. She said that she did not want us to sit and worry, she was doing this to just make totally sure.
But having worked previously as a NHS medical secretary for some years, Ii know only too well about the worst outcomes of two week wait referrals.
:weep:
I feel sick through nerves and worry. My husband isn't too worried himself, but I suppose he hasn't been through what I have with illness, and the NHS and everything..
Please can someone reassure me in some way!! I am going to be going out of mind until he's had the scan. He is my world, we have only been married for six months and this is going to destroy me inside until we know what is going on for definite :weep::weep: