Hypo
19-03-13, 16:34
I just got back from the dentist and now I am really scared.
My anxiety has been focused around oral cancer for a while now. A month ago I went to my dentist twice in one week about two bumps on my tongue and he said it was fine.
Today was my routine clean and before we started I asked him to check out my tongue again :paranoid I found two soft fleshy looking lumps underneath the tongue at the back of my tongue that dh said must be normal as they are identical both sides and this is what I was hoping to get reassurance for today. He had a brief look and said he will refer me but I don't think he looked at the ones under my tongue.
I was no longer worrying about the bumps on the side as I have had them for years. It was the fleshy looking ones underneath.
I heard him talking to the dental nurse and he said that on the referral he wanted her to put "patient been three times in fear of oral cancer so asking for referal"
I asked him again if he thought it was cancer then and he just said I prefer to refer you but the first time I went he spent ages reassuring me :paranoid
So now I am totally scared he thinks I have tongue cancer :(
My anxiety has been focused around oral cancer for a while now. A month ago I went to my dentist twice in one week about two bumps on my tongue and he said it was fine.
Today was my routine clean and before we started I asked him to check out my tongue again :paranoid I found two soft fleshy looking lumps underneath the tongue at the back of my tongue that dh said must be normal as they are identical both sides and this is what I was hoping to get reassurance for today. He had a brief look and said he will refer me but I don't think he looked at the ones under my tongue.
I was no longer worrying about the bumps on the side as I have had them for years. It was the fleshy looking ones underneath.
I heard him talking to the dental nurse and he said that on the referral he wanted her to put "patient been three times in fear of oral cancer so asking for referal"
I asked him again if he thought it was cancer then and he just said I prefer to refer you but the first time I went he spent ages reassuring me :paranoid
So now I am totally scared he thinks I have tongue cancer :(