Polyp found, full blown panic attack

[hopeful927]

So I felt what I thought was a hemmeroid. It it just felt different and I felt I needed to get it checked out. I went to the emergency department in a full blown panic attack and was just hoping I would be sent on my way with my anxieties alievated. As soon as he felt it he said no this is not a hemmeroid, it is an anal polyp and it needs to be taken out. I just had a colonoscopies a year and a help ago, so he thinks it is pretty new. I am panicking. My husband is lost for how to help me. I don't know what to do. Please no more panic community, I really need your help.

[GlassPinata]

I don't know much about this, but I think I've read that colon polyps are common (almost universal, in older people) and usually benign? And that most have no malignant potential.
I could be wrong, but maybe look into it & do some research.
Even if it does have malignant potential, I believe it takes them a long time to turn dangerous. Lucky you found it early.
Best wishes.

[hopeful927]

I'm only 41 though.

[GlassPinata]

I'm only 41 though.

Yeah, I could've sworn I once read an article that said tons of people have polyps, and most are benign. And only a certain type has the potential to become malignant.
I don't want to google it, because i'm afraid I'll get triggered myself.
But you should. I mean, it's your body, it's your condition.
Look into it.
I could've sworn I read something to that effect years ago, when my dad had a colonoscopy and I was worried about him.

[Catherine S]

Hi, in view of the replies you've already had, you're now thinking that you have the type of polyps that just might turn cancerous right? I'm not nervous to Google as my h/a is more or less non existant these days, and statistically the chances of this happening is practically zero. As with other parts of the body, tumours are tumours and polyps are polyps and never the two shall meet!

My brother unfortunately gets these polyps and has them removed every now and again. I say unfortunately because they are a nuisance rather than anything sinister.

ISB x

[GlassPinata]

I had both cervical and endometrial polyps, and none were cancerous.
I mean, it's not the same, but I believe the poster above has a point. polyps usually aren't cancer, and don't have much malignant potential.
Still it's a good thing you're on top of it.

[hopeful927]

But how can I trust that the doctor knows it is a polyp and not a tumour or something else?

[Catherine S]

Why would you not trust the hospital doctor? They see this every day. He wouldn't have said it's a polyp if it was a tumour, they ought to know the difference between the two.

ISB x

[hopeful927]

You are right. The problem is that I don't trust the doctor. I just always so
Pessimistic about thinking he must have missed something, it is probably cancer. I get so tired of this I just don't feel like continuing on sometimes. My eyes are puffy, I've ignored my husband and kids today, I haven't eaten anything and all I've been doing is taking my lorazepams and sitting in front of the tv crying.

[GlassPinata]

Well, they will take it out and biopsy it. They'll send it to a lab for evaluation. And then they'll know. It is someone's job to evaluate this specific thing.
Trust the doctors. They see a lot of this, and they know what they are doing.
You will be okay.