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My chest has been hurting for a long time. I saw the doctor for it a year ago and he said its chostocondritis after listening with a stethoscope and prescribed me some anti-inflammatory and painkillers.

I finished one course and it didn't really help so i went back in a couple of weeks and I asked him if I could get an x-ray and he wasn't happy but he gave me a signed request anyway, and another round of pills. This was a year ago. I never got the x-ray done because it was around that time that Covid was becoming a thing and I didn't want to go to a clinic.

I read that most cases of costochondritis should resolve in a year or so but mine hasn't gone away. I'm paranoid about it being cancer or a tumor or spurious growth. But right now covid is full blown retard mode and I don't know what I should do. I think I'll call the x-ray clinic and tell them I forgot about the slip and if I need to go see the doctor again or would they just do the x-ray.

I hate healthcare in Canada. You can't just pick up the phone and call the doctor that's treating you. I hope I don't hajve cancer