Re: Back again - Testicular cancer update
This is how all my problems began mate!!
I found a lump in one of my old boys last summer...went to the GP who had a play and said I needed a scan, he then said it would be about a month!! Well, I totally freaked...Googled it and convinced myself I was a goner...had just finished the Lance Armstrong book as well. After about 4 days which where a nightmare I went and had the scan done privatly...result was all clear!! The radiographer advised me no lumps showed and that lumps would only show if they had a mass to them (i.e could be nasty)...things like cysts, hydrocele and swollen epidiymus would not show.
WOO HOO....I was good to go, a clear scan and all would go back to normal!
Exactly a week after the scan I woke up to dizzyness, pins and needles, buzzing, fatigue and twitching....the GP (all 10 of them I kid you not) have said anxiety but Google (you would have thought I would have learnt) said MS or ALS...well, you get the picture, all my health anxiety started after this lump scare. I have totally burnt out my CNS by worrying over nothing for years and the lump just pushed me over the edge...this meant I was totally fixated on my health and these physical anxiety sensations meant I was dieing.
Well, there you go...that is how good old health anxiety got me into the loop, still have the sensations but I don't worry about them as much now...I suppose the MS terror lurks but I know logically it is anxiety so every couple of days I just have to reconvince myself!
edit: as an aside to this a different GP checked them again after the scan and said it was clear it was a swollen tube and not attached to the testicle and that he would never have said I needed a scan. So, all this is down to my over reaction to the first doctor and his harmless suggestion....the fire of anxiety begins with the simplest of things!
Last edited by itoldyouiwasill; 28-05-08 at 19:20.
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