You don't know if it is anything in your throat that is doing it, if you hork you can get the blood from your nasal passages, sinus's etc. And your throat doesn't have to hurt to have little capillaries that have broken. Throat cancer is MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR!! It usually comes from years upon years of excessive smoking and drinking. Believe me IF you had it, you wouldn't just be spitting up little amounts of blood - it is dibilitating!!! And one of the worst cancers around, so don't go there OK? Let her check it out for you tommorrow!!
Also a question, have you only recently started being like this? Or is this a problem you have had for years? As in thinking the worst and the panic attacks?
Also a question, have you only recently started being like this? Or is this a problem you have had for years? As in thinking the worst and the panic attacks?
I tend to always think the worst about my health especially, always been a little panic but never as bad as i am now.
Just be aware that because you're feeling so anxious that you're also prone to hypochondria. Just realize that anxiety has A LOT of different symptoms and to concentrate on the anxiety instead of worrying about your health. Trust me, when I was suffering from anxiety symptoms myself, I thought I had skin cancer, and schizophrenia, and all kinds of other problems that later turned out not to be true. I spit a little blood out this morning myself. You know what it turned out to be? I forgot to floss the other day, and my gums were bleeding a bit.
Good advice HFG! See Marc we all - who are answering you on here - have suffered through this, this is why we can give some advice on it right? I just thought of something and forgive me if it upsets you to ask this OK? But can I ask how your mom died - bless her? And if she died from an illness has your dad been prone to worry about the little things?
The main reason why I ask this is because my mom had cancer 5 times through 25 years. So I have some problems and each time I automatically go there!! To cancer! I try not to but I think "Yep that's it!" I presently suffer all the time from basel cell Carcinoma!! Or the least skin cancer - not the dangerous type. I'm always expecting them to call me and say "you have melanoma!" (Knock on Wood!!!!) So that's how we understand what you are going through hon. It's just people like myself and HFG are at the end of it - doesn't mean we don't have the occaisional "NOW WHAT?!!!" but we handle it better. Like HFG said at first he saw blood than realized it was gingavitis!!! You WILL get there too hon, WE promise!!!
The main reason why I ask this is because my mom had cancer 5 times through 25 years. So I have some problems and each time I automatically go there!! To cancer! I try not to but I think "Yep that's it!" I presently suffer all the time from basel cell Carcinoma!! Or the least skin cancer - not the dangerous type. I'm always expecting them to call me and say "you have melanoma!" (Knock on Wood!!!!) So that's how we understand what you are going through hon. It's just people like myself and HFG are at the end of it - doesn't mean we don't have the occaisional "NOW WHAT?!!!" but we handle it better. Like HFG said at first he saw blood than realized it was gingavitis!!! You WILL get there too hon, WE promise!!!
My mum died of breast cancer :-( and thanks yeah guess i am just so worried about having some serious problem with me, it can be any little thing, like if i get a headache i will think i have brain tumor or somethings, sounds stupid don't it?
Not at all! And I would hazzard a guess that your dad has had to deal with this too. Because KNOWING all about cancers and the ups and downs - so to speak - of them I know that your dad and poor mom probably went to doctors that said - "Oh it's nothing, I'm sure!!" etc etc. and then WHAM!!!!! When you have been through trauma and pain like loosing a loved one to a disease it is automatic that you would think the same! You can't possibly wrap your brain around the fact that your poor mom had this symptom and that symptom and died from it, yet you have this symptom and that symptom and its all in your head?!!!!!!! You cannot fathom that at all, and probably neither can your dad. Which without him knowing or want to do of course, has probably passed that worry on to you. When you were so little and he was a single dad, anytime you had the normal aches and pains of a child I am sure he would react in away that he would think - and thus you would pick up - that it COULD be REALLY BAD!!!
