matisworried
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I've been dealing with a nagging cough for years which I've always attributed to having LPR (like acid reflux but worse) but over the past year I've had some shortness of breath which was really unnerving and got me second guessing things. of course, my brain went straight to things like lung cancer and copd. i saw my doc yesterday and we went over my medical history. she's confident it's nothing serious, possibly allergies. the relief was (very) short-lived. when i got home, i started getting a crampy pain in my upper left abdomen, which is something I've experienced here and there for awhile. it can happen when I'm doing nothing but it definitely is made worse by movement : twisting, arching my back, etc. i came here and started looking around the boards and came across a post from someone that was afraid they had colon cancer due to narrow stool. another poster reassured them that narrow stools weren't considered a symptom anymore and quotes an article from a gastro doctor stating this. the article then goes on to list ACTUAL symptoms of CC, one of which was, of course, upper left abdominal cramping. the old, familiar "overwhelming feeling of doom" filled my brain once again. now I'm back to being nearly non-functional. while I've never had a colonoscopy (i just turned 43 with no family history so i'm still considered too young) i try to remind myself that 94% of CC take 10-15 years to develop and a CT scan of my abdomen in August '18 saw nothing in my GI except for "rare diverticula." (the scan was done to look at my kidneys, not my colon.)
anyway... yeah... i'm freaking out quite a bit but it also made me think:
has this place ever made anyone besides me MORE anxious?
anyway... yeah... i'm freaking out quite a bit but it also made me think:
has this place ever made anyone besides me MORE anxious?