Breakaway
04-02-18, 18:35
Hi! I’m new to the forum. I really need people to talk to because I feel like no one around me truly understands how bad my health anxiety has become. I have always had some form of health anxiety but it’s gotten pretty bad since my daughter was born 7 months ago.
She’s my first and only baby so I have this HORRIBLE fear that I’m going to be diagnosed with cancer and not see her grow up.
Right now I have a bunch of symptoms that are worrying me such as a pain in my upper back on the left side that I’ve had since she was born and has not gone away. I’ve asked my doctor a few times about it and they said it’s a muscle strain, from carrying her on that side all the time.
But I also have a lymph node behind my ear that keeps swelling. It swelled up for the first time at the end of December, then a week and a half later and again last night. I THINK I may have scratched it right before it swelled but I don’t remember for sure. It starts as a raised looking welt, like when you first get a mosquito bite, and then the lymph node enlarges completely! It’s not painful at all and all three times it went back down within less than a day. I had a CBC done and it seemed fine. I’m going to make an appointment with the ENT doctor, but until then I need to be able to look at my baby without crying because I can’t stop thinking I won’t see her grow up.
Please help!!
She’s my first and only baby so I have this HORRIBLE fear that I’m going to be diagnosed with cancer and not see her grow up.
Right now I have a bunch of symptoms that are worrying me such as a pain in my upper back on the left side that I’ve had since she was born and has not gone away. I’ve asked my doctor a few times about it and they said it’s a muscle strain, from carrying her on that side all the time.
But I also have a lymph node behind my ear that keeps swelling. It swelled up for the first time at the end of December, then a week and a half later and again last night. I THINK I may have scratched it right before it swelled but I don’t remember for sure. It starts as a raised looking welt, like when you first get a mosquito bite, and then the lymph node enlarges completely! It’s not painful at all and all three times it went back down within less than a day. I had a CBC done and it seemed fine. I’m going to make an appointment with the ENT doctor, but until then I need to be able to look at my baby without crying because I can’t stop thinking I won’t see her grow up.
Please help!!