Severe Panic Attack-Never had one like this before! Going crazy

[footballking]

This bump on my chest below the collarbone has been growing and i am freaking out. Apparently chest x rays dont spot things like tumours. and theres nothing broken on my bones, so what else could it be? I am going crazy. Some guy with nearly exact area has the same thing and was diagnosed with some tumour and now i'm going out of my mind. I haven't been sleeping well so i feel like I'm in my final days. I am going to go urgently pay for a ct scan or mri.

I am going out of my mind, never thought i'd have a severe panic attack like this, going crazy.

FMLLL if this is what i think it is.

[katesa]

Come on honey it's ok.

Who on earth told you that chest x rays don't spot "things like tumours"? That is complete and utter poppycock.

[almamatters]

This bump on my chest below the collarbone has been growing and i am freaking out. Apparently chest x rays dont spot things like tumours. and theres nothing broken on my bones, so what else could it be? I am going crazy. Some guy with nearly exact area has the same thing and was diagnosed with some tumour and now i'm going out of my mind. I haven't been sleeping well so i feel like I'm in my final days. I am going to go urgently pay for a ct scan or mri.

I am going out of my mind, never thought i'd have a severe panic attack like this, going crazy.

FMLLL if this is what i think it is.

I have the same bump! I posted a lot about this last year. It is a weird lump that started growing and then began to hurt. I had a chest x ray which showed nothing then I had an ultrasound which did show the lump and it was inflammation. I had assumed like you it was going to be a tumour, or a cancer that had spread to my collar bone, but it turned out to be neither.
Apparently you can get random inflammation like this and it is completely harmless.

[Annie0904]

Katesa is right, the xray would have shown a tumour, please try to calm yourself down, it is nothing serious.

[footballking]

I have the same bump! I posted a lot about this last year. It is a weird lump that started growing and then began to hurt. I had a chest x ray which showed nothing then I had an ultrasound which did show the lump and it was inflammation. I had assumed like you it was going to be a tumour, or a cancer that had spread to my collar bone, but it turned out to be neither.
Apparently you can get random inflammation like this and it is completely harmless.

What did you do or take/Antibiotics/Ibuprofen? i am freaking out. Did the bump go down eventually? Mine just doesn't feel like inflammation.

Doctor seems to think its just a body abnormality which is bullshit because I have never had it and I noticed it in september, which is freaking me out.

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Katesa is right, the xray would have shown a tumour, please try to calm yourself down, it is nothing serious.

X-rays do not show abornmalities such as that, it is more of a ct scans job. I have done thorough research on the area, and have looked at many sources. There is no way i'm going to be able to stay calm. I want to catch this early and it's already been a few months.

[almamatters]

I took ibuprofen and used to put warm flannels and stuff on it to help. I am not saying yours is the same thing, but I wanted to reassure you that not all lumps are tumours. Mine went down a bit but I still have it .
I do not think about it now and the pain has started to fade.
Please try not to worry too much I doubt very much it is anything sinister.

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Sorry but does your GP think further tests are necessary?

[katesa]

What did you do or take/Antibiotics/Ibuprofen? i am freaking out. Did the bump go down eventually? Mine just doesn't feel like inflammation.

Doctor seems to think its just a body abnormality which is bullshit because I have never had it and I noticed it in september, which is freaking me out.

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X-rays do not show abornmalities such as that, it is more of a ct scans job. I have done thorough research on the area, and have looked at many sources. There is no way i'm going to be able to stay calm. I want to catch this early and it's already been a few months.

I have a friend who is a NHS radiologist at the LRI and when I was freaking out that my husband may have lung cancer, he assured me that X-rays absolutely DO detect tumours. They are only limited with visibility when less than 1cm big but even then a half decent radiologist will spot other markers of a tumour such as shadowing or fluid.

Did you research this on doctor google by any chance?

[footballking]

MY GP has me labelled as hypchrondiac now and thinks its just an abnormality, I don't even see the point with life, depression has hit its tole, I was all positive now what's the point. Age 20, who would have thought it. Even if my gp would have thought that further testing is needed, it would take too long. He's told me to start citapolram and is not worried about my health.

I asked him how I would know if it was a tumour, and he basically suggested that because of its position I would be coughing and it would have gone to my lungs, which insinuates that there's a basis on waiting till its at stage 4 or something stupid.

I am going to go get an mri done and a biopsy immediately. Was going to get a CT scan done but then heard about all the radiation that it's 100x worse than a X-ray. So might just wait since even if i do have it, I'm in the early stages, i hope. Even though its been 5 months now.

Isn't life fun? Now i can see why people commit suicide. But the amount of courage that is needed for that, is above my limit.

[Annie0904]

You would have other symptoms if it was lung cancer, coughing is actually one of the FIRST symptoms.

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Your doctor is correct about the position of it also causing coughing

[TotallyBonkers]

Hi Footballking, I am sorry that you feel so worried about all of this, and wish that there was something that I could say to alleviate some of your concerns.

The term your doctors used "hypocondriac" I can not begin to put into words how much I hate that term as I am sure you do too. Health Anxiety is a very real thing and unique to each and everyone of us, although we share the title of Health Anxiety and worry excessively about different things it is still a very personal issue.

The XRAY can show a tumour, the fact that nothing showed on the x-ray is a very good thing, though at the moment I understand you not feeling that way as you are so worried that it is something sinister. Sometimes the need and desire to completely rule something out just has to be followed through for your own peace of mind, but I wanted to say that if the Doctor did suspect anything nasty they would do an instant referral for you to be seen within 2 weeks with a specialist.

I hope that you can get some answers that help you, life is so important, you are young and have a great deal of life ahead of you, I hope that you can overcome any anxiety and depression that you have so that you can embrace your life totally.

Again please try hard not to worry too much, I am sure you will be ok.