Hi guys,
I'm new here, but reading the posts has given me some relief from the unrelenting health anxiety I have suffered since march, when I had a very minor cancer scare. Ok, so I'm twenty five, I don't smoke or drink (although I did smoke for a few years) and I'm generally in very good health (try to get me to believe it, though ).
The latest obsession that's making me paralysed with fear is a sore on the roof of my mouth. It started as far as I know yesterday morning, and at the time when it started it was flat but with that characteristic taste that sores have. During the day yesterday it seemed to shrink very quickly, in a matter of hours. By the evening, it had basically turned into a little (couple of mm) crater. Then it basically stayed the same until now.
I'm terrified that it's mouth cancer because of the quick changes yesterday, and because it doesn't seem to be healing anymore. Also, I've never before had a sore that resembled a crater. (Although I probably wouldn't have paid that close attention to my symptoms before this started). Is this anything like mouth cancer? I don't want to google as I know it only makes things worse.
Please tell me that this too, like the fifty symptoms before it, is nothing.
Thanks
Melissa