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pauli70
Hi all. I was diagnosed with sliding HH roughly 15-20 years ago but have not been taking medication as I felt that I could cope with the symptoms I was having-mainly just a horrid sicky feeling at the back of my throat. Foolishly I have recently started googling HH and what it can lead to so I plucked up the courage to go back to my gp for advice. He confirmed that the acid can cause inflammation and said he wants me to have an endoscopy which scares the life out of me and blood tests. When he checked me over it was a bit tender just below my breast bone. I have convinced myself that it's the worst case scenario and that they will find cancer. Gp never mentioned cancer but when I left I made a comment about hopefully it won't be anything dodgy to which he replied 'hopefully not'.
I am so scared of having the procedure and what they will find. Also I am worried about why he is sending me for lots of blood tests. Is this normal?
I'm a 41 year old mum of 3. I lost my mum to cancer when she was 40 so as you can imagine the paranoia of going the same way does not help! I'm so scared..
The blood tests aren't very much in particular really, they're all just the usual things, thyroid / liver function, diabetes, anemia and inflammation markers and things like, the Gastroscopy is going to be about the worst thing you'll have to endure and whilst not pleasant it is painless and if you can keep your eyes from watering quite interesting to watch and see what's going on down there 