beasty340
25-10-17, 16:18
Hi everyone,
The past three months have been absolutely plagued with health anxiety. From an enlarged heart, colon cancer, MS, or leukemia. I have thought I have had every major illness possible. This "new" fear of colon cancer has already taken place about two months ago after I got a pretty bad pain in my lower left abdomen that took about 4 days to go away. During this time I went to the urgent care clinic and had a cbc, urine test, and dr felt the area. He said that everything seemed fine and if it got worse to come back for a CT scan. Lo and behold it got better and went away. During this time my stool was normal and I was only experiencing a mild pain.
Currently, last Thursday I had a new bloating feeling pop up in the left side of my abdomen with most of the bloating in the lower left part. This bloating feeling came just a day after I got some reassurance from my doctor about not having leukemia. Very frustrating to have one worry after another. Anyway, again I have all normal stools (no diarrhea, not really constipated). The only thing I am experiencing at the moment is some bloating and a fullness in the area. I have tried to see if I can get rid of any excess air from the area, but nothing ever seems to come out. Diet is not the best and have been under high amounts of anxiety (already taking part in some counseling and waiting on a referral to see a psychiatrist). I also talked to my parents and cannot think of any family history of cancer other than smoking induced lung cancer. My father has had his regular colonoscopies and they have never found a polyp. I do have a hiatal hernia which causes indigestion and take prevacid for.
The most frustrating part of this is every corner I turn, it is something about cancer. Cancer on facebook with ads and posts, cancer in the news, cancer stories about have they were young and had no idea that they had it. If anyone has some reassurance for me or suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it as I am not doing the best at the moment.
Quick Edit: Does anyone know/think that slouching can cause abdominal pain? At work I notice that I am leaning to my left side and slouching kind of scrunching my stomach up.
The past three months have been absolutely plagued with health anxiety. From an enlarged heart, colon cancer, MS, or leukemia. I have thought I have had every major illness possible. This "new" fear of colon cancer has already taken place about two months ago after I got a pretty bad pain in my lower left abdomen that took about 4 days to go away. During this time I went to the urgent care clinic and had a cbc, urine test, and dr felt the area. He said that everything seemed fine and if it got worse to come back for a CT scan. Lo and behold it got better and went away. During this time my stool was normal and I was only experiencing a mild pain.
Currently, last Thursday I had a new bloating feeling pop up in the left side of my abdomen with most of the bloating in the lower left part. This bloating feeling came just a day after I got some reassurance from my doctor about not having leukemia. Very frustrating to have one worry after another. Anyway, again I have all normal stools (no diarrhea, not really constipated). The only thing I am experiencing at the moment is some bloating and a fullness in the area. I have tried to see if I can get rid of any excess air from the area, but nothing ever seems to come out. Diet is not the best and have been under high amounts of anxiety (already taking part in some counseling and waiting on a referral to see a psychiatrist). I also talked to my parents and cannot think of any family history of cancer other than smoking induced lung cancer. My father has had his regular colonoscopies and they have never found a polyp. I do have a hiatal hernia which causes indigestion and take prevacid for.
The most frustrating part of this is every corner I turn, it is something about cancer. Cancer on facebook with ads and posts, cancer in the news, cancer stories about have they were young and had no idea that they had it. If anyone has some reassurance for me or suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it as I am not doing the best at the moment.
Quick Edit: Does anyone know/think that slouching can cause abdominal pain? At work I notice that I am leaning to my left side and slouching kind of scrunching my stomach up.