Anxiety is eating me up [View all]

Last Thursday I got an MRI on my lower lumbar region for hip and back pain. I am so bad about medical tests. I am losing my mind waiting for the results to be posted on my patient portal. All I see so far is the MRI images which of course I can't read, but I stare on them worrying that i am looking at something life threatening or crippling. I am 77 and shouldn't be such a baby about these things. I don't think that I am experiencing anything other that some disk issue or mild stenosis. None of this discomfort keeps me from doing what I want, but my heart is racing and I am terrified.
Can anyone relate to this and tell me how to stop panicking about all this. I do it with every blood test and doctor's exam. I need to calm down and I just can't.