Uterine cancer
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I am now convinced I have uterine cancer
I have all the symptoms. My symptoms are more watery discharge, abnormal bleeding. Im obese, started my periods at 12 and I still have them at 55. I just had an episode of gushing/flooding blood for about 6 hours. It was just pouring out of me with huge massive clots then nothing but spotting after. I spot between periods. This has been going on for about a year on and off.
I thought this was peri-menopause but I don't thinks so anymore. The watery discharge with the flooding of blood has me so freaked out. I'll am doing is crying all the time. Why can't this just be normal menopause.
WHY CAN'T I JUST BE NORMAL?? I just want to rip my uterus and ovaries out of me
I'm so scared!!!
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mk94
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I've had no test done.😳I am terrified of doctors and tests. I think the waiting for test results would kill me. But not knowing is also going to kill me. I am so messed up right now. I feel this is the end for me. If I get tested and have cancer I will die. If I don't get tested I will still die . I can't do this anymore
CINDIANA mk94
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mk i wish I could help. I can't because most of the physical symptoms you have i don't.
I'm 49 and think I'm in perimeno. my periods are almost regular but scanty, but I do have at least half a month of spotting. my gyno says that this is normal. I have not noticed discharge but thinking back now its thinner.
if your discharge is colorless then its normal. if its greenish or yellowish or smells then get it checked. there's no point in living through anxiety.
I'll tell you one more instance of how anxiety freaked me out. I was taking a shower when I slipped and bumped my head. 6 days later, after goggling concussions and hematomas and worrying so much I couldn't breathe I took a CT. it came clear. still I worried because now I was vomiting for no reason at all. then I took an mri and it was clear. the neurologist only laughed at my worry. she only said that the human body is so strong that it can take a beating and the head is the strongest.
see that doctor. get out of your misery. stress causes anxiety and hormonal imbalance which can wreck havoc with your periods, discharge and your moods. I'm sure you want a better life.
be brave. you're gonna be fine. see the doctor.
sandeep08592 mk94
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definitely agree with you. I've just a hyperscopy to check for uterine cancer due to heavy periods. All clear and they removed a polyp.
please go to the Drs
mk94
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thanks ladies for trying to calm me down. Like i said i severe health anxiety. I just can't go to the doctors.
I am so terrified it makes me sick to my stomach.
Here's a list of all my symptoms.
I've always been very regular up in till last summer. My periods were always on the heavy side lasting 6-7 days. I was told I have a fibroid when i had my last child but it never bothered me. Fast forward to Dec. 2020 My periods went crazy. I didn't have a period from Feb-May . Then I had light period for a few days and then after a week or so I would get a flooding episode with no warning of huge clots for a few hours and then it would go away and I would just spot on and off until my next period. So now 2 days ago I got another huge flooding episode out of nowhere of massive clot and just gushing blood for like 6 hour. I was so scared I was going bleed out. I ended up going to the ER but left before I saw any doctors. I was to scared to stay because I was scared of a Cancer diagnoses and my bleeding slowed down to spotting again Now I"m spotting again as I write this post waiting for the next gush of blood clots. Why is this happening to me I'm so effin scared of dying and leaving my children behind.
sandeep08592 mk94
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honestly I've got major health anxiety. But since always now making Drs appointments it's calms it down, my health anxiety.
Agree do make an appointment on Monday and you'll feel so much better after having a scan.
you are making yourself more ill going through this. You can do it 💪
LisaM1234 mk94
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Hi, I also had flooding periods and constant spotting in the last few years before my period stopped, also changes in discharge consistency. The doctor sent me for a transvaginal ultrasound, the lady doing the scan told me I had 6 fibroids( I'd previously been diagnosed with 1 while pregnant) nothing else sinister.
No matter how terrified we are (and a lot of us are) we have to force ourselves to go to the doctors when something needs to get checked out, for our piece of mind. Ring the docs on Monday and make an appointment. Good luck
mk94
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This bleeding is never going to stop 😢
I'm so scared!Today I am just spotting red mucusy blood when wiping. Im just waiting for a gush to happen anytime. I'm scared to leave my room.
Why do I just have random flooding with clots with no warning at all that only last a couple of hours and then its back to spotting. In my mind this can only be cancer.
Gypsy014 mk94
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mk I think that when we enter perimenopause and hormones start to fluctuate it creates all kinds of horrible symptoms, and some of those symptoms can definitely be bad health anxiety! I had/have it bad also along with it came agoraphobia I couldnt even leave my house when this all first started for me.. when I was 27 i had a routine pap that came back positive for precancerous cells..so out the uterus came..but they left my ovaries in so i could have a natural menopause..but as soon as blood supply was cut off to my ovaries I started symptoms pretty quick...and when cervix and uterus were sent to the lab all cells were in cervix only and hadn't made it to uterus yet so it was all removed..i think just because you are bleeding heavy that is one of the signs your periods are winding down to come to an end.. it doesn't necessarily mean cancer! health anxiety can rule you during this transition..only way to know anything for sure is a check up and thats a personal choice that you need to make for yourself.. i definitely understand your fear, and i can relate!
maddysmom2015 mk94
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MK,
I can hear the fear you have. Many of us on this forum are immobilized with health anxiety. We know where you are. The vagus nerve gets stimulated and the sympathetic nervous system goes into over drive. It feels like there is very little the conscious mind can do to de-escalate. We feel like we are going to die if we are treated or untreated, so nothing matters.
We've all done the same googling, finding symptoms that fit our fear, and self diagnosing. It's absolutely brutal. I also hear you about the waiting. I mind the test (slightly) less than the days of uncertainty.
What I can say is that your symptoms sound, like LisaM says, like benign fibroids. My friend Sarah had them exactly as you describe. She even used the words you did, "why can't I be normal?"
The fibroids were visible on the ultrasound and she and her provider made a plan. She's absolutely fine and runs circles around me in department meetings.
If we promise to be here for you, can you go to the doctors? You can PM me if you like. We can do it together for your beautiful children, one step at a time. You are not alone in this. I promise
MaddysMom
mk94 maddysmom2015
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Thank you Maddys mom
toria_07298 maddysmom2015
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lovely message, i agree, unfortunately you can pm on here anymore x
mk94
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If I don't go to the doctors for this will I just bleed out? There is no end in sight for all this blood. I can no longer leave the house
maddysmom2015 mk94
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MK,
I hear how scared you are. I have been there; I've been too afraid to urinate for fear of all the blood I would see on the paper.
Benign fibroids can cause this kind of bleeding. My friend Sarah had to wear a super tampon and a pad and change those every 90 minutes. Another friend with them (they are ridiculously common) became anemic.
Anemia can fuel the panic and undermine executive function in the frontal lobe of the brain. Essentially, we are paralyzed, terrified, and cannot make decisions,
In a step-wise way, we need to get you help, so we can put this behind you and get you back to yourself. A professional needs to hear about your bleeding and together with you develop a plan. (The plan might be "fibroids? Whatta ya gonna do?" and you go home knowing you are OK.) Do you feel like going to the ER again? Given the last experience?
If not, which provider can you call tomorrow? Would you feel better if the initial appointment was virtual?
Making that initial appointment is terrifying for us with health anxiety! You sound like the most devoted and loving mother! Can you channel that love and devotion inward? I promise you, this is not cancer.
You can absolutely PM me before, during and after any conversations with providers. I am alone in the world and that accentuates the health anxiety; I truly feel you.
Maddysmom