Fyrefly
05-09-16, 02:46
Hello everyone.
This is my second time posting here, albeit this time under a different name because I forgot my old account details.
This time around I think I have brain cancer, something I see is a recurring issue people with anxiety seem to have. I am seeing a doctor soon after having to insist to my parents that I really need too, but I'd like some outside perspective on whether that's really necessary.
My symptoms:
- Persistent tension-style headache (specifically a feeling of fullness towards the back of my head/neck, sometimes it migrates to my nasal area, it's not pain just a feeling of fullness)
- Worsened tinnitus (seems to be more at night)
- Vision seems to have become 'foggy' (I also now am overly obsessed with cleaning my glasses)
- IBS-style stomach issues (I haven't been diagnosed with IBS but that's what I'd assume this is)
- Potentially an enlarged lymph node underneath my left ear, I can't really tell though.
- Tired
- Stages of light headedness (particularly when in a car??)
- Light sensitivity (when I went outside everything just seemed weird, it's hard to explain really but it felt darker or less in focus, like the way the world looks when you are nauseous)
I haven't had a particularly bad panic attack recently, only an increased heart rate when reading through brain cancer symptoms. My headache also seems to have been steadily going away, but with that going I just seem to focus more and more on my vision.
More background on my personal habits might help explain some of these issues too, I stopped going to the gym after returning from holiday in favour of only playing video games, recently I've been playing WoW for probably 8-12 hours straight everyday in a dark room with two monitors. Despite all the blatant evidence that this is what's screwing with my eyes, I can't shake the fact that it's related to brain cancer, of all things!
Also I sleep around 6-9 hours, I try to eat healthy and I have had no change in weight (63kg at 5'11) so again I am not in any high risk categories for such a disease. I also have no personality change, numbness or seizures, and still I cannot convince myself for more then a few seconds that I do not have a deadly disease.
So TL;DR, I have some symptoms which vaguely link to brain cancer, do they warrant such a fear?
This is my second time posting here, albeit this time under a different name because I forgot my old account details.
This time around I think I have brain cancer, something I see is a recurring issue people with anxiety seem to have. I am seeing a doctor soon after having to insist to my parents that I really need too, but I'd like some outside perspective on whether that's really necessary.
My symptoms:
- Persistent tension-style headache (specifically a feeling of fullness towards the back of my head/neck, sometimes it migrates to my nasal area, it's not pain just a feeling of fullness)
- Worsened tinnitus (seems to be more at night)
- Vision seems to have become 'foggy' (I also now am overly obsessed with cleaning my glasses)
- IBS-style stomach issues (I haven't been diagnosed with IBS but that's what I'd assume this is)
- Potentially an enlarged lymph node underneath my left ear, I can't really tell though.
- Tired
- Stages of light headedness (particularly when in a car??)
- Light sensitivity (when I went outside everything just seemed weird, it's hard to explain really but it felt darker or less in focus, like the way the world looks when you are nauseous)
I haven't had a particularly bad panic attack recently, only an increased heart rate when reading through brain cancer symptoms. My headache also seems to have been steadily going away, but with that going I just seem to focus more and more on my vision.
More background on my personal habits might help explain some of these issues too, I stopped going to the gym after returning from holiday in favour of only playing video games, recently I've been playing WoW for probably 8-12 hours straight everyday in a dark room with two monitors. Despite all the blatant evidence that this is what's screwing with my eyes, I can't shake the fact that it's related to brain cancer, of all things!
Also I sleep around 6-9 hours, I try to eat healthy and I have had no change in weight (63kg at 5'11) so again I am not in any high risk categories for such a disease. I also have no personality change, numbness or seizures, and still I cannot convince myself for more then a few seconds that I do not have a deadly disease.
So TL;DR, I have some symptoms which vaguely link to brain cancer, do they warrant such a fear?