Hi
I hope this is okay to post, but I need someone to talk too
I am looking for some advice. I have severe health anxiety and am terrified that symptoms i am having could be the worst case scenario.
To put into context, around 6 -7 weeks ago I started to get this pain on my right side just under my rib cage and the odd time in the back of my rib on the same side. Just one single pain that would come and go. On the 11th of november however I slipped down my stairs at home and most of the impact was on my right side.
I visited the doctors even though i was terrified and told him about this pain and explained my fears of pancreatic cancer. He felt all around the area including my rib and abdomen and he said he didn't feel anything out of the ordinary and sent me on my way.
Fast forward a week later I was a complete wreck as since I had visited the doctor, the pain and discomfort and gone from my right side under my rib cage up into my back and right shoulder and a little bit on the left side too. I went back to the doctors again and told her my fear of what I thought it was and she advised me that I'm not even in the remit for pancreatic cancer as I am only 36. She asked me where the pain was and again wasn't concerned and said it is more likely to be muscularskeletal and my anxiety causing this and that my initial pain in my right side was nowhere near my pancreas and again sent me on my way.
Since this doctors visit i have had back ache in my mid to upper back, which has convinced my anxious brain more that something is terribly wrong.
I genuinely don't know what to do. I am absolutely terrified of it being the worst.
I lost my sister at age 27 to cervical cancer, a couple of years later lost my nanna to lung cancer which spread to her brain..a few years after that in the same year my partners mum got diagnosed with lung cancer and my other nanna, then a year after that my partners auntie got told she was terminal with cancer. It is all around me and all I can think of that this is the same for me.
