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@scottbeammeup
Hay do not put yourself down. We all have different levels of worry and anxiety. What one person can deal with another will not. It is one reason MCC was developed.
Just be optimistic about why retest. If you are seeing a NP ( in my case they are called PA) it means the MD doesn't need to see you. So look at the optimistic side of that. A test may need to be done again if an error occured, etc.
When I was told the results of my MRI was I had a 70% chance of it being cancer and thus had biopsies. I chose to say I am going to be in the 30% and not have cancer. I stayed as optimistic as I could. Have you considered asking your medical advisors for some anti anxiety depression type medicine.
I take a Escitilpram (spell) for anxiety/depression. Not a very high dose but was told most like would have to take rest of life. It does help me but again we are all different and what is good for me may not be for you and why your medical providers should recommend medical treatments and medications.
Can I asked if you have an exercise you like doing? How about a hobby? If you have either they can be a real help in lowering anxiety and stress. This (exercise and hobbies) is something every one of my doctors at Mayo stress to me to find and continue doing. Doing hobbies or exercises you like helps you both physically and mentally.
I assume since you had testostrone test you had hormone treatments. They maybe wanting to keep that in a certain (I did not have hormone treatments) level and want to make sure test was accurate. Hormone is something they want to keep down to starve any cancer cells. Per my urologist testostrone is not a indicator of cancer just how much is in your body. Testosdrone (per urologist and R/Os. PAs,) feeds cancer cells thus the treatments to lower the amount in body.
I do wish you good luck and a note to keep your chin up. Do something you like to do and let us know how you are doing.
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| Can I asked if you have an exercise you like doing? How about a hobby? |
For exercise, I like hiking with my dog and bicycling, which, with winter heading out, I can start doing again. I also do weight training in the gym. I wouldn't say I "like" it but I don't hate it either. One thing that surprised me about it is how insecure some of the "muscle heads" are. They look great to me but are super critical of their bodies and I often hear them discussing tiny flaws amongst themselves "my traps are too small" "I hate my delts" etc. I mention this because it seems everyone is insecure about something.
As for hobbies, I'm retiring soon and looking forward to having more time to devote to them. My life for the past few months has basically just been work, exercise and doctor appointments.
I like mixing and creating music. I have a couple of physical synthesizers and about 30+ software ones. I've signed up for an online songwriting class so I can better at it.
I also have been learning Spanish. I can read it fluently and understand "CNN en español" because the announcers speak clearly, but when I go to a bodega it still sounds like gibberish. I hope to get better at that. My Spanish teacher is sponsoring a three week trip to Peru next February with no English allowed. I'm definitely signing up!
I also do volunteer work with a crisis line for teens and plan to keep doing that. It's all done through text now because nobody under 30 uses the phone anymore.
And I don't know if it's a hobby or not, but I like playing board and video games with my nieces and nephews, but they have to do the boss fights because I no longer have the reflexes for them 😃.