Dobbiedoo
26-07-23, 07:45
Have had health anxiety on and off for about 10 years. Had an awful time last year where in the space of 8 months I worried about the following:
Lumps in my neck - checked out & fine
Lumps in son's neck - checked out & fine
Breast cancer - checked out & fine
Bruising - was a side effect of Sertraline but left me worrying for ages about leukaemia despite normal bloods.
Trace blood in urine (an incidental finding) - rechecked & fine
I was also the victim of a couple of mistakes - sent for a CT scan intended for someone else in error & a Blood test that couldn't be processed and had to be repeated.
After CBT I was much better but health worries were never far from my mind and my brain would sometimes wander back to the above illnesses & I'd wonder if it was really OK.
3 months ago my anxiety started to ramp up again I went from worrying about breast cancer to bowel cancer to neck Lumps to urine issues and back to bowel cancer again before deciding I was OK.
However, 2 weeks ago I went back to worrying about my 19 year old son again. As above I had him checked last year for longstanding lymph glands (one has definitely been there 6 years) - had bloods, chest xray & ultrasound. Told all fine he's slim & glands on surface so noticeable. The other week I spotted a bump on his neck I'd not noticed before so now panicking. Then I caught sight of his bare chest (a rare sight) and noticed that one of his ribs seems to be sticking out at a weird angle. I'm not even sure it was a rib so panicking perhaps a lump (although it was rib shaped and he"s skinny). As he"s 19 I daren't say anything or ask to check his chest as he'll think I'm mad, plus don't want to scare him.
We're due to go on holiday soon and I can't focus. I also know I'll get to see his chest when we go swimming & it scares me.
Thanks for listening.
Lumps in my neck - checked out & fine
Lumps in son's neck - checked out & fine
Breast cancer - checked out & fine
Bruising - was a side effect of Sertraline but left me worrying for ages about leukaemia despite normal bloods.
Trace blood in urine (an incidental finding) - rechecked & fine
I was also the victim of a couple of mistakes - sent for a CT scan intended for someone else in error & a Blood test that couldn't be processed and had to be repeated.
After CBT I was much better but health worries were never far from my mind and my brain would sometimes wander back to the above illnesses & I'd wonder if it was really OK.
3 months ago my anxiety started to ramp up again I went from worrying about breast cancer to bowel cancer to neck Lumps to urine issues and back to bowel cancer again before deciding I was OK.
However, 2 weeks ago I went back to worrying about my 19 year old son again. As above I had him checked last year for longstanding lymph glands (one has definitely been there 6 years) - had bloods, chest xray & ultrasound. Told all fine he's slim & glands on surface so noticeable. The other week I spotted a bump on his neck I'd not noticed before so now panicking. Then I caught sight of his bare chest (a rare sight) and noticed that one of his ribs seems to be sticking out at a weird angle. I'm not even sure it was a rib so panicking perhaps a lump (although it was rib shaped and he"s skinny). As he"s 19 I daren't say anything or ask to check his chest as he'll think I'm mad, plus don't want to scare him.
We're due to go on holiday soon and I can't focus. I also know I'll get to see his chest when we go swimming & it scares me.
Thanks for listening.