Originally Posted by
axolotl
100% familiar. Anxiety always holds on to any cracks of doubt. A non-anxious person would just think if a doc isn't worried, they shouldn't be. But we hang on to the tiniest possibilities. "If it gets worse come back" is basically doctor speak for "goodbye", but our anxiety sees that as a tiny chink of doubt to worry about.
If a GP had the tiniest of inklings it could be nasty you'd be referred very quickly. I get that too, the worry you've missed a bit or described something wrong, bit don't forget doctors are used to dealing with people way less communicative and eloquent than we are.
Good she spotted the anxiety - not all GPs would have or would have fobbed you off with leaflets - and good luck going forward with that.