operant conditioning

[rmd]

it's been over 2 years, and my tests and CAT scans are clean, but i still think OMG!! TUMOR!!! when i get a bout of plain old ordinary gas pain.

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[ceo]

It's not a tumor.

[dpolicar]

Classical, actually. And hugs.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I sometimes think that and I didn't have cancer, so I can't blame you in the least. Then again, I tend toward a bit of the old hypochondria. :-} May your CAT scans continue to be clean.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

oh yeah ... I so get this.

I got a cramp in my calf a few days ago. "OMG, it's a BLOOD CLOT that's going to TRAVEL TO MY LUNGS AND KILL ME!!!!" In reality, I think I just pulled a muscle.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

You don't want to know how often I've thought I was having a heart attack due to various sillinesses in my body. I totally understand you!

[jiapa.livejournal.com]

Ah, I totally sympathize. In a much less significant way, every time I have a bad period, I think, "Oh mi god, the fibroids are back and I'm going to have to have surgery again and I'm not going to be able to have kids and..."

Of course, I haven't mentioned this to my student health PA guy (in liu of having a doctor, since I am a student) because, after all, it's not cancer.

Come to think of it, finding any incipient fibroids early enough to have them removed non-surgically would probably be a good thing. Maybe I'll ask him for an ultrasound consult next time I'm there.

Anyway, good luck!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah for clean tests! I'm glad.

Ooof over the thoughts. And *hugs*

[kjc.livejournal.com]

CANCER FREE! WHOOPEE!

I know it's probaby a split-second freak-out, but seriously - when you have regular gas, you don't look like pale, watered-down misery sprawled on toast, moaning quietly in pain.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

well, it was a bit worse than plain old gas pain. this was double-over OW OH MY GOD kind of pain, but then it stopped hurting (well, after a couple of bouts over about half an hour). so, yeah. definitely not cancer.

my current theory is 1. something really bad with dinner. probably a chicken wing since claudia had no distress and she ate everything i did but the chicken wings. 2. a really bad reaction to a new (to me) sweetener i tried in my tea yesterday (although i'd had a smaller dose before with no ill effects, so either it's not that or there's a sharp knee in the graph of the tolerance i have to it).

[hanseth.livejournal.com]

What sweetener?

(ObCancerRelated: Every time I feel a lump in my breast I'm convinced it's cancer. Usually it goes away with my cycle, though.)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

xylitol. i've been drinking way more tea, so i've been experimenting with a variety of sweeteners to find something that makes the tea sweet without making it too sweet.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

let's keep you cancer-free :)

but you're not alone - there's a few things that can ramp me up that quickly into medical worry as well

I hear ya...

[catness.livejournal.com]

-- pain trigger
++ test results

May you have many more of the latter and none of the former.