I am a very lucky woman in the fact that I have about 10 or 12 girlfriends that i have had for over 30 years. And one of them died suddenly 3 years this coming October. My dearest friend took it the hardest of all of us, she was a mess! One day she called me up and said "Dawn, I have uterine cancer!!!!!!!" :'( :'( :'( I was like "WHAT!!!!!>" she said "I punched in all my symptoms into the computer and it said I might have uterine cancer, I KNOW I have it!!!" I asked her what her symptoms were, and then said "You don't have uterine cancer, you are in the beginning stages of menopause!" She wouldn't hear of it, she had convinced herself that because our dear friend - who was in optimum health - had died, that one of us was next. She went to her doctor told her the same thing, the doctor replied just like I did! And eventually had to put her on anti depressants for a short time, because she was having such a hard time with everything. And like I said yesterday Marc, because of my experiences I try not to go to the worst, but you can't help it.
That said, you are young, healthy and have your whole life ahead of you. And can you imagine later on in 70 or 80 years going "DAM I wish I had enjoyed life, instead of worrying about loosing my life!"? I know what you're thinking - easier said than done. But it WILL come to you, and you WILL be the same as us hon - I PROMISE you!! Also I know your British, but are you or your family from another country or have you guys always lived in Southern England? I will tell you why I ask that question after your answer.
I am a very lucky woman in the fact that I have about 10 or 12 girlfriends that i have had for over 30 years. And one of them died suddenly 3 years this coming October. My dearest friend took it the hardest of all of us, she was a mess! One day she called me up and said "Dawn, I have uterine cancer!!!!!!!" :'( :'( :'( I was like "WHAT!!!!!>" she said "I punched in all my symptoms into the computer and it said I might have uterine cancer, I KNOW I have it!!!" I asked her what her symptoms were, and then said "You don't have uterine cancer, you are in the beginning stages of menopause!" She wouldn't hear of it, she had convinced herself that because our dear friend - who was in optimum health - had died, that one of us was next. She went to her doctor told her the same thing, the doctor replied just like I did! And eventually had to put her on anti depressants for a short time, because she was having such a hard time with everything. And like I said yesterday Marc, because of my experiences I try not to go to the worst, but you can't help it.
That said, you are young, healthy and have your whole life ahead of you. And can you imagine later on in 70 or 80 years going "DAM I wish I had enjoyed life, instead of worrying about loosing my life!"? I know what you're thinking - easier said than done. But it WILL come to you, and you WILL be the same as us hon - I PROMISE you!! Also I know your British, but are you or your family from another country or have you guys always lived in Southern England? I will tell you why I ask that question after your answer.
Thanks for your advice :-) and i am sorry about your friend, yeah me dad does worry alot too about littlet things, na me and me family have live in the south east all our lives, English and proud :-) :-) also i sometimes i get scared of losing me dad, like a while ago i heard me dad coughing at night so i rushed into his room to make sure he was ok.
I understand TOTALLY hon! This is an absolutely normal reaction for both of you! How can you help it?!!!!!!! The reason why I asked if you were Red, White, and Blue blood is that a LOT of other nationalities - such as Eastern European, Latin Countries etc. Can react differently to medical issues. My mother inlaw is Yugoslavian, and if she has a headache it's a brain tumour. I think it is from nationalities that have had Great suffering and seen great suffering in their lives. Also other countries express their emotions more than we stiff upper British do - I HATE the term Brit, so I don't use it!!! 8-| - We have a genetic deformity that says "You will NOT go to a therapist! Shake yourself and get on with it!!!" It's a weird thing isn't it? I remember when I had to go to a counsellor, I was more embarrassed that I couldn't pull myself together and get over it that actually going to see a therapist.
And I think this is why there are 10 million people in Britain who suffer from some sort of depression or anxiety!! Because they think they are being "Daft"! and weak right?!!!
And I think this is why there are 10 million people in Britain who suffer from some sort of depression or anxiety!! Because they think they are being "Daft"! and weak right?!!!
