![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-was-told-my-pain-was-in-my-head-and-i-was-anorexic/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1_THP_CHP_130823Slug_0836JPG.jpg&description=Eva Casey, who moved from Ireland to Australia, was turned away from one hospital after another with doctors 'believing her chronic pain was in her head' before cancer found A woman has told how she had chronic pain and lost 16 kilos in 10 weeks but was told it was in her head before it was found she had cancer. Eva Casey was turned away from a succession of hospitals who claimed that the pain she had beneath her rib cage was in her head. The 36-year-old was even told by one doctor that she may have an eating disorder. The Irish dental assistant, who has been living in Australia, was given strong opioid painkillers before finally being diagnosed with gastric cancer. She has gone from enjoying Crossfit to being in extreme pain and lacking energy. She said how she knew it was bad news after having a PET scan and and a few areas had lit up, while further investigations showed the cancer was restricting flow from the stomach to the small intestine. She wrote on Instagram: 'I've been diagnosed with cancer. The dreaded, dumb, horrible disease for which there is no cure. I had chronic pain for the last almost 4 months and lost 16kg in just over 10 weeks. 'Countless trips to 4 different hospitals along with every test you could think of came to nothing. Sent home to take painkillers every time. Nothing until last Thursday when I pushed for a pet scan because I was actually scared my body was shutting down. And this was the result. Nothing can ever prepare you for that moment let me tell ya.' Eva started feeling pain last February which gradually got worse and to the point that she could not sleep. "They gave me every pain killer, Tramadol, Endone. But they weren't doing anything. I don't even take Panadol usually. I couldn't understand why they weren't getting to the root of the problem," she told the Mail. Her parents were in Australia when she was finally diagnosed at another hospital and the doctors she currently has don't understand why she was turned away so many times){kind=link}
Eva Casey, who moved from Ireland to Australia, was turned away from one hospital after another with doctors ‘believing her chronic pain was in her head’ before cancer found
A woman has told how she had chronic pain and lost 16 kilos in 10 weeks but was told it was in her head before it was found she had cancer.
Eva Casey was turned away from a succession of hospitals who claimed that the pain she had beneath her rib cage was in her head. The 36-year-old was even told by one doctor that she may have an eating disorder.
The Irish dental assistant, who has been living in Australia, was given strong opioid painkillers before finally being diagnosed with gastric cancer. She has gone from enjoying Crossfit to being in extreme pain and lacking energy.
She said how she knew it was bad news after having a PET scan and and a few areas had lit up, while further investigations showed the cancer was restricting flow from the stomach to the small intestine.