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ummm melodramatic, or not...
So basically i am a teen girl and have concerns about cancer, growing up i actually almost raised my 3 siblings whilst my mum suffered from cervical cancer and my dad worked so i have experoenced the effects cancer can have on the peopke around you and the strain it put on my family and my mums body. Though all is pretty good now i am scared because i dont want to die yet and i dont want to sound melodramatic or pathetic but i want to get checked for all tyoes of cancer as i also have skin and breast cancer in my family medical history. Can i walk into my gp and say chack me for all types of cancer? Also could i be making syptoms up in my head? For the last 3 months i have been worried about this mole on my upper inside mole that i dont know whether has changed bit it is a funny shape and kind of looks like someone has smeared it like paint with like a speckled effect. My family are unwilling to take me to the doctor as they think im making it up for attention and im wondering if its worth persisting. Another thing is that forthe lat 1 or 2 months ive had pains in my bones, like it actually feels like the inside of my bones are in pain. I know it doesnt make much sense but yeah im confused. Its mainly in my shoulders, wrists, feet and ankles. People are telling me its growing pains but im 5,8 5,9 ish and none of my family are particularly tall so im hoping i have or am close to stopping. Lastly it could just be inherited but my eyesight recently degraded significantly and i have dull pains like the start of a headache that then disapear without the full blown headache. Am i imagining it? What should i do? Please help!:( i dont yave many people to share my concerns with and now im worrying about cancer and then i feel guilty because i could just be being pathetic whilst people actually have and suffer from cancer.
Is the mole raised or flat? (Raised is not usually cancer.) Regarding your bones, are you getting a calcium supplement every day? If you are not, getting enough, your bones can actually ache. Regarding your mom's cervical cancer, did she get it from having hpv? (If you get the hpv vaccine, you will not get it hpv, and besides, there is nothing genetic about getting cervical cancer from an acquired virus.) Look up each cancer you're worried about, and get some facts. It helps A LOT.
Rather than ring up the doc and say "Hey, man, test me for everything, I'm sure I'm seriously ill with cancer" ask instead to go in soon for a general check-up. Your family can't say much about that, you should have one every year or two. (If you have to, tell your mother that your periods are acting funny. That should do it.) Then kick everyone out and tell the doctor that you are very anxious about particularly breast, cervical and skin cancer because various members of the family have had these. The doctor will ask you for the closeness of the relationship (my doc yawned when I told him my aunt had had breast cancer after menopause, for example, but if it had been my mother and before menopause, he would have sat up and taken notes). Anyway, the wording of it as you feeling anxious over these things is true -- you certainly don't know you have cancer, but you obviously feel anxious after watching a loved one suffer, and maybe the doctor will have some wise words about the chances and the odds, and also a plan for how often to get checked, that will help you feel a bit more in control. Please remember that no cancer just appears one day and the next day you are very sick or die. You can get your skin or your cervix checked yearly, for example, as a standard practice.
Take care, it does sound more like anxiety than illness, but there is no reason not to go get a checkup and open the topic of anxiety. Lots of people come to see the doc because they're worried they will get a disease they have seen others in the family have to cope with. It will help to talk it over.
Rather than ring up the doc and say "Hey, man, test me for everything, I'm sure I'm seriously ill with cancer" ask instead to go in soon for a general check-up. Your family can't say much about that, you should have one every year or two. (If you have to, tell your mother that your periods are acting funny. That should do it.) Then kick everyone out and tell the doctor that you are very anxious about particularly breast, cervical and skin cancer because various members of the family have had these. The doctor will ask you for the closeness of the relationship (my doc yawned when I told him my aunt had had breast cancer after menopause, for example, but if it had been my mother and before menopause, he would have sat up and taken notes). Anyway, the wording of it as you feeling anxious over these things is true -- you certainly don't know you have cancer, but you obviously feel anxious after watching a loved one suffer, and maybe the doctor will have some wise words about the chances and the odds, and also a plan for how often to get checked, that will help you feel a bit more in control. Please remember that no cancer just appears one day and the next day you are very sick or die. You can get your skin or your cervix checked yearly, for example, as a standard practice.
Take care, it does sound more like anxiety than illness, but there is no reason not to go get a checkup and open the topic of anxiety. Lots of people come to see the doc because they're worried they will get a disease they have seen others in the family have to cope with. It will help to talk it over.
Which is the intensity of the pain? It is worse at night? Has been spreading red,white or blue pigmentation to surrounding of the mole?
Well you probably just think you are having these pains and such but better safe than sorry.It's also very good that you are taking precautions at such an early stage.Just try and explain to your parents.Sit them down and talk to them.Tell them what you're feeling.Let me know what happens ok.
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