I’m worried

Hi Everyone,

I haven't posted in a while but am worried about something.

When I was diagnosed, my lymph nodes were clear, so I didn't have scans. I will start by saying, I have always been extremely health anxious, but I can't help it.

Anyway, about a month before I started chemo, I felt some discomfort on my right hand side, in the waist area, and kind of going further in towards my belly button, also a bit of an ache sometimes where my right kidney would be, and sometimes rumblings up near rib cage with a bit of bloating sometimes that would then subside. I've always also had a touch of ibs.

I will also add, I was majorly stressed by the diagnosis of breast cancer at first and became fixated by this righside pain after googling that the liver is in the right upper quadrant and that her2+ likes the liver. I was pressing hard into my side loads of times every day, reading up everything about liver mets, and suddenly then, feeling worse.

I went to my gp, she said it might be ibs or some sort of inflammation.

I started AC, the discomfort just stayed there all the way through, I hurt my left side one day after I got kicked with a rugby ball and the pain on the right disappeared for about a week and a half, then came back the same.

I went into it with the oncologist who didn't feel it was anything, he said liver mets don't present like that, he did a physical examination and assured me that my blood tests were perfect and he felt it was totally unrelated. He said by the time there is ongoing pain for what was about three months at that stage,that there would be other signs, and blood results would fluctuate.

I started Taxol and herceptin and I got a few new aches and pains in my upper and lower back and I seemed to have some more rumblings up towards my upper abdomen as well as still having the side ache, I said it to the doctor at chemo and she said it was most likely colon issues etc and she knew by my bloods and to look at me, that I was fine. I went to my gp again and was given a months supply of pantoflux, which on day 9 of taking them, the pain has disappeared, but it also coincided with the day after my 3rd Taxol and herceptin infusion and now I'm worried it was the chemo that made it stop.

Would the pain have gone after the first Taxol and herceptin infusion if it was related or more likely the 3rd? Does liver pain just disappear like that overnight on chemo, without even a twinge after? Could it have been the pantoflux kicking in? Would a radiation planning scan show problems when I go for that ? Am I mental? I'm so anxious all the time, it's horrible. This bloody disease!!!!!

Sorry about the long and winding post