Mark,

A couple of points here;

1) Given the tests you have had, and the quality of the institutions and doctors that preformed them, it is almost a certainty that you do not have cancer.

2) It�s great that you have insurance that will pay for any test and or doctor visit you could wish for at the drop of a hat, but that all goes out the window if you lose your job.

3) Your only remaining consistent symptom is a scratchy throat. Given the extremes you have gone too recently I think you are overdoing it. Get some Halls lozenges.

4) Although you may have never presented with OCD in the past, your notes here look very much like a classic case. Forget about the cancer doctors and stick with the Psychiatrist. You need to get back as much of your old life as you possibly can before you end up destitute and friendless.

Somewhere down the line you convinced yourself that you were stricken with cancer and going to die. You are refusing to take �no you don�t have cancer� for an answer.

PET scans primarily work well for those who have a confirmed case of cancer. They are good tools to measure the progress of treatment. You have already had all the tests used to confirm cancer and they were all negative. You aren�t close to losing it, you�ve lost it. You need as much help as you can get to get back to the life you had before. You won�t find that help in a cancer center. Call that psychiatrist back.