I also am a recent nervous nelly. Last month I lost friends to breast cancer, brain cancer and recently 2 years ago someone to pancreatic cancer. This month I had a friend die from a heart attack and a friend mother died of leukemia. Death seems to be all around me. So last month I felt pains in my chest and breast and for 2 weeks straight I thought I was dying of breast cancer I went to the ER and I also had a mammogram done, results were negative. Now I am having upper, lower and side abdominal pain. Naturally I think of pancreatic cancer. Made another ER trip and he said he would check everything out but he only did labs and a chest X-ray because the pains radiated to my chest. I lost my appetite, I constantly worry. Labs came back good again. But as a nurse I know that labs don't detect cancer and I know symptoms ( the problem of knowing too much) yeah sure everyone says you're fine but I am disturbed and a nervous wreck. I can't eat or sleep. Now I all of a sudden have urinary retention and the small amount poop I have has a tonged of blood when I wipe. My panic attacks and anxiety are thru the roof! I can't cry but I'm ready to just fall apart because no one will really listen because I AM A NERVOUS WRECK!!! I'm scared to death and if death! Someone please help😔
Hi there,
You've had a very hard time lately with so many bereavements. I'm not surprised you feel so anxious, but try to put it into perspective. death really is all around us, just as birth is.
Have you seen a doctor and asked for help with severe health anxiety?
You know that there are meds that could help, and therapy to let you get to the bottom of why you're so anxious.
I hope you can talk to your doctor or a therapist (or both) and can start the journey to recovery. It isn't easy but many people suffer like this and there is help out there.
Keep posting on this forum, too, to get support from others who suffer extreme anxiety.
Hi you are a nurse and so am l so l assume you are not a mental health nurse.You deal with and specialise in physical illnesses however this is not a physical illness.Through all the traumatic events you have dealt with over a short period of time you appear to have developed health anxiety which is not surprising.l would advise you go to your doctor and ask to be referred to a therapist.Trust me you need it and you need to get it as soon as possible.
The blood coud be due to haemorrhoids. If your poop is small then you may be constipated and was straining passing a stool. This could cause a small blood vessel to break etc.
Th best thing to do is just to inform your dr who can arrange a further test.
ER is not the ideal place to investigate any conditions other than 'emergencies' as you know.
Try not to worry.
Thank you guys all for even responding. Just listening to you guys gives me hope. This is the most I have gotten a response from. I truly feel better and have made an appointment with a doctor that I hope doesn't stay out of town. 😊😊
LOL
At least you still have a sense of humour!
I understand your pain..... labs will eventually show cancer if it gets to a certain point. However , I had pains like you in my side and backnand abdomen and I was terrified of same thing. I had abdominal ultrasound, CT scan of abdomen and pelvis done, chest x-ray and upper GI series.... all normal!
I had a close friend recently just die suddenly from a heart attack, it was so unexpected, it sent me into anxiety frenzy about health. Ironically that's when my pain started. Now I can't get rid of it. I think I need to find a way to decompress.
It's just scary when you can't get a clear diagnosis for something. Taking me a while to realize stress and anxiety causes chronic pain.
For your own piece of mind get the CT scan done. It will show you that your pancreas and all organs are clear!