joeyr
13-08-10, 08:24
I've struggled with health anxiety for around 5 years - but to be honest it's making me miserable and grumpy and always pre-occupied with something that is going to happen to me instead of relaxing and having fun with my family.
I was sunburnt badly (had blisters) on my face when I was about 15 - I'm now 33 and ever since that one occasion I have stayed out of the sun. (It scared me lol!) I have quite light coloured skin and a few pale freckles across my nose but that is it.
About 2 months ago I noticed a pale pink circular patch - quite small - on my cheek underneath my eye. There is no central "spot", nothing is raised or shiny or crusty, just a tiny slightly more pink patch of skin there. It doesn't hurt, itch or burn - nothing. I've been to the Dr and have been prescribed various courses of different antibiotic creams and steroid creams. I suffer from psoriasis but she said that it is not psoriasis as it's less scaly. But nothing has taken it away.
Anyway, I keep going back and even went to another Dr for another opinion and he said that there was nothing to worry about yet and that it did not look like anything serious but just to wait and watch it and let it "develop" if it was cancer.
If anything, over the last few weeks the patch has got paler but is still there. (I stopped all the creams weeks ago). It seems to get redder when I am stressed and then goes back down the next day. Can anyone please help me here - I always think of the worst - if it was a very early sign of cancer surely it would just be getting worse - or hurt - rather than fading and then having red days!
Over the last 3 years or so I've not had any problems with being anxious over my health but because of this all the feelings have come back. Can anyone help?
I was sunburnt badly (had blisters) on my face when I was about 15 - I'm now 33 and ever since that one occasion I have stayed out of the sun. (It scared me lol!) I have quite light coloured skin and a few pale freckles across my nose but that is it.
About 2 months ago I noticed a pale pink circular patch - quite small - on my cheek underneath my eye. There is no central "spot", nothing is raised or shiny or crusty, just a tiny slightly more pink patch of skin there. It doesn't hurt, itch or burn - nothing. I've been to the Dr and have been prescribed various courses of different antibiotic creams and steroid creams. I suffer from psoriasis but she said that it is not psoriasis as it's less scaly. But nothing has taken it away.
Anyway, I keep going back and even went to another Dr for another opinion and he said that there was nothing to worry about yet and that it did not look like anything serious but just to wait and watch it and let it "develop" if it was cancer.
If anything, over the last few weeks the patch has got paler but is still there. (I stopped all the creams weeks ago). It seems to get redder when I am stressed and then goes back down the next day. Can anyone please help me here - I always think of the worst - if it was a very early sign of cancer surely it would just be getting worse - or hurt - rather than fading and then having red days!
Over the last 3 years or so I've not had any problems with being anxious over my health but because of this all the feelings have come back. Can anyone help?