Please help if you have a moment. So the short of this is i'm quickly approaching 40 and I am having terrible health anxiety or I'm trying to say it is. The problem is I am freaking out about having pancreatic cancer, because on and off for a year or two i've been having these GI symptoms where i wake from night terrors at 5:00AM with panic and have multiple formed bowel movements. I went to my MD for this and he was going to prescribe an anxiety med, but he wanted to check my heart first. My heart showed a large P wave when he thought was benign but mentioned it. I went to the ER two weeks ago for it and now in two weeks i've had diarrhea three times in two weeks. I have normal blood work like perfect. My Bilirubin is 1.0 which is fine. But i'm scared of having or getting pancreatic cancer. I had a CT scan 1.25 years ago when i had influenza and it showed a accessory Splenule which if its that is nothing but an artifact, but what if its was the the start of a pancreatic tumor? This is all the stuff going thru my mind. I have vague slight GI distress but nothing that would bother me if I wasn't scared of this disease. I have no jaundice, no pain, no weight loss (only gain lol) no loss of appetite, no vomiting or nausea of note. Im just so scared.
Amanda
Did your GP discuss the findings of your tests with you at the time ?
If your GP feels your test results are ok I would go with that, however it would seem you need some form of support and a little bit more understanding because of your fears.
Ask regards your fear of cancer and see what He says. However you need to understand if your tests are clear you will need to move on and address a possible Anxiety
BOB
What if you ask your doctor if a splenule can or cannot be the beginning of tumor? I’m sure your doctor would know the answer to that. If it cannot be, then you can relax. I am having G.I. symptoms and it’s going on 2 1/2 months. I have terrible indigestion, sometimes bowel cramping, no diarrhea or vomiting. My labs were also OK, don’t know result of my abdominal ultrasound yet and I am scheduled January for and endoscopy. I’m thinking possible ulcer but my mind also goes to the real scary stuff like you were thinking about. But I have to stop myself.
The CT scan you had done would have shown a tumor if there was one. At this time it doesn’t sound as though you have a tumor because if you did you would be very sick by now. We cannot worry about the possibility of getting some terrible disease in the future because worry does not add one single day to our lives. It just makes us sick. You could go for a yearly CT scan if you want just to make sure everything’s OK. In the meantime enjoy your life! I’m like you. My stress in anxiety actually makes me sick and that’s why I may have an ulcer . All from worrying my whole life!
EASY FIX! Buy a carbon monoxide detector at a hardware store. Put one near the hot water heater, one in hallway by bedrooms. Believe me, they are so loud and you will wake up instantly.
But the odds of a carbon monoxide problem are low. The amount of carbon monoxide we may get from stoves or cars is so small it has no effect. Otherwise we would all be dead. It’s when it’s concentrated like sitting in a car in a closed garage and it builds up. The way gas stoves are made these days there is no problem with carbon monoxide. Millions and millions of people have gas stoves with no problems. Like I said, it’s the intense concentration of carbon monoxide that is the problem not general
Thanks for responding. I just feel like i'm spiraling out of control. I've lost weight because i'm so nervous I can't eat. It seemed like everything got terribly worse once my ECG was done and the MD told me I had an abnormal P wave. I mean I think it's always been that way though. I have no blood work indicative of cancer.
Sorry about the bottom half of my response. Somehow my answer for somebody else got in this. That’s weird!
Thanks, I am just reading over and over on google and ruining everyone's life around me. I feel like i'm losing control or i'm crazy lately, but i'm very level-headed and normal. I'm just so scared.
Amanda
When I was a kid, just born they found I had a heart murmur, hole in the Heart. When I was in my mid twenties they had XRayed my heart after a car accident and found the problem once more. I went through all the test at a leading Heart Hospital in the North and by that time my GP had contacted the specialist and explained the diagnoses from a child and that was it, I am still here and sometimes I get the odd twinge
It is important you are comfortable in your own skin, have another word with your GP regards that P wave and see how you get on.
BOB