WorriedWart
20-02-18, 15:11
First time poster, I’m hoping someone can provide some advice as I’m currently going mad with worry – sorry if this is a little long.
First a little information about myself – I’m a 34 year old male, who has never smoked and doesn’t drink (not had a drink in over 18 months)
Just under four weeks ago, towards the end of January I contracted the flu from my gf. I was tired, sore throat and got a very bad cough during this time.
After almost a week I was on the mend and began to feel better. My sore throat went and although I continued to have my cough it got less and less as the days went on – going from a chesty cough to bringing up mucus most of the time, to basically a little cough every other hour.
However, just over a week and a half ago I began to get an ache in my lower left jaw that I originally thought was a molar growing through and it would go away as it has before. It didn’t. Instead, I began to feel achiness and tightness across both sides of my jaw, as well as aches in and behind both my ears and the back of the head. I also felt discomfort and tightness in the front and back of my throat and awkwardness when trying to swallow.
I bought myself a night guard and ate softer foods, which seems to have helped a little (my jaw now doesn’t ache as much, instead just feeling slightly fuller), but my cough, which was practically gone as of a week ago, now appears to have got worse. I’m not bringing anything up like when I was ill, but it feels more like a wheezy cough with nothing in me coming out is the best way to describe it.
On top of this, I’ve began feeling a weird sensation in my throat. The best way to describe it as an obstruction which makes it feel dry and make me feel like I need to keep clearing it, as well as that weird feeling you get a the back of your throat (thick feeling) when you know a sore throat is coming.
If you hadn’t gathered by now I suffer from health anxiety and as much as I’ve tried to stay off the internet to self-diagnose myself, I crumbled this week and am now terrified I’ve got some form of cancer – either throat or lung (since my cough has come back)
I can’t get in to see my doctor for another few weeks, but just looking to vent and tell someone as I can’t really speak about this to anyone else.
First a little information about myself – I’m a 34 year old male, who has never smoked and doesn’t drink (not had a drink in over 18 months)
Just under four weeks ago, towards the end of January I contracted the flu from my gf. I was tired, sore throat and got a very bad cough during this time.
After almost a week I was on the mend and began to feel better. My sore throat went and although I continued to have my cough it got less and less as the days went on – going from a chesty cough to bringing up mucus most of the time, to basically a little cough every other hour.
However, just over a week and a half ago I began to get an ache in my lower left jaw that I originally thought was a molar growing through and it would go away as it has before. It didn’t. Instead, I began to feel achiness and tightness across both sides of my jaw, as well as aches in and behind both my ears and the back of the head. I also felt discomfort and tightness in the front and back of my throat and awkwardness when trying to swallow.
I bought myself a night guard and ate softer foods, which seems to have helped a little (my jaw now doesn’t ache as much, instead just feeling slightly fuller), but my cough, which was practically gone as of a week ago, now appears to have got worse. I’m not bringing anything up like when I was ill, but it feels more like a wheezy cough with nothing in me coming out is the best way to describe it.
On top of this, I’ve began feeling a weird sensation in my throat. The best way to describe it as an obstruction which makes it feel dry and make me feel like I need to keep clearing it, as well as that weird feeling you get a the back of your throat (thick feeling) when you know a sore throat is coming.
If you hadn’t gathered by now I suffer from health anxiety and as much as I’ve tried to stay off the internet to self-diagnose myself, I crumbled this week and am now terrified I’ve got some form of cancer – either throat or lung (since my cough has come back)
I can’t get in to see my doctor for another few weeks, but just looking to vent and tell someone as I can’t really speak about this to anyone else.