Bowel concerns

[scared88]

I'm freaking out a bit. Earlier when I was pulling up my trousers I felt some obstruction or something. SOmething that feels like a tube just below my belly on my right hand side above my pelvis region. I've been rubbing it all day so it feels tender. I dont have this on the other side so I'm concerned. With my lymph node history I worry it could be a very large node. I did feel my groin node from 2007 and I felt it was a tad bit longer, but that's on the left hand side and further down. ALso concerned it's a tumour of some kind......
Could this be something simple like a muscle since I used that side much more than my left side? Or should I have this checked out?
I do seem to remember feeling something like this once but not this big

[scared88]

Could this be a hernia? Cause it's a bit tender when I touch it. Ugh....aren't they usually soft though?

[scared88]

I've been looking at diagrams and drawings of the abdomen muscles and they all just look like flat layers of muscle but what I'm feeling is a string that feels more bulgy or something. It's like a tight string that I feel when I rub the area. I'm just so worried it's some huge ass lymph node, with my history of that, or some other kind of tumour......

[NotDeadYet]

scared88

It could also be nothing. Please remember you aren't a doctor and looking at millions of diagrams is going to tell you nothing factual. If you are genuinely worried, which you clearly are, make an appointment with a GP and get it checked out.

Best Wishes

[scared88]

scared88

It could also be nothing. Please remember you aren't a doctor and looking at millions of diagrams is going to tell you nothing factual. If you are genuinely worried, which you clearly are, make an appointment with a GP and get it checked out.

Best Wishes

I might go to a clinic tomorrow and hope he can just tell me then and there what it is.....

[scared88]

Some swelling or something in my pelvic and up to my abdomen has me all worried and extremely anxious. It does kinda feel like a muscle, similar to how my biceps feel when I flex them. But it's been this way for a while.
Makes me worry it's a huge lymph node or something.
But why am I like this? My mother isn't, my sister isn't and my dad wasn't. I'm the only hypo in the family.

[ErinKC]

Is there general anxiety in your family? Anxiety can manifest in all different ways for different people. Have you seen a therapist? That can really help you pin point where your anxiety stems from and that can be really helpful in dealing with it.

I think you mentioned in another post that you do take meds. Maybe you need to speak with your doctor about adjusting them. Health anxiety is just like any other illness and it can be treated. Each time I see the note under your posts about how long you've been worrying it makes me feel sad. I suffered from severe health anxiety after my daughter was born and got help. It's flared up over the years, but it so much more manageable with therapy.

[scared88]

So I went to see a doctor in a walk in clinic. Took all of 5 minutes but he thought it could be my colon I was feeling or some parts of my instestine! Is that possible? He didn't seem to have an concerns about it.
But really, does that make sense? Is it possible to feel intestines and colon through the abdomen?! Especially since I have a bit of a belly.

[NotDeadYet]

scared88

Yes, your abdomen is made of skin and muscle not steel. It took all of 5 minutes because there's nothing there to worry about.

Best Wishes

[scared88]

scared88

Yes, your abdomen is made of skin and muscle not steel. It took all of 5 minutes because there's nothing there to worry about.

Best Wishes

It feels idk.....so hard too. I would think the colon is And I could swear I feel its thinner at the bottom and then bulges so my fear is a tumour is in there.
Also always thought it was on the left side and not the right.