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bg77
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EVERY TIME I go for a test, scan, whatever, (medically I mean) I sit in fear until the test is done, then in fear again until I speak to my Doc. So far, aside from flatfoot and very early-stage osteoarthritis of the knee, I have no actual chronic medical conditions. Well, except anxiety which I've been on meRAB for previously.
Recently I've been having weird abdominal pain that really isn't associated with any digestive symptoms.
GP is sending me for a CT scan. She seems to feel that it's possibly diverticulosis/itis, and her other hypothesis was some type of hernia, but she was unable to find anything pressing around in there.
I just know that they'll do the CT and:
A. Find nothing and do more tests
B. Find something really bad
C. Find something nonspecific and do more tests
I always fear cancer or a chronic condition like MS, Chrons, etc...and then always assume it will be untreatable or late-stage and that I would then say I'd have rather not known since I'm obviously gonna die anyway... :dizzy:
People say "well even if it is cancer it might be early" and I say "no, I look online and Dr. Google says that colon cancer rarely has symptoms that early, so I just *know* it will be metastized and stage 4 and I'm as good as dead..."
My logical side knows that it's unlikely to be anything unfixable or terminal, but I fear it anyway...do others do this and what can I do about it?
Recently I've been having weird abdominal pain that really isn't associated with any digestive symptoms.
GP is sending me for a CT scan. She seems to feel that it's possibly diverticulosis/itis, and her other hypothesis was some type of hernia, but she was unable to find anything pressing around in there.
I just know that they'll do the CT and:
A. Find nothing and do more tests
B. Find something really bad
C. Find something nonspecific and do more tests
I always fear cancer or a chronic condition like MS, Chrons, etc...and then always assume it will be untreatable or late-stage and that I would then say I'd have rather not known since I'm obviously gonna die anyway... :dizzy:
People say "well even if it is cancer it might be early" and I say "no, I look online and Dr. Google says that colon cancer rarely has symptoms that early, so I just *know* it will be metastized and stage 4 and I'm as good as dead..."
My logical side knows that it's unlikely to be anything unfixable or terminal, but I fear it anyway...do others do this and what can I do about it?