I'm 36, with two children, one aged 3 and one aged 11 months. When I was pregnant with my youngest, in March 2021, a 4cm cyst was found on my left ovary and I was told it's probably nothing, just follow it up later. After my son was born I chased up the cyst with the GP, and they booked me in for a TV Ultrasound in January 2022, I was told the cyst was still there, and a similar size, I was referred to gynaecology and put on a waiting list. To ease my worrying the GP gave me a CA125 blood test, and they told me it came back normal. August 2022 I move to a different county, so have to go through a new GP to be referred to gynaecology again, they performed the CA125 blood test and it came back as elevated, so I was fast-tracked to gynaecology. I've had another ultrasound, this one shows a complex cyst that's 5.6cm. The gynaecologist on the phone told me that the cyst had "worrying characteristics" and that I needed an MRI scan so they can look at it in more detail. When I said I was worried about cancer, he avoided commenting, but asked what I did for a living, and who I lived with. When I said I lived with my husband, he said, "so there's support at home?". I just can't stop thinking that it's cancer. I almost feel like I've already been told it's cancer, mentally, I feel like I'm dying already and I won't see my children grow up. I feel like the DR only asked me if there's support at home because I'm going to need it.
My mum died from lung cancer when she was 47. Within 12 months of diagnosis, she was dead, and I feel like the same will happen to me.
Am I looking to much into what the DR might have meant when he asked me that? The constant waiting for appointments and results is just unbearable.