coastgirl
18-07-18, 19:45
I'm back with another round of HA :( I've been so good about keeping myself in line but after a true medical problem following a particularly bad panic attack about a skin thing (I'm totally fine btw) it is hard for me to stay rational.
About a month or so ago I started to develop bad gas pain. At the same time I was also starting a side job that had me lifting things in and out of the car.
At the time I was on Wellbutrin which was occasionally messing up my stomach and giving me IBS type issues.
Well, I got fed up with the worsening side effects of Wellbutrin on my stomach so I stopped taking it. My stomach eased up but this back pain continued.
I stopped doing the side job about a month ago, however the back pain seems worse. It's localized in the mid left part of my back.
The thing is, it's an odd pain and I can't tell if it's muscular or like a pinched nerve or if it's organ pain. It kind of comes and goes. It seems to be worse when I have gas and better after I eat a meal.
I haven't really googled because I KNOW it will send me into a full blown panic attack. But my imagination is just as bad as Dr Google.
I need to get a physical anyway, so I think I should go to the doctor just in case.
But wouldn't I have much worse symptoms if it was like Pancreatic Cancer or something super sinister??? I'm TERRIFIED of going to the doctors and waiting for tests/etc because of what happened with my skin a few years ago, and I'm going to need a Xanax just to go in for my appointment.
The only good thing is that besides this GI stuff and random pain I feel otherwise fine. I was surfing and carrying on, and the pain is like a 3-4 out of 10. Maybe the surfing made it worse?
I also know that when I get anxious about health stuff my stomach goes into absolute flips.
About a month or so ago I started to develop bad gas pain. At the same time I was also starting a side job that had me lifting things in and out of the car.
At the time I was on Wellbutrin which was occasionally messing up my stomach and giving me IBS type issues.
Well, I got fed up with the worsening side effects of Wellbutrin on my stomach so I stopped taking it. My stomach eased up but this back pain continued.
I stopped doing the side job about a month ago, however the back pain seems worse. It's localized in the mid left part of my back.
The thing is, it's an odd pain and I can't tell if it's muscular or like a pinched nerve or if it's organ pain. It kind of comes and goes. It seems to be worse when I have gas and better after I eat a meal.
I haven't really googled because I KNOW it will send me into a full blown panic attack. But my imagination is just as bad as Dr Google.
I need to get a physical anyway, so I think I should go to the doctor just in case.
But wouldn't I have much worse symptoms if it was like Pancreatic Cancer or something super sinister??? I'm TERRIFIED of going to the doctors and waiting for tests/etc because of what happened with my skin a few years ago, and I'm going to need a Xanax just to go in for my appointment.
The only good thing is that besides this GI stuff and random pain I feel otherwise fine. I was surfing and carrying on, and the pain is like a 3-4 out of 10. Maybe the surfing made it worse?
I also know that when I get anxious about health stuff my stomach goes into absolute flips.