IJJ
24-01-10, 09:12
I have been through a pretty awful time recently. I lost my baby at 16 weeks pregnant and this has brought back all my panic attacks and health anxieties that I had been keeping under control. They are worse than they have ever been. I have started taking setraline but I have only been on it for 3 weeks and it has not kicked in yet and I am seeing my cpn. However I am convinced I have cancer to the point where I am visiting my GP almost daily. They do not know why I lost the baby so I convinced myself it was because I have cancer even tho my lovely doc told me it was impossible for this to cause miscarriage. But I cannot get the thought out of my mind. The type of cancer can vary from day to day but for a while I have been convinced I have breast cancer (my mum had it at 64 so that does not help.) It also does not help that I had clear/milky discharge from my nipples a few weeks after the miscarriage ( I squeezed them stupidly so this is how I know!!). I had them checked by a doctor who even asked me to squeeze them to see what colour the discharge was and examined them thoroughly and told me it was just hormanal. I was still worried so had them checked by another doc last week who told me they were fine and that the discharge would be bloody if there was a potential problem. I have now become so scared that I am going to get bloody discharge from my nipples that I am checking them constantly to the point of not sleeping at night to check them. I also really want to squeeze them to see what colour the discharge is but I know that is stupid. Anyway, thank you if you have got this far! The point to this post is I was at hospital yesterday because of a chest infection and asthma and they did a blood test while I was there. It all came back normal apart from the inflammation one because of my asthma. I know the blood test would not specifically check for any cancer but if I had cancer lurking in my body surely my blood results would be off balance?? Can anyone help, I am desperate