I don't know to be honest. I just never think clear bloods is enough. I just always think when a symptom persists its cancer. It wears me out.
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I don't know to be honest. I just never think clear bloods is enough. I just always think when a symptom persists its cancer. It wears me out.
Anyone had high platelets?
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I've had weird symptoms for ten years. I'm still here. :unsure:
Clear blood tests are a good sign that there is nothing seriously wrong with you. If you had cancer, you would have abnormalities unless it at a very early stage, and it's not likely that you would feel as ill as you do in the early stages of cancer. Severe symptoms generally kick in at later stages, and it would be showing up in your blood tests.
Anxiety will make you feel like absolute shit though - dying even.
You completely ignored my comment but Ill ask again..
What are you doing to address your anxiety?
My bloods arent clear the receptionist rang yesterday my platelets were raised so have to get them done again in 4 weeks. I'm on antidepressants and I've tried cbt which obviously doesnt work for me.
Hi I’ve got a high ggt 216 not sure why! But since found out I feel like I’m dying I think it’s because I’m anxious and thinking the worse. What is your ggt?
Apologies.
Some meds (inc antidepressants ) can affect platelets, though it's my understanding that this generally goes the other way and lowers them.
Having low iron can affect levels, as can all sorts of things.
How many CBT sessions have you had?
Whatever is going on in your body, you are making things so much worse by freaking out all the time.
If you think your riddled with cancer for last 12 months would you be reassured if my latest bloods are ok. I have a swollen lymph node on collarbone too.
Yes of course so why are you questioning it?
Well maybe not riddled but if you think you've had it even in one place. I just feel constantly dreadful everyday.
So worried. I've had a stiff neck for a month and I felt a lump on my collarbone. I went to drs last friday and my dr could feel it and said wait 2 weeks to see if it goes. She thinks it's either my rheumatoid arthritis or costochondritis. I'm so sure its cancer. Its causing my neck to be stiff and spasms. It moves about but it's not going. I feel like nobody believes me. I've felt awful for 12 months.
Of course you do because you have a raging case of HA!
I believe you've felt awful for 12 months. I don't doubt that for one second. Doesn't mean you have cancer..Quote:
I feel like nobody believes me. I've felt awful for 12 months.
Do you mean that people don't believe you have cancer?
Why are you sure it's cancer?
Yes I feel nobody believes how ill I feel and that I have something sinister going on.
I'm not exaggerating, whatsoever, when I say that I thought I was dying - despite not having any previous experience of 'dying'. It's just that I felt so ill, that something had to be seriously wrong, right?
Wrong.
Your doctors don't think there is anything sinister going on and the test results concur. It's your mind which is saying otherwise...
I know I just latch on to horror stories of people that's been mis diagnosed.
Know just what you mean i used to be exactly the same, we both know its the horror stories that sell the paper/magazine, normality such as so & so went to the dr’s was referred to hospital was treated & everything was absolutely fine, thats never going on the front page of a magazine is it! Really sorry to hear you’ve been feeling ill for so long its so tiring and wearisome isn’t it, its hard for others to understand exactly how you feel but you have to believe the blood tests are right its the way your mind is working thats making you think the worst. Take care Zippy & hope you can find some peace of mind
People get misdiagnosed because doctors are not robots. They're human. Sometimes we as patients can mislead doctors by hiding symptoms. I can say that the NHS misdiagnosed my dad twice, and he died, but I also have to say that, had he have acted on his symptoms as soon as they started (and urinary issues with men over 50 requires a prostate examination) his life might have been saved.
We have to accept the risk - because it's one which affects us all if we are to make use of the NHS, and the benefits of using this service greatly outweighs everything else. The life of my son, and possibly mine, has already been saved by the NHS. My mother survived cancer. The list is endless. But we also have to take some responsibility for our own health and not blindly do everything we're told to do or take every pill we're told to take without asking questions and understanding the long-term risks or contraindications with other stuff we take - including herbal - which most people have no understanding of. If we think a diagnosis is wrong - we can ask for a second opinion. We can also choose not to be scared to death by reading 'horror stories' in the papers or by Googling symptoms which will invariably cough up stories like, 'I was misdiagnosed 3 times and now I have 3 months to live'. You can limit what you see, and it's up to you to do this.
I cant stop checking this squidgy lump. Now I'm checking my neck and think I can feel lumps in there too. Been ill for 14 months thinking I have cancer. I've got no energy at all and cry everyday. I just cant go on anymore. Even though I fear death I sometimes wish I would die in my sleep.
If that's the case you need urgent psychiatric help. You don't deserve to feel this bad, but cancer plainly isn't the cause.
Be good to yourself, and tackle the root cause. You wouldn't be posting on an anxiety forum if at least some part of you didn't know your worries were groundless.
I had an initial counselling phone call yesterday. I went to drs a couple of weeks ago with rib and back pain. I have a small moveable lump on my collarbone and the dr didnt seem concerned. I told her I feared cancer and she said why do you think that you havent.The lump hasnt gone but hasnt grew. I'm so scared because of how I feel that its cancer. I'm absolutely shattered 24/7 , right side back/rib pain etc. I'm just so scared.
For what it's worth, every now and again I go through a few months of pain around my back and ribs, including cramps that leave me doubled up. Granted, I have a phobia that keeps me from the doctor outside of emergencies, but it generally goes away within a couple of months (seldom less than that)
Cancer is generally all over the popular media, but it isn't necessarily as common as us HA people think it is. Really hope the counseling works for you, and that you get to feel better.
It's exhausting Zippy isn't it? I genuinely understand how you feel because I've been there.
With severe HA, it is very common to mistake what's normal in the body for something that 'feels' or 'looks' wrong to us. It's because our bodies are so sensitised that the sodding alarms keep going off. You know like car alarms which are too sensitive? You only have to fart near one and it's going off! In our case. it's the stress response which is continually activated which causes more symptoms and keeps us in this cycle of fear and despair.
You have no energy because you are in fight or flight mode all the time - and that burns fuel.
I don't think you have cancer, but do you need help with what is wrong with you - which is mental illness.
You can, and will go on. You want to live because most people with HA do or it wouldn't matter what was wrong with them, would it?
You're just exhausted from living as you are, but, as I found out, there is a way out if you are prepared to put the effort in.