Health anxiety

Googling symptoms can seriously do your head in. This week I noticed a lump around my 'privates'. Google left me with 2 sleepless nights. I'm not one for going to the GP but on this occasion I had to go. I went on Friday and after examination the lump is most likely to be a cyst, so hopefully it will be ok. Lesson learned, don't google symptoms.
 
It sounds like acute anxiety which you are feeding by googling stuff and convincing yourself you have it. The first step needs to be talking to your family. Let them know, at the very least it will explain you going to the docs. Once you get the results back and hopefully you're fine, stop finding illnesses to adopt, get help for the anxiety, that is hopefully all you have. Good luck mate.
 
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A nice light one for a Saturday night...

I've done so much googling (no doubt part of the issue) and convinced myself something is quite badly wrong. Seem to be developing new symptoms very quickly and many sound like red flags. Been to the docs twice in the last week and awaiting some blood test results but not expecting those till midweek. Genuinely no idea how I'm going to sleep tonight, got about 4 hours last night so i should be shatteted but my mind is racing. Trying to hide my fears from my family is the hardest part as I really don't want to worry them.

Anyone suffer from similar thoughts? Any words of wisdom...anything will be appreciated!
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I’ve suffered with stress/anxiety before the pandemic at my busiest times in work. But I don’t suffer mentally with stress or anxiety, it comes out of my physically.

In the past I’ve had oesophagus spasms that feel like a heart attack and I get very tight trapezius muscles that give me bad neck ache and head ache, and I’m constantly feeling the need to crack my neck.

I found that stress and anxiety manifested itself more at times when I wasn’t exercising or eating healthily. Not that the different times in work were more stressful than others or not, just that my body and mind weren’t fit and healthy enough to deal with it all.

If you find sleeping hard work, use that extra time you have in the day to get up early and get a run or a bike ride into your schedule. Also, get the missus to give you a shoulder and neck message a few times a week (in return for sexual favours!).

Meditation is good n’all! Go to the room in your house you spend the least amount of time in, lie or sit down comfortably in there with some gong music and just do nothing.

Don’t take any prescribed medication neither. Humans have evolved with the ability to combat all forms of anxiety, stress and depression through lifestyle. It’s within all of us to combat it. Scientists have found that there’s a correlation between times in human history where they faced their biggest challenges (whether is be climate change or other factors) is where human brains developed the most quickly. I reckon this last few hundred years of great population growth but all the ills that come with that, including greater stress and anxiety, will drive the next human brain evolution to deal with that even better. And we will do that better by doing it ourselves, not with prescribed medication to suppress what we feel or make us “pretend”-happy!

It’s not like this virus causing this pandemic, which is an outside body invading human bodies. Stress, anxiety and depression is a natural chemical reaction inside us, where, if we are at our optimal health we will have less severe or even not have these chemical reactions.
 
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Until the op gets the results back we must evaluate the condition further to assimilate diagnose of his malidicious condition. Most members in here are very old so I assume you to be the same. I have skills in the medical field encompassing a working knowledge of anatomy, but with a few more answered questions you could afford the thread contributors a better insight into your problem. Whatever you do try not to worry and as Ric mentioned you have definitely come to the right place.

Is the dull ache within your testicular sac and does the ache travel down both legs. If so it may be something as simple as Varicoceles which also present themself as lumps. If your blood testes come back fine then maybe I would send you for a gel scan to confirm my suspicion. Have you taken any pain relief for the condition and if so did this offer temporary relief ?
 
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Until the op gets the results back we must evaluate the condition further to assimilate diagnose of his malidicious condition. Most members in here are very old so I assume you to be the same. I have skills in the medical field encompassing a working knowledge of anatomy, but with a few more answered questions you could afford the thread contributors a better insight into your problem. Whatever you do try not to worry and as Ric mentioned you have definitely come to the right place.

Is the dull ache within your testicular sac and does the ache travel down both legs. If so it may be something as simple as Varicoceles which also present themself as lumps. If your blood testes come back fine then maybe I would send you for a gel scan to confirm my suspicion. Have you taken any pain relief for the condition and if so did this offer temporary relief ?
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Just 33...very active as physically pretty fit (been running 20/10/5ks all through lockdown comfortably)

Paid in the legs feels localised to specific points but those points keep changing. It's an absolute 1/10 on the pain scale but noticeable enough. Occasional waves of discomfort through testicles but nothing persisting and no lumps.

I tried taking pain killers for the initial groin pain which didn't do anything. Not tried since.

It's the combination of everything that is getting to me. 'Finding' something new frequently and the cold hands and feet seem very odd and unusual for me as well.

Cheers for your response though, very much appreciated
 
I took me 11 months to get into hospital when it was obvious somethimg was wrong, due to delays all around due to COVID, and what they found out seemed very likely in April last year.

if it is cancer suspected they are supposed to get you in within 2 weeks, but hopefully it is an inflamed this that or the other, as the groin is complex and hard to diagnose. Probably related to increased running during lockdown :)
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I’ve suffered with stress/anxiety before the pandemic at my busiest times in work. But I don’t suffer mentally with stress or anxiety, it comes out of my physically.

In the past I’ve had oesophagus spasms that feel like a heart attack and I get very tight trapezius muscles that give me bad neck ache and head ache, and I’m constantly feeling the need to crack my neck.

I found that stress and anxiety manifested itself more at times when I wasn’t exercising or eating healthily. Not that the different times in work were more stressful than others or not, just that my body and mind weren’t fit and healthy enough to deal with it all.

If you find sleeping hard work, use that extra time you have in the day to get up early and get a run or a bike ride into your schedule. Also, get the missus to give you a shoulder and neck message a few times a week (in return for sexual favours!).

Meditation is good n’all! Go to the room in your house you spend the least amount of time in, lie or sit down comfortably in there with some gong music and just do nothing.

Don’t take any prescribed medication neither. Humans have evolved with the ability to combat all forms of anxiety, stress and depression through lifestyle. It’s within all of us to combat it. Scientists have found that there’s a correlation between times in human history where they faced their biggest challenges (whether is be climate change or other factors) is where human brains developed the most quickly. I reckon this last few hundred years of great population growth but all the ills that come with that, including greater stress and anxiety, will drive the next human brain evolution to deal with that even better. And we will do that better by doing it ourselves, not with prescribed medication to suppress what we feel or make us “pretend”-happy!

It’s not like this virus causing this pandemic, which is an outside body invading human bodies. Stress, anxiety and depression is a natural chemical reaction inside us, where, if we are at our optimal health we will have less severe or even not have these chemical reactions.
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Thanks for all that. I've found I've not exercised or eaten well at all this last week, just not had the motivation to put the effort in (I usually cook every night) and as I mentioned, no exercise. I actually slept relatively well last night though when I woke about 6 there was no getting back to sleep as all these thoughts came straight back.
 
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