Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been having upper abdominal pain; it’s not awful but feels kind of like a stitch. It’s in the top half of my abdomen, above belly button but underneath the ribs. It’s mostly on the right but has also been in the centre and left hand side. I’ve not noticed a pattern or particular trigger, and I don’t have any notable new symptoms (have had reflux issues for 2-3 yrs though).
Ive been to the GP this week who was great and set things in motion for various tests. When she felt my abdomen she noted that I was tender in the liver/gallbladder sort of area. I’ve done everything I can for now and don’t expect a diagnosis online, but while I wait for tests/scans, I am getting completely worked up about it and convinced myself I’m dying, that this is some sort of cancer that has spread to my liver. I am aware this is probably silly, and that it’s unlikely to be anything sinister as I am fit, well, not overweight. But I am so worried that the GP isn’t just checking for the obvious like gallbladder issues, but also more sinister causes. Does anyone have some words of reassurance? Similar stories with happy endings?
I don’t normally have health anxiety but this is how similar symptoms presented in a close friend who, it turned out, had undiagnosed cancer that had spread to his liver and elsewhere.