Severe health anxiety and cancer worries

Dear all,

It is interesting to read all these posts and realise I am not alone.  I am so scared of being diagnosed with something terminal and not seeing my two boys grow up.  Like others of you, I scrutinise and Google every ache, twinge, pain etc to the point it is beginning to impact upon my enjoyment of 'life'. I hate the impact it is having and know that the worrying will make things worse but I am unsure how to get out of this cycle.  

I think it links back to a few years ago when I lost my grandparents within a month of each other and I went to see them in hospital. I myself also had a 2ww referral for my Liver last year which fortunately turned put to be a hemangioma.

Chinchops76

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  • I'm going through this yet again at the moment.

    I'm 54 and have had bowel cancer twice in the last 5 years.

    I live in fear of it coming back again, like living under a black cloud.

    I'm ok and then I get a new ache/pain and off I go, imagining the worst of what could happen.

    I have a feeling my GP is getting a little fed up of seeing me although if I hadn't kept pestering with my symptoms in the past I probably wouldn't be here now. It took 18 months to get diagnosed the first time and over 6 months the second.

    I do feel the 'what if's' are spoiling my quality of life. I hate it!

  • Hi can i ask wot ur symtoms was plz iv been goin bk and forth gp for 2 years with stomach problems had ultrasound all cone bk ok bloods ok then got.pregnant had no problens with my stomach now iv given birth got the same lroblems with my stomach again. I have a diagnosis of health anxiety and it is takin over my life xx

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  • Hi can i ask wot ur symtoms was plz iv been goin bk and forth gp for 2 years with stomach problems had ultrasound all cone bk ok bloods ok then got.pregnant had no problens with my stomach now iv given birth got the same lroblems with my stomach again. I have a diagnosis of health anxiety and it is takin over my life xx

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