Firstprime
03-10-17, 01:42
I've had two hard, mostly immovable, lymph nodes on my head for over 8 years now. For the last 2.5 years I've suffered from serious health anxiety, mostly centred on lymphoma and other cancers.
There have been many other issues and symptoms involved (check my previous posts for more on those...), but it was the long term worry over the two original nodes/lumps that originally caused me to develop HA.
Is it unreasonable to still be concerned about those original lumps considering how long I've had them? As far as I can tell they haven't grown or changed noticeably since I first found them.
I suppose my worry now is the symptoms I've developed or noticed more recently (other lumps/nodes, moles, aches, pains, spots, itchy skin, night sweats, headaches, sore throat, acid reflux, etc... the works), but I think the original lumps on my head are still central to my anxiety. I can't help but feel that it's all related and part of one big long term illness that was started by those lumps. I still sometimes get aches and pains in that area, itches too, and it always sets me worrying.
I tell myself it's been too long, to move on; but then I run through my symptoms, and feel my current physical symptoms, and I just can't believe that there's nothing seriously wrong.
Am I completely unrealistic and unreasonable to still be worried about those original lumps?
There have been many other issues and symptoms involved (check my previous posts for more on those...), but it was the long term worry over the two original nodes/lumps that originally caused me to develop HA.
Is it unreasonable to still be concerned about those original lumps considering how long I've had them? As far as I can tell they haven't grown or changed noticeably since I first found them.
I suppose my worry now is the symptoms I've developed or noticed more recently (other lumps/nodes, moles, aches, pains, spots, itchy skin, night sweats, headaches, sore throat, acid reflux, etc... the works), but I think the original lumps on my head are still central to my anxiety. I can't help but feel that it's all related and part of one big long term illness that was started by those lumps. I still sometimes get aches and pains in that area, itches too, and it always sets me worrying.
I tell myself it's been too long, to move on; but then I run through my symptoms, and feel my current physical symptoms, and I just can't believe that there's nothing seriously wrong.
Am I completely unrealistic and unreasonable to still be worried about those original lumps?