JamesRed
04-08-17, 20:58
Hello,
I hope I am posting in the correct section. I’m incredibly worried and hope someone can help relieve my anxiety a little.
First a bit about myself - I’m 33, 151lbs, exercise 4/5 times a week and don’t drink or smoke. I’ve had no prior history of health issues, although I have suffered with anxiety and hypochondria in the past, which I thought I had kicked once I took up regular exercise around 5 years ago and hadn’t had an episode for a long time.
Around 3 weeks ago I thought I had come down with a little bit of food poisoning. Shortly after lunch I began to feel a little off in the stomach department and put it down to just eating something dodgy and thought it would pass quickly. It didn’t, and over the next few days I continued to experience stomach ache in and around the centre (both left and right), sometimes after eating, as well as discomfort beginning to radiate around the back (and sometimes in the groin) and incredibly loose stools.
A few days after the first symptoms, I began to be put under a lot of stress at work that lasted just under two weeks. All the symptoms persisted and having suffered with anxiety before I thought these were merely triggers and symptoms from that - thinking once I was on holiday at the end of the two weeks, they would go away - they didn’t. I continued to have stomach ache, back ache, tiredness and loose stools, to the point where I went to a local doctor near where i was staying who asked me to provide a stool sample (the results of which have yet to return) and gave me Loperamide to help with the loose stools.
Of course, during this time I’d gone online to see what Google said about my symptoms, and the first thing to show up was pancreatic cancer. This obviously terrified me and made me believe that the symptoms I’ve got are actually for this type of cancer.
However, once I got home I started to feel a little better. My stomach wasn’t nowhere near as uncomfortable (although it was still there) and my stools had gone back to being solid (I’d also began to flatulate a lot more - something I was known to do regularly before and hadn’t done during the last few weeks, much to my girlfriend’s annoyance) and so my anxiety abated a little.
However, my back was still hurting - particularly between my shoulder blades making it very uncomfortable to sit in one position for any amount of time and in some cases felt like i had a blockage when I swallowed. I originally put this down to just me sleeping on a very uncomfortable bed for the last week or so, but then today I began to feel light headed and become incredibly thirsty too.
Obviously, looking at Dr Google once again, the symptoms for pancreatic cancer and pancreatis are what show up instantly, but now with added symptoms which are making me terrified this is what I’ve got.
Apologies for the long rant, I just needed to get this off my chest.
I hope I am posting in the correct section. I’m incredibly worried and hope someone can help relieve my anxiety a little.
First a bit about myself - I’m 33, 151lbs, exercise 4/5 times a week and don’t drink or smoke. I’ve had no prior history of health issues, although I have suffered with anxiety and hypochondria in the past, which I thought I had kicked once I took up regular exercise around 5 years ago and hadn’t had an episode for a long time.
Around 3 weeks ago I thought I had come down with a little bit of food poisoning. Shortly after lunch I began to feel a little off in the stomach department and put it down to just eating something dodgy and thought it would pass quickly. It didn’t, and over the next few days I continued to experience stomach ache in and around the centre (both left and right), sometimes after eating, as well as discomfort beginning to radiate around the back (and sometimes in the groin) and incredibly loose stools.
A few days after the first symptoms, I began to be put under a lot of stress at work that lasted just under two weeks. All the symptoms persisted and having suffered with anxiety before I thought these were merely triggers and symptoms from that - thinking once I was on holiday at the end of the two weeks, they would go away - they didn’t. I continued to have stomach ache, back ache, tiredness and loose stools, to the point where I went to a local doctor near where i was staying who asked me to provide a stool sample (the results of which have yet to return) and gave me Loperamide to help with the loose stools.
Of course, during this time I’d gone online to see what Google said about my symptoms, and the first thing to show up was pancreatic cancer. This obviously terrified me and made me believe that the symptoms I’ve got are actually for this type of cancer.
However, once I got home I started to feel a little better. My stomach wasn’t nowhere near as uncomfortable (although it was still there) and my stools had gone back to being solid (I’d also began to flatulate a lot more - something I was known to do regularly before and hadn’t done during the last few weeks, much to my girlfriend’s annoyance) and so my anxiety abated a little.
However, my back was still hurting - particularly between my shoulder blades making it very uncomfortable to sit in one position for any amount of time and in some cases felt like i had a blockage when I swallowed. I originally put this down to just me sleeping on a very uncomfortable bed for the last week or so, but then today I began to feel light headed and become incredibly thirsty too.
Obviously, looking at Dr Google once again, the symptoms for pancreatic cancer and pancreatis are what show up instantly, but now with added symptoms which are making me terrified this is what I’ve got.
Apologies for the long rant, I just needed to get this off my chest.