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Limeslime
25-05-18, 09:12
Good days aren’t perfect. But they’re ok.i can function, straighten my hair, go out into the world and look like a normal member of society. Inside, the panic is subdued, but still present. My thoughts about my symptoms are more logical, though still not completely convincing. But good days are ok and feel ‘almost’ normal. Sometimes I almost make an entire week of good days before a bad day creeps in! And that’s some major improvement compared to how I used to be!

On bad days, I’m obsessed. I’m depressed. I’m in fear for my life. I shop...because retail therapy cheers me up. But then I cannot pay my bills because I spent money that I shouldn’t. I make doctors appointments..then cancel them...then regret it. I come on NMP to vent my worries, just because I have no one to talk to in real life. That palpable, but non swollen lymph node in my collar bone feels bigger....the HS I suffer with might be a skin cancer this time,that mole that was removed but not biopsied isn’t healing right so it must be a melanoma. My boob hurts, I must have breast cancer but I’m too scared to check for lumps incase I find one!

Obviously today is a bad day.
I’m so sick of this

Limeslime
09-12-18, 14:07
Wow...seven months after posting the above statement, I ca now state....

The palpable lymph node was just that. In fact, I cannot even find it anymore! (The GP told me they only worry if they are bigger than 1cm, unmovable or painful - mine was none of those, but I worried anyway!)

My HS was not a skin cancer.

The scar from the mole removal is healing nicely. An ugly keloid, but no signs of anything sinister.

I check my boobs monthly and have no lumps.

Wow.....time is the greatest healer and offers the most reassurance!