I've always suffered from health anxiety for a number of years. I was already struggling dealing with Covid when I had 2 cancer scares at once and now I don't know how to move on past all the anxiety and fear.
It started firstly with a new mole that appeared- my GP wasn't initially concerned but after it changed quite distinctly in about 10 days put me on a 2WW for Dermatology for skin cancer. Whilst this was happening I started getting different symptoms in my neck, tightness, swollen glands, persistent sore throat on one side. I saw a different GP who very quickly told me he was worried about blood cancer. I was absolutely floored by this as I was already trying to process the possibility of skin cancer, and I lived alone and was mid lockdown so could not even get support or reassurance from family.
I had a number of tests done and thankfully nothing showed, some arthritis, some ENT issues (maybe glue ear or something), and the mole disappeared so I was discharged. However I'm really struggling to move on from it all, especially as I keep getting new, unexplained symptoms and pain arise. For example, behind knee pain, so I paid for an ultrasound and found a Bakers Cyst. But the pain then progressed up my leg and is now sitting in my lower back. I can't shake the feeling that something was missed and that this is cancer spreading throughout my body, now in my spine. I've spent out so much money on private scans and I don't want to keep doing this but I don't know how to break the cycle and accept it's probably just something normal.
Has anyone been through similar?
