StarsDie
31-07-21, 02:23
A few weeks ago I developed some tailbone pain. I had been sitting with pretty bad posture for hours a day. And considering I have lost a bit of weight, I'm a bit more "boney" now than in my past. So there seems to be a non-serious explanation for it.
But my health anxiety causes me to connect dots that I probably shouldn't be connecting.
So I start thinking that maybe I have prostate cancer because I have also been noticing a greater frequency of going to the bathroom to pee (at times going about 13 times a day).
There could be non-serious explanations for this as well, because I do have a tendency to drink a lot of water. I have also seen frequent urination as a symptom of anxiety, which kind of makes sense to me.
Regardless, I just want to know if my pee frequency is something that other people experience. Same for the tailbone pain.
I will bring this stuff up with my doctor the next time I see him so you don't have to tell me, but I'm just trying to calm my nerves a bit right now. I've been going down some very bad roads in my mind recently over this (despite refraining from googling); with thoughts that I have advanced prostate cancer that has spread to the bone. When these thoughts take over my mind I start living in a really bad depressive mode. It's not good for me psychologically. So any common experiences would help with this.
EDIT: 8/2/21
I'm going in to see my doctor tomorrow. I have general pelvic pain and pressure radiating around the bladder, lower back, testicles and rectal area. I don't know what he'd be able to do for me when I go in, but I'm really hoping this is all just my anxiety running wild and there isn't a serious health problem here.
But my health anxiety causes me to connect dots that I probably shouldn't be connecting.
So I start thinking that maybe I have prostate cancer because I have also been noticing a greater frequency of going to the bathroom to pee (at times going about 13 times a day).
There could be non-serious explanations for this as well, because I do have a tendency to drink a lot of water. I have also seen frequent urination as a symptom of anxiety, which kind of makes sense to me.
Regardless, I just want to know if my pee frequency is something that other people experience. Same for the tailbone pain.
I will bring this stuff up with my doctor the next time I see him so you don't have to tell me, but I'm just trying to calm my nerves a bit right now. I've been going down some very bad roads in my mind recently over this (despite refraining from googling); with thoughts that I have advanced prostate cancer that has spread to the bone. When these thoughts take over my mind I start living in a really bad depressive mode. It's not good for me psychologically. So any common experiences would help with this.
EDIT: 8/2/21
I'm going in to see my doctor tomorrow. I have general pelvic pain and pressure radiating around the bladder, lower back, testicles and rectal area. I don't know what he'd be able to do for me when I go in, but I'm really hoping this is all just my anxiety running wild and there isn't a serious health problem here.