DO I HAVE CANCER?Or going to have a stroke?

I have alot of pain chest on my left side near my heart,and i also have this weird thing happening to my hand it spasms and i can't move it,it's like i had been electricuted,it goe's away and comes back,it really scares me and i'm to scared to go to the doctors as i don't want to here if i'm dying.please help

Hi Rebecca,

Don't let your fear rob you of precious time. I did that for about 6 weeks this summer and something finally told me I'd better call my Dr or I might die. Well, they found a tumor in my brain and it's sitting very close to my carodid artery---which puts me at high risk for a stroke. It's also pressing against my optic nerve....screwing with my eyesight. But...I'm now getting treatment......

I still don't know if it's cancer. I won't until they do surgery to get it out. But they've elected to shrink it first.... I kind of regret putting things off now. Don't you do the same. Just take a deep breath and exhale.... Then tell yourself "I might be scared, but I want to live....so, I'm going to do what I have to do." Be of great courage.....

GOOD LUCK!! PRAYERS OUT TO YOU... Report It

You have to go to a doctor. No one here can diagnose you. I know you're afraid to hear the answer, but think of the alternative. If you get help now, you can catch whatever it is (it may be nothing) and perhaps stop it or at least slow it down. Call a doctor now. Good luck.

please just go..i was like you and it turned ou t to be something soo simple ..u r worrying yourself toooo much over this....just go to the doctor please....

Going to the doctor won't change anything about your situation, all it will do is provide information on how to treat the problem.

In the absolute worst case scenario, hearing you're going to die doesn't change anything other than your awareness.

If you're going to die, you're going to do so with or without a Doctor's opinion on the matter. However it may save your life. So go.

Have your blood pressure taken for further action

Sounds like a severe case of stupid. Go to a doctor. We don't know what you have. We can only tell you this for certain: you're going to die.

You would rather just die at home without trying to get help, than to go to the doctor and have him run some tests and help you?

im not a doctor or anything, but im pretty sure your not dying. i had really bad chest pain and a bunch of other stuff, the doctors ran several tests on me, to find out i was just being paranoid. nothings wrong with me, i was just having panic attacks. so ya im assuming your probably fine.

Go to webmd.com. It will ley u describe your symptoms. Also I think most heart attack pain is on right side. Odd but true

Trust me you are not dying and you don't have cancer and most likely are not going to have a stroke. Go see a doc just to put your mind at ease and find out if anything is wrong they can fix for you. It sounds like nerves or anxiety to me.

Doctors are HIGHLY Trained and i HIGHLY recomend going to one. if your too scared to go and you decide to wait longer and you DO have cancer or heart problems then it will be 5 times harder to treat it than if you go see a doctor now. if it's as serious as you not being able to move then i suggest going to emergency immediatly

we all die, but not in your case---try not to worry--sounds like just stresses or panic attack--hyperventalation(use a paper bag-small and breathe in and out ---it puts carbon dioxide back in to even out your breathing)---you might have pinched a nerve?-----------go see your doctor, that is why they are here. stay off yahoo answers for awhle and go take a short walk. mellow out you will be ok

I don't think you have cancer. It certainly doesn't sound like you've had or are having a stroke. Chest pain near your heart might mean you are having a muscle spasm or have injured your breast. The hand spasms sounds like a pinched nerve. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that it almost sounds like you must have run into something, or fell down. But I would not put off seeing a doctor just to be sure there isn't anything seriously wrong with you.

In a sense you are being electrocuted, it sounds to me like a rib is pinching a nerve which is attached to your spinal chord and you are getting mixed signals to a muscle close to your heart, possibly even your lung. the jolts to your hand are also a symptom of this. Do you have very large breasts? Did you recently carry a baby? I'd go get a back massage and go to the chiropractor. Tell him to check your upper back.

No one here can help you. You need to be clinically examined by a doctor. The good news is that most cancer is asymptomatic . . so you would not be feeling anything if you had cancer. As far as a stroke is concerned . . again, this does not sound like a stroke . . a blood clot maybe in the lung. This is certainly not something to sit around and wonder about. You need to call a doctor. You should be more scared of dying because you failed to go get treatment.