Hi everyone,
So last year I started having really weird symptoms with my stomach and bowels-heartburn, diarrhea, overall not feeling well.
Never lost weight though-just kept gaining if anything, lol.
My GI doctor told me from the start she thought it was IBS, I was always worried it was either colon cancer or stomach cancer. She did a colonoscopy, endoscopy, and CT scan of my GI and said it's IBS- she did find an innocent polyp in both my colon and stomach and gastritis in my tummy though ,which she said it was not anything to worry about.
I'm not scared of colon cancer anymore but I am afraid it's stomach cancer- I went to see her yesterday and told her about my indigestion/heartburn but forgot to tell her about my tummy pain. I asked her if she thought stomach cancer would have happened within my last endoscopy (7 months ago) she said no... I asked her if she could please do another endoscopy just to be sure and she said absolutely not.
UGH! I feel like most people would be happy with that kind of response-like oh, she's not worried, cool-but I am scared that she missed something the first time and I didn't want to tell her that... I've read stories online about people getting missed things on endoscopies and they make it seem like it's more common than I thought.
I don't know if I should get a second opinion or not or what I should do.. been going to therapy for my anxiety but I feel like it only helps sometimes... I don't know how to let go of this... I feel like I really have it this time and she's not listening