Cancer? Health anxiety!!! Help me plz!

[Meganlillymai]

So I'm 22 suffer with major health anxiety as I out every time thing down to cancer! I've gone from bowel cancer throat caner cheek cancer !! (Due to a lump I found in my cheek) now the new one is just cancer! I have this strange lump jus under my line like underneath? It's about a pea sized. Very very mobile and when I touch it it's as if it's been sucked bak into my neck and was tender but not anymore? I've had a cold so I thought lymph node ad the ones behind my ears has swelled a bit aswell but it's jus so small! I should do the logical thing and go to the docs but I'm terrified as its a huge phobia of mine. Anyone any id use or no wat this could be. Also lump is kind of soft and cold has passed.

reading your post was like a mirror image of me. not sure if that is good or not :) as i suffer from really bad bouts of anxiety re cancer/health stuff from time to time so you have my sympathys'. fraid' the only advice i can give you IS to go to the dr. i find lumps here and there and always feel pure terror. sometimes i can reason with myself and calm down but usually the only way i can deal with it is to either a/go to the dr or b/pay and go private which isn't ideal as money is tight but my sanity is important. go on, go to the dr, sure it is fine but you need to have your mind put at rest

I'm so scared of the tests and the hole waiting thing. It's so scary. BUT I've decided if it doesn't go within 2 weeks I'm going even just to get peace of mind. So scared.

meg don't be daft! believe me, i am more than familiar (unfortunately) of the fear involved in waiting for results BUT i always tell myself that if it is nothing then i would have been in terror for longer than is necessary and if it was somehting bad then it has more of a chance of being sorted the sooner they work on it so go on, make an appointment tomorrow!

I had something like this, was on my collar bone - I also suffer from health anxiety, was hysterical as you can imagine - doctor suspected a cyst - told me STOP FIDDLING WITH IT and see what happened, i was like, are you mad?? im clearly dying! um, i did manage to leave it alone - it went!

go to the doctors tomorrow - not because i think its serious, i don't but because you will have two weeks of hell if you don't go! loads and loads of lumps in neck area - i posted about this a few weeks back, it could be a salivary gland, you are not clear exactly where it is - i get these just under my jaw line? sometiems they can be quite big. Then there alre loads of lymph nodes that if you fiddle with them they will get bigger. Salivary glands definately mobile - mobile is good, tender is good

Thankyou girls. And believe me if it was easy for me to make an appointment I really would. It's defo mobile and sometimes I can't even find it!

You have health anxiety, not cancer.

It will not be helpful to you to have people discuss cancer with you- you need to see a DR about possible CBT therapy to overcome the real issue here.

Thankyou apply. Today is a better day I feel so good in myself I havnt focused on it all day really and I always feel so better after talking about it. I got a pain in my chest before and thought my lung have failed then repeated it to my self what I just thought and laughed at myself at the thought nosing how silly it was! So today's a very good day

HA is an absolute fucker as I can testify to.

You need a mantra and another focus. Yes, repeat to yourself something like ' the condition I have is called HEALTH ANXIETY ' and concentrate on how you will recover from that. The sane side of your brain KNOWS this to be the case, but the fearful, panicky side just gets carried away.

I'm going to set myself some goals. I want to lose weight so I'm going to diet. I'vebooked a holiday so looking forward to that and just gonna stay busy. The lumps still there but I'm going to stop playing with t for a while and leave it be because if I'm looking for lumps under my jaw- I'm going to find them as there is properly a few. The sun has been shining aswell. That always lightens my mood :)

My mother died when I was little and I am terrible for this. I have a terror of the dr and every twinge is the sign of impending death. I am 44 and am still well and in fact have NO major illnesses ever. I know how you feel though. I just try to distract myself.

Well today I have a pain. Not sure if its my ear or throat it's only when I swollow! So I'm back to whole cancer thing AGAIN

Could Wisdom teeth growing cause pain? My gum were my wisdom tooth will be feels strange. My throat is slightly sore and so is my ear?

Go to the doctor, you need to get this sorted xx

I can't Lucy I'm so scared. I've been fine all day I havnt worried or anything but now because I'm bord I'm worrying again

STop it now!!!! What are you scared of if you go to the doctors? Go to the doctors - tell them you have terrible HA and you need some help. Don't talk about your worries specifically. I used to worry that once i went to the doctor it would confirm i was terminally ill You cannot go on like this - but you CAN sort it out x

I suppose I cld go and talk a out my HA. Ok ladies. I'm going to make an appointment , x

I've suffered for years from health anxiety, along with GAD panic disorder and obsessive thinking. sigh I have bought a CBT book from Amazon (not started it yet) as definitely need to sort these problems out. It's totally debilitating. Having said that, a trip to the doctor wouldn't go amiss if you have health concerns. They won't think you're being silly.

It's not the fact I'm ashamed they might think I'm being silly, it's more I'm scared about being sent for scans and everythin it totally freaks me out.

When i finally saw my Dr about my HA, it was following me pitching up in the treatment room in hysterics because i thought my tonsils were tumours!

I was referred as an emergency patient through to my GP, the GP just wanted to talk about my HA - nothing else. Its not about looking at your symptoms and ruling things out, its about dealing with things rationally.

Well gonna make an appointment for next week,(busy this week) and to be honest. I'm quite looking forward to just getting everything off my chest. I always feel soooo much better ones uve spoke a out about it all?

I did well tonight-I had one of my moments where I get really anxious and scared. So took a long walk to dunhelm mill and bought some new things for my kitchin lol by the time It entered my head again I laughed it off thinking A&T everything I had done that day and the amount of walking runny about I had done.... There was no way I had cancer!! 1 big plus for meeee :D

you're 22 years old. Are you going to believe you have cancer for the next 60 odd years?

trust me - no point in anyone talking about illness with you- it will fuel your fears and it just masks the real problem. and if you have a fear of scans etc... what do you think happens with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer? An awful lot of scans

See your doctor and explain the issue.

I'm going to speak to him about my HA explain why I'm worried about and what I'm worried about and see what he says from there

I noticed my little girl has some lumps on her neck and remeber the doc saying it was jus crissle. My lump feels exactly like hers