Hello everyone, my name is Tanya and I guess I will start by letting you all know I am a 30 year old female, smoker working on quitting the disgusting habit. I have been having some medical issues and I am worried about cancer.
Cancer runs heavily on my mothers side of the family, I never met my father so I am unsure about his side, I do know both my father and his father died at the age of 51, of what I am not certain. I will give you some back round and hope that someone may know more then me because I am very scared at the moment..
When I was 22 years old I started getting heart PVC and at the time I had no idea what it was and was so afraid that I started to get panic attacks. At the time I didn't know they were panic attacks though. I thought something was wrong with my heart and that I was gonna die and this thinking caused me a lot of grief and caused me to develop a very bad case of health anxiety. So before I had any answers I was so afraid that I would run to the er and I am not being dramatic when I say I was at the er every day or every other day. I would go to the er and they would do blood work, ekgs and chest X-ray not find anything and send me home.. sometimes I would be so scared that I was gonna die in my sleep I would leave that er and go to another, have all the same test ran and still have no answers. I did this for a while. I finally did get answers but it was a long and stressful time later. I have had a bit of cat scans to, some proved to be medically nessceray because I did have a real problem but a few of them was because my health anxiety made me think that every little pain I had was life threatening.I have so many regrets. I didn't know at the time that I was harming myself by having all these test done.