by Lazzaro » Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:16 pm
I'm quite sure you don't have any kind of cancer. Healthy 25-year-olds just don't get cancer, in all but the most exceptional of circumstances. Cancer is a disease of age, and tumors typically take 30+ years to develop - so you haven't even been alive long enough to get it!
Your weight is healthy - bordering on underweight - so you aren't at risk of diabetes and your body is handling your current diet fine. People in their twenties can generally eat what they like and be perfectly healthy. Again, diabetes is a disease of age. Type II is rarely detected until at least the 40s.
What is going on here is psychological. The mind is a very powerful thing, and once you start to worry about your health, it can produce the associated symptoms to try and scare you. If you're worried about your pancreas.... boom, it produces twinges in that general area. But abdominal twinges are not a sign of cancer. Most cancers are painless.
The fact that you're going to the bathroom a lot suggests to me you have anxiety issues. Anxiety floods your system with adrenaline, which speeds up all your systems - heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, and bowel movements.
Anxiety often manifests as health anxiety / hypochondria. So look into getting your anxiety treated - not through medication, but through relaxation techniques (yoga, meditation), or Cognitive Behaviourial Therapy (CBT).
Health anxiety is extremely common in people in their 20s and 30s (those least likely to be ill!), and a good CBT practitioner can help you correct your faulty thinking so you stop worrying about your health and enjoy your youth. Google CBT with the name of your city, and you should get some useful results.
Good luck!
EDIT: @ Mrs. Miller, yes, of course young people CAN get cancer, the same way people can smoke 40 a day, eat rubbish, and mainline whiskey, yet still live to 100.... but the point is it is very uncommon!
Children who die from cancers are born with these cancers, and they are VERY rare. As this guy has reached 25 without dying, he obviously didn't / doesn't have an inborn cancer.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend, but you must emphasize / realize how rare this is. It is very VERY rare to get any kind of fatal disease in your twenties. Such diseases are all but unheard of in 25-year-olds.
This guy has health anxiety. So the last thing he needs is ominous scare stories about the very rare exceptions where people of his age get seriously ill. We agree there is nothing wrong with him, so let's concentrate on that!