RadioGaGa
18-01-18, 21:11
Hi everyone
Health anxiety has not been good recently.
The next paragraph may trigger I was triggered last week in work because I was dispensing medication for a patient with Glioblastoma (my ultimate health anxiety fear). Their presenting complaints were headaches and complex partial seizures.
Anyway, as some of you may remember, I ended up in A&E on Saturday night as per my GP re: chest pain. Turned out it was most likely muscular but my CRP was raised, indicating inflammation or infection.
Now, this is why I worry about stomach cancer: GORD has run in my dads side of the family; all my uncles and granddad were on antacids. But my GORD has been a bit worse recently, and I had to swtich PPI's.
A Locum doctor said: "if these don't work we'll need to look into this a bit more to make sure there isn't anything sinister going on" (that triggered me).
My main symptom is worseing GORD and loss of appetite. I noticed my appetite diminished when taking abx for a chest infection and when I was ill. I still don't feel 100% and my appetite isn't 100% either... No weight loss though. The abx finished 3 weeks ago and this cold has been going on 5 weeks, with a relapse last week.
It's a 1 in 1,000,000 (literally, according to Cancer Research Statistics UK) that I have stomach cancer at 24... I had the camera down 3 years ago, so I doubt cancer could have started in that time...
Just looking for reassurance, I suppose re: loss of appetite etc.
Health anxiety has not been good recently.
The next paragraph may trigger I was triggered last week in work because I was dispensing medication for a patient with Glioblastoma (my ultimate health anxiety fear). Their presenting complaints were headaches and complex partial seizures.
Anyway, as some of you may remember, I ended up in A&E on Saturday night as per my GP re: chest pain. Turned out it was most likely muscular but my CRP was raised, indicating inflammation or infection.
Now, this is why I worry about stomach cancer: GORD has run in my dads side of the family; all my uncles and granddad were on antacids. But my GORD has been a bit worse recently, and I had to swtich PPI's.
A Locum doctor said: "if these don't work we'll need to look into this a bit more to make sure there isn't anything sinister going on" (that triggered me).
My main symptom is worseing GORD and loss of appetite. I noticed my appetite diminished when taking abx for a chest infection and when I was ill. I still don't feel 100% and my appetite isn't 100% either... No weight loss though. The abx finished 3 weeks ago and this cold has been going on 5 weeks, with a relapse last week.
It's a 1 in 1,000,000 (literally, according to Cancer Research Statistics UK) that I have stomach cancer at 24... I had the camera down 3 years ago, so I doubt cancer could have started in that time...
Just looking for reassurance, I suppose re: loss of appetite etc.