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Terrified I have stomach cancer.

Nomi89
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I'm a 31 year old female, no family history of stomach cancer that I know of. However I'm utterly terrified I have it. 

I have in remission crohns disease. This time last year I had a bout of what we assumed was gastris, burning stomach and nausea. Omprezole seemed to help and thought nothing more of it. As the year went on I seemingly randomly was getting the feeling of a very tight chest, I put this down to anxiety and tried to ignore. However for the last few months it has been there all day everyday, my stomach just feels peculiar, I'm nauseous all the time with absolutely no appetite. I'm forcing water and a glass of complan down a day, I haven't eaten anything substantial for nearly 2 weeks.

I'm currently on 40mg omprezole a day, and anxiety/sleeping meds. But nothing seems to help. I'm booked for a camera down the throat on monday but I am genuinely terrified theyll find something sinister or nothing at all and I'll forever be stuck feeling like this. It's taking over my life. And upsetting my 10 year old son.

I'm not really sure what I'm looking for here. I'm just so mentally and physically exhausted :cry:

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    Hi, noticed your post when I was flicking through for some other things (husband has oesophageal cancer) I thought to myself your symptoms sound a LOT like mine 2 yrs ago.

    Have you had your gallbladder checked?
    After 4 years of 'diagnoses of IBS, gastritis, deuodenal  ulcers (oh the irony), constipation. Taking omerprazole at various doses which did nothing- on the off chance I mentioned to a locum GP I saw for yet another round of abdominal pain;' could it be gallstones? - nah he says wrong place of pain, humour me then and scan me,

    Off I goes for scan thinking oh maybe a bit of grit, Radiographer , says oh no grit; a huge bag of marbles!!!!

    I had it out coming up for 2 yrs ago. Not the slightest problem ever since. Nothing. It was like having a tight bra strap cut. The surgeon said to me afterwards, that it was rancid, had a huge stone blocking the bile duct and had been at least 20 yr in the making.

    i am still quite angry at the fact I almost had to self diagnose.

    good luck.
     

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    Thankyou for your suggestion, I had an abdo ultrasound and heard nothing back about it so I would assume something would've shown up on that. I will however enquire with my GP when I can next speak to him as I'm desperate for an answer at this point. 

    Logically I'm sure whatever is going on will be simple and nothing too sinister. However, nothing seems to help, the chest tightness is a scary feeling, and I miss food! It's been a very long and relentless few months. 

    It's very hard to stop anxiety running straight to worse case scenario, and with the chaos in the world right now anxiety is heightened already.

    I'm sorry to hear about your husband and wish him the best of luck  

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    Hi Nomi89, how have you been? I have very similar symptoms too! Did you have more tests if so what did you have? Did it show anything? The doctor doesn't seem to want to do anything (I'm 36) and I'm so worried!! 
     

    thanks 

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