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Hello... Insane fear of lung cancer.

Shelbiantonia

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First time posting.. Hello everyone. My body was shaking uncontrollably earlier today. Then threw up shortly after that... I've had health anxiety for years. But recently I was hospitalized for double pneumonia. I was on iv antibiotics for 15 days. I got another chest x-ray the day before I got out of the hospital and it was foggy on the right lung. The girl who did the x-rays kept staring at the pictures and then she said I'll be right back. Like out of a movie ! Came back with another doctor and asked what I was in the hospital for and if I have ever had cancer. WTF! Then nothing else and sent me back to my room. . My other doctor who has been seeing me everyday since i was admitted came in and said that's normal..It could take up to 8weeks to clear up, if anything gets worse to make an appointment. So I started feeling these crazy sensations in my right side/ lung area under my breast for the first time..its been 7weeks now and my doctor said its probably normal and if she takes more x-rays the pictures possibly wont be cleared all the way up. So come back in two weeks if I keep feeling it and get the chest x-ray. I feel like she's not taking me seriously, like it's no biggie..nonchalant. My mind has been spinning to the point that I have no energy to keep it up.. I didn't sleep last night because my mind won't let me. . I literally never stop thinking. ever. The Obsessive, morbid, horrifying merry-go-round of thoughts are racing though my mind. Since I have got home I feel all these crazy sensations in my body. Like my organs kinda ( for lack of a better term) lol And it only got 100 times worse since i went to the doctor.. like my anxiety is making my body hurt. Does anyone else ever feel like their insides hurt? It's crazy to think your mind can do this to you. Seems like the horrible thoughts try to take over your soul and body. My family tries to reason with me and tell me it just in my head... To me it can't be more real. I live it in my mind and that is traumatizing on it's own. I try to snap out of it but just as fast as I do another thought flys to the surface. My family is very supportive, which I am so thankful for...but they could never fathom the full extent of what's going on in my head. Sorry I wrote a book..at least it was a few minutes that I got to calm down. Thanks for giving me a platform to talk..
We are brave and can get through this
 
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Shelbiantonia

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Sorry,what do you mean by that
Before the lung cancer anxiety it was pancreatic cancer. That's been going on for a few years now. Seems like its getting worse as I get older.
 

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Hi and welcome onboard!

Tbh, your concern brings me back just a couple of years, where I had the exact same fear. Also, it's not completely "without cause" because I've done a shitload of hash in my youth and now I suffer recurrent respiratory infections needing antibiotics, often after recovering from a common cold. Two years ago they did an X-ray thought, and couldn't find anything, so my recurrent pneumonia is still a mystery. Needless to say, I'm shitless scared of this corona virus. They say it hits the lungs, which seems to be my weak spot, sigh. I think I'll try and duck this bullet, or get some sort of vaccine.

Anyways, hope you're okay, and welcome to the forum!
 
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