I had quite a bad spell of my symptoms today, i think it's because i had a very large drinking session last night XD (9 cans of beer and some brandy) i felt good at the time like i normally do when i drink :-) started to sober up before i went to bed and my breathing started again and muscle twitching, went away so i went to sleep around 3am, woke up at 12pm feeling fine, but as the day went on i started to get the symptoms back which got worse :-( it scared me quite alot, it went away after a couple of hours but i strill don't feel great :-( i am so worried they missed something on the tests they done, which plays on my mind all the time, one minute i am thinking "no this is anxiety" the next i think "god what if they missed something and i am dieing" it is literally driving me crazy, making me so depressed, despite what people say on here, i can not deal with this just by telling my self "this is fine" because i really don't feel that way, so yeah i think its safe to say i have had a really bad day today regarding this anxiety depression thing :-(
"I think that you may be having difficulty breathing because you do smoke! I am thinking that you may have some sort of issue like that because it sounds to me like that's causing your issues. Have you seen a doctor about this recently? I know that they did tests on you awhile ago but it should be something they shoudl check again. Can you go back to see a doctor?" HFG WROTE IN MY OLD TOPIC.
Well now you know it's me, you know i have tests done :-)
Well now you know it's me, you know i have tests done :-)
I have never and will never say you can get over this by saying "this is fine"! You have to get some help from professionals to help you determine why you are having this, even though I'm pretty sure why, BUT I'm not a professional.
You are 18 Marc, if it is from smoking - which you haven't told me before! Then you could have bhronictis or a bit of asthma! Drinking is the WORST you can do for yourself. OF course you feel great while being drunk! That's why there's alcoholics, I know that Ireland stopped smoking in bars, does that apply to England too? Because if you are smoking and around smoking and drinking then you WILL have a TERRIBLE time breathing after. I don't smoke, but if I'm around it I cough up a lung. IF you continue to drink and smoke like this then there WILL be something wrong with you sooner or later right?!!!! So start taking care of yourself and stop all of this until you get control of it. What would you rather have Marc - being pissed or healthy? Since I'm on all these pills, IF I was to drink, let me tell you my liver isn't too happy about it!!! And because you are probably a binge drinker, your body is also not going to be too impressed. So you have to take it easy.
The chest exra you just had would have shown ANYTHING BAD! So since you are in a bad way,, you need to have a full check up done. BUT that said, do you think you would still believe it when it comes back that you are fine?!!!! That's the thing here! If you are showing symptoms of hyperchondria, NOTHING anyone is going to tell you will make sense to you! And you will always look at the bad side. So you need to get checked on and find out the answers, THEN get some help for what you can't control! Like I said before hon, this isn't new to myself or any other with panic/anxiety attacks, but it's new to you. So you need to get to the same point as us! BUT I want you to do it without drugs, they are BAD for your age MARC! REALLY bad! You could infact end up having the same problems you are convinced you have now. So when you see your doctor next, ask for a checkup and ask them to send you to a counsellor/therapist OK
You are 18 Marc, if it is from smoking - which you haven't told me before! Then you could have bhronictis or a bit of asthma! Drinking is the WORST you can do for yourself. OF course you feel great while being drunk! That's why there's alcoholics, I know that Ireland stopped smoking in bars, does that apply to England too? Because if you are smoking and around smoking and drinking then you WILL have a TERRIBLE time breathing after. I don't smoke, but if I'm around it I cough up a lung. IF you continue to drink and smoke like this then there WILL be something wrong with you sooner or later right?!!!! So start taking care of yourself and stop all of this until you get control of it. What would you rather have Marc - being pissed or healthy? Since I'm on all these pills, IF I was to drink, let me tell you my liver isn't too happy about it!!! And because you are probably a binge drinker, your body is also not going to be too impressed. So you have to take it easy.
