When was the last time you visited a doctor? A week, a month, maybe a year ago? If you are like most people, it’s been too long. Many people don’t go to the doctor unless there is something ‘seriously’ wrong. For example, many won’t pay a visit to the hospital if they have a common cold or headache or even a stomach ache. However, what many of us are not aware of is that something as simple as a stomach ache can be the sign of a huge health issue.
In a recent interview, 74-year-old Richard (not his real name), said that four years ago he had been experiencing what he thought were stomach aches. It was not until the pain intensified that he finally decided, “Let me go to the hospital and see what happens. They decided to run a couple of tests.”
At the time, he said, he thought it was probably a heart problem and was thus shocked when he received a positive prostate cancer diagnosis. “The urologist did a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test and he suspected right away that it was cancerous.
Then he sent me to the MRI people and they did an MRI, but I don’t think that showed anything,” he said. According to the man, after a biopsy was done and the results came back, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. “As you know cancer always makes a person think certain things so I nearly dropped dead,” he said. This was in 2013.
