I'm really tired with all these ideas about lung cancer…

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I was diagnosed with pneumonia, I don't know what stage of pneumonia I have, it was not mentioned in the x-ray results.
The results were sent to my GP, and he prescribed me medications to treat pneumonia. I think it is difficult to know what stage I have, even if I thought about this. This is because I didn't have any symptoms; I only had a runny nose, phlegm with blood, and a slight pain in the chest from time to time.
If there had been no blood in the phlegm, I would not have suspected anything serious was happening to me, and I would not have gone to a doctor.
I had this constant anxiety, and now my mindkeeps telling me that the doctors might be wrong, I have lung cancer not pneumonia, when I try to remove this from my mind, my thinking is irrational, I think it's just because I'm so afraid, I don't know, I feel miserable. Especially when I remember there was a person who was diagnosed with lung cancer after recovering from pneumonia in a short time. My mind tells me that the same thing will happen to me. I am very afraid. Is this common to get lung cancer after suffering from pneumonia?!
I cried hard in the bathroom a while ago. I'm still young, I want to live! I don't know what to think! What do I do! I want something that gives me hope and optimism!

How old are you?

I'm no expert, I just read a few things about lung cancer when my Dad got it, which might help depending on your circumstances. Essentially most people get it from smoking, and if they're not smoking then they get it very late in life. I forget what age but I think typically like 70-80+ years of age.

So, if you're not very old and you don't smoke then it's very highly unlikely. At least as far as I understand, anyways. Really tho, best you can do for any worries about symptoms is speak to a qualified GP, get them to explain as much as possible why you don't have it, if that helps?

@spookehtooth I am 26 years old.
I smoked for two years, but I wasn't a heavy smoker. A pack of cigarettes would stay with me for two months. I stopped smoking for 9 years. This is the only thing I regret that I allowed myself to smoke.
I told the doctor, when I saw blood in my sputum, the first thing that came to my mind was lung cancer. I told him that I had smoked for a period of my life. I've told him more than once that I'm terrified of lung cancer. He tries to be polite and nice. He tells me I don't have lung cancer.

At your age, and that little smoking, it does sound very reasonable to me that you don't have it.

A little bit of blood doesn't sound surprising. One of the requirements for getting oxygen into your blood is a large overall surface area of a very thin layer of skin for it to cross. So highly susceptible to tear and blood for a lot of reasons.

With lung cancer, I think the amount is quite a lot, and I'm guessing there wasn't much in your case? Or persistent coughing? My Dad's was pretty bad, staining tissue quite clearly too

Lung cancer would be detected in an x ray?
And if they had any suspicions of cancer on the x ray then they'd be doing further scans and tests.
It's highly unlikely you've got lung cancer. I know what it's like though to have health anxiety and we can end up going down a googling rabbit hole which doesn't help. Hope you're ok.

I’ve known quite a lot of people who got lung cancer and almost all of them had been fairly heavy smokers and were late 50s early 60s, so I think at 26 it’s not likely to be anything so dire.

Try not to worry.

@Lizzieregina@Swirls346@spookehtooth I'm grateful that you understand my fear, I tried to be strong during these two weeks, but I ended up breaking down and crying a lot. I haven't cried for 7 years, and here I feel panicked and extremely miserable.
@Swirls346 Apparently lung cancer can be detected from x-rays. I read the results of my x-ray tests more than 20 times. I tell myself if there was something serious, they would have asked me to come in and have other tests done.
I try to remove dark thoughts from my mind, I wish I did not read about this person who was diagnosed with lung cancer after recovering from pneumonia, I'm so afraid the same thing will happen to me.

What @Swirls346 said, x-rays are the first step in detection, so doctors viewing those and not being worried is a positive sign. Usually with lung cancer, I think, they see a "shadow" on the lung in an x-ray and investigate further. Even then, a shadow isn't always lung cancer, which is an extra point in your favour