Convinced I have a serious fatal illness

[Sellingsunsets]

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I've convinced myself I have a serious fatal illness and I'm not sure what to do. Deep down I know that maybe I'm over reacting but the fear is real. Last week I started with pain in my upper back and my right side. This persisted for a few days, then I started to get a sharp pain in my right side but lower down towards my back but only when swallowing say a drink, not food. The pain in drinking is still there like a sharp pain. I just another post somewhere about someone who had an aortic dissection and now I'm consumed with the thoughts that this is happening to me and I've worked myself into a panic and I'm convinced I'm going to I die suddenly from this. Has anyone else had anything like this?
Just to add I do have diagnosed gallstones but this IS NOT that. I just know it's not because it's a different kind of pain and I've had them for three years. I do have diagnosed OCD and anxiety but I've been well for a long time now. I just can't shake this feeling something is seriously wrong.

Have you contacted your GP to discuss?

If you feel it is urgent, call 111 for advice.

Health anxiety exists for a very good reason. The anxiety drives us to get ourselves checked out by a doctor. This is what you need to do @Sellingsunsets .

Unfortunately health anxiety can get out of control. This is when cognitive behavioural therapy should be sought.

If it was an aortic dissection you’d already be dead by now.

Would I though? Cos I read that they can be slow rupturing sometimes

I haven't contacted GP cos I dont think they will believe me. I've spent a lot of time at the Drs and The hospital over the years and now I get robbed off with it all being in my head.

It sounds very like gallstones. It can change depending on where they get stuck.

After a week? Yeah, you’d be dead. The pain you describe isn’t even what the pain of a dissection or rupturing aneurysm is typically like. And you would certainly be experiencing other symptoms alongside it.

Even the sharp pain only when swallowing drinks?

You’ve got a new and unexplained pain.

Go to your GP.

No need to get into aortic dissection with them.

This screams health anxiety because you could easily have sorted it by seeking medical advice, but you haven’t. Instead, you are worrying about an unlikely and serious medical condition. It is contradictory.

I think youve got a gallstone that’s lodged somewhere new and that’s why it hurts and feels different. It is different.

As others have said, tell the gp. But don’t tell him your suspicions about what’s causing it, just let him/her decide what it is. If you keep coming up with things that it’s unlikely to be you will just annoy them ajd they won’t take you seriously in future. Stick with the facts: a new pain youve never had, not sure what could be causing it.

These sound like symptoms to seek medical advice on. You can do an online 111 form if you didn’t want to speak to anyone?

It also sounds like health anxiety. I’ve suffered with this in the past and it can feel so real and convincing.

if you were having an acute medical emergency there would be no question about it.

Update. I made it this far without dying. BUT this evening I had some weird kicks/pulsating feelings in my stomach. Like a baby kicking. I'm deffo not pregnant. Then the top of my stomach really started to hurt and now my upper back is hurting. Not sure what to do. Feel like I won't wake up in the morning and I really do have an AAA

Gallstones can cause pain in your upper back. Call NHS24 and ask them about bilary colic. They'd be the best people to advise you if you need medical attention.

You don't have an aortic dissection or you wouldn't be posting.

I have gallstones but I'm certain this isn't what, I've had biliary colic many times.

Paramedic here. This is categorically not a AAA.

See your GP as per the above advice.

So make an appointment to see a doctor. You can’t expect strangers on a forum (most of whom have probably had no medical training) to diagnose you.

Op I read this and thought health anxiety and some sort of OCD and having seen your previous post were you say you have a diagnosis of this and have had treatment then I think very likely this is all related to the OCD. I’d make an emergency apt with GP tomorrow and see if you can try different meds for the OCD and anxiety. It must be awful living like this. I know at the moment it’s hard to be rational but use all your coping strategies to try stop the hyper focus on health.

When you get fixated on a particular body part you notice all kinds of sensations that are in fact within the realms of normality. That’s most likely all this is. You should see your GP though. Do you have MH meds? Do they need reviewing? Have you had CBT as this is by far the best for OCD and anxiety much better than meds.

I has the weird fluttering that felt like a baby kicking after my gall bladder was removed, I still have it sometimes but couldn’t explain the feeling to the consultant, definitely gall stones or gall bladder related.

you should check with your gp in case u have a stone stuck

Being realistic as other posters have said it’s not an AAA - a paramedic has also said this.
BUT it is a new, prolonged pain and it is perfectly valid and essential that you seek medical help.
There is REAL pain, alongside this is a level of anxiety causing you to catastrophise this, it’s ok- once you identify the real pain and it is remedied, you can then work out this spiral of anxiety.
It doesn’t matter how many time in the past you’ve seen your GP - you have REAL pain and you need medical support, it is irrelevant the things you have been for in the past - sort out this pain, advocate for yourself and get help.

Someone that a leaking aorta would not have the blood pressure to be on hold a phone/ compose a post on Mumsnet. If blood that was held in a vein suddenly ruptured flooding your system you would have more symptoms than ‘Pain while drinking’. , I don’t doubt you feel unwell but the medical event you describe is not AAA.

Get to A&E. I had the same and had to have gallstones removed as they were blocking my common bile duch and I turned yellow. You will have blood done and likely be put on strong antibiotics. The sooner the better so go there now.

This sounds like the pain I had when I had gallstones. I’m here living and breathing.

Worried you might be about to die, yet seeking advice from mumsnet rather than a GP or other suitable professional? You may as well go ask in Halfords, they diagnose stuff.

I’ve had the feeling like being kicked (by a baby) it was just trapped wind.