The chest exra you just had would have shown ANYTHING BAD! So since you are in a bad way,, you need to have a full check up done. BUT that said, do you think you would still believe it when it comes back that you are fine?!!!! That's the thing here! If you are showing symptoms of hyperchondria, NOTHING anyone is going to tell you will make sense to you! And you will always look at the bad side. So you need to get checked on and find out the answers, THEN get some help for what you can't control! Like I said before hon, this isn't new to myself or any other with panic/anxiety attacks, but it's new to you. So you need to get to the same point as us! BUT I want you to do it without drugs, they are BAD for your age MARC! REALLY bad! You could infact end up having the same problems you are convinced you have now. So when you see your doctor next, ask for a checkup and ask them to send you to a counsellor/therapist OK
Yeah same here you cant smoke in pubs ect. Yeah i think i may be a bit of a hyper :-( i hate it though, everything i get wrong with me i think it's serious and i convince my self of it, my dad was angry because even after the visit to the A&E and all the tests coming back ok i was still saying i had something wrong with me :-( i know drinking and smoking is bad you, but sometimes drink is the only thing that gets this horrible feeling away so i drink and when i drink i tend to smoke alot :-( i really need to stop with this don't I? but i find it so hard to stop smoking i have done it many times but never succeed :-( as for drinking, i was never never a heavy drinker before this anxiety i would have a couple of beers on a Saturday and that was it, but now i drink lots more much often, you would be glad to hear i aint had any today :-)
I TOTALLY get the drinking Marc! It's a depressent and you get foggy and forget what you are having! Smoking has nicotine in it, so this increases your heart rate, your lungs get clogged etc. ACTUALLY if you think about it hon, smoking could have a LOT to do with your symptoms and not so much the panic! Granted you panic from the symptoms - so it's a catch 22 isn't it? And if they put you on a patch, its the same thing = nicotine patch!!! So you have to stop smoking somehow. Even if they eventually put you on an anti anxiety pill, it's really bad for you to take any stimulants with them, kind of what's the point?!!! XD Just had a thought, are any of your friends on anti depressents?
Umm not but i do know someone who has taken them before, how comes you asked that? yeah but i have only been smoking for 5 years (yeah i started young) me dad has been smoking for 30 odd years, also i always think what is the point in stopping smoking when every one in my house smokes, regardless i will be getting into my lungs somehow right?? so i just continue to smoke, also i thought you said something would of shown on my chest x-ray if it was something serious??? i am confused again XD
Xray shows BAD, but for you to rule out asthma or anything bhronical you will need to do a lung test. Blowing into a machine to see how much strenght your lungs have. You have a little point about you not smoking in a smoking house BUT why add to it? 2nd hand smoke is VERY bad, but not AS bad as 1st hand. Also IF there is something going on with your lungs, your dad will HAVE to start smoking outside. Actually everyone should do that anyway. The reason why I asked about your friends is that if you have friends who are "like minded" you are more easily influenced by the fact that they have "this problem and that problem and they took this drug and that drug etc"
Smoking is an excelerant, it makes you dizzy, it raises your heart rate, it clogs your lungs etc. etc. So a lot of the symptoms you are having could be directly traced back to your lifestyle. If you really think about how much smoke gets in your lungs, from yourself, your family and your friends, it would be substantial!!!! So if you can cut out at least 1 of the 3 then there will be some improvement right? You know what it means to smoke! But your addicted brain doesn't want you to stop!! So it's your choice, for you to be healthy both physically and mentally you have to take the steps to get there. Typical teenager!!!! ;-) XD "Oh it can't be the things I'm doing - even though their bad for me - it HAS to be something else!!!" ;-) XD So next time you see the doctor ask her to run a lung capacity test on you. They will put you on a tread mill, or a bike or have you exert all of the air in your lungs out!
Smoking is an excelerant, it makes you dizzy, it raises your heart rate, it clogs your lungs etc. etc. So a lot of the symptoms you are having could be directly traced back to your lifestyle. If you really think about how much smoke gets in your lungs, from yourself, your family and your friends, it would be substantial!!!! So if you can cut out at least 1 of the 3 then there will be some improvement right? You know what it means to smoke! But your addicted brain doesn't want you to stop!! So it's your choice, for you to be healthy both physically and mentally you have to take the steps to get there. Typical teenager!!!! ;-) XD "Oh it can't be the things I'm doing - even though their bad for me - it HAS to be something else!!!" ;-) XD So next time you see the doctor ask her to run a lung capacity test on you. They will put you on a tread mill, or a bike or have you exert all of the air in your lungs out!