I have generalised anxiety disorder but am currently in the middle of a full-blown anxiety attack of several days duration due to health anxiety. Wondering if there are any fellow-sufferers out there who can talk me down....
I found a lesion on the roof of my mouth just under a week ago and despite having been to the dentist yesterday, I'm not reassured. She told me it was probably caused by some trauma that I didn't notice at the time or an infection (possibly herpes), she didn't think it was sinister and asked me to come back in a week to make sure it had gone. But of course to me it's oral cancer on which I'm now an expert thanks to Dr Google. I'm doing my best not to check the lesion but it's bloody hard keeping my tongue away from the damn thing. My anxiety is so bad I've had to get some Diazepam from the GP to get me through the week. All I can think of is having to be referred for cancer assessment, waiting for results, diagnosis and early death....
Am not helped by the fact that I work in a GP practice and patients are being referred for suspected cancer all the time...