Hi everyone, hope everyone is doing ok.
I’m 43 and was diagnosed with a fibroid 3.5 years ago due to heavy bleeding. I then had a more a coil in. March 2020 I had a bleed so had a scan and the fibroid had grown and they said I could have a hysterectomy but as I had no other symptoms of the fibroid and they said the hysterectomy would give me more problems I decided against it and forgot about the fibroid. Since March this year my anxiety has been awful and i started prodding my tummy, anyway this freaked me out and I ended up at the GP who sent for a scan to reassure me that it was just my fibroid. In the next 6 weeks my anxiety got worse and I had a private scan that confirmed the fibroid was still there and that was what I was feeling which again freaked me out, I had the nhs scan in June and again this confirmed it was my fibroid, the sonographer was amazing with me after I had a meltdown over it, he showed me exactly where the penduculated fibroid was where it joined my uterus etc and talked me through it all and I relaxed a little. I then asked my gap to refer me to gynae as I want a hysterectomy which she did.
I saw my consultant 3.5 weeks ago who has said she can feel a large fibroid, agreed to hysterectomy and started me on GNRH therapy to shrink the fibroid and told me she would send me for an MRI to see where it’s sitting in my pelvis. I had my scan this week 3.5 week after seeing her and I’ve just gone into meltdown again, I couldn’t sign the form at mri as I was shaking that much. I feel it’s more than a fibroid and thinking endometrial or ovarian cancer.
Surely my consultant wouldn’t start me on fibroid treatment if she didn’t think it was a fibroid? Surely I would’ve had the scan quicker than 3.5 weeks if she thought it was something else
I’m a mess and don’t know what to do