Hi everyone,
I’ve been recently having a lot of trouble with anxiety related to cancer and believing I have cancer. It all started when my gran was diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago.
About a month ago I had really bad pains and Acheson in my arms,legs and knees and obviously I shouldn’t of but I looked up the symptoms on dr.google and it came up with bone and blood cancers I was obviously petrified and really distressed. I booked a GP appointment straight away and he put it down to Viral Muscle ache, a couple of weeks later it still hadn’t gone and it had spread to my knees and elbows and this really started to stress me out so I then seeked advice from another GP where under went blood tests and one came back abnormal and positive for Arthritis. I’m relieved now as I know I haven’t got anything to worry about.
A few weeks later I started getting a really uncomfortable feeling in my head it wasn’t a headache as such but it felt really tense and strained so again I started panicking and searching up more symptoms this time it came up with ‘brain tumors’ ive read all the statistics and i know it’s so rare to get a brain tumor at my age (16) but I’m still so worried. I’ve been rove the GP and I’ve always been getting really bad neck pain and that’s what they put it down to ‘tension headaches’ which I can really see as that being the case because I have not had any other symptoms and I’ve always suffered really badly with headaches. I still can’t get it out my head that it could be a tumor and it’s reallt started to effect my every day life. Has anyone been through a similar experience??