Hi Cloudy

There are lots of benign lesions / tumours that can be 'incidental' findings on scans, so try not to worry yourself sick whilst you are waiting.

I was in your situation in May of this year, I had an ultrasound of my liver due to one slightly raised liver enzyme.  Everyone including my gp, did not expect anything to be found, it was merely a box ticking exercise to say that everything had been checked.  A couple of days later, I received an urgent call from my gp's surgery wanting to see me that morning, a large tumour had been found on my liver, I was absolutely terrified!  Fast forward through urgent ct scan, urgent mri scan and meeting liver specialist, they still could not tell from the scans whether it was benign or cancerous, but because of the size of it, even if it was benign it had to be removed, so I was scheduled for surgery which took place in early August.  I had to wait for 9 weeks for the histology results, but when they finally came back it was benign.

Yes, it was a long and worrying time.  At the start I was terrified that I would die, not so much for me, but for my dad (he is 85 and has already lost my sister and my mum to cancer, I am literally all he has got left!).  However, after the first week of worrying so much that I was literally being sick and not sleeping, I realised that I had to change my thinking and everytime that my thoughts started to go to a dark place, I would try to distract myself.  I kept telling myself that until someone told me differently, I would believe it was benign.  Yes, I could well have been wrong, but it got me through the months with my sanity intact.  Worry, when you know for sure that there is something to worry about, that is what my mum used to tell me.

I hope that you get answers quickly and that it turns out to be harmless.

Best wishes

Annie

Annie thank you so much, I am so glad you story turned out to be a happy one. I cannot believe you had to wait from may until only some weeks ago to know you were ok. That feels like an incredibly long and worrying wait. 
I know that I should only worry when I have something to worry about, I think being told by a physio (although so appreciated that she did) then being left with no one to ask any questions of has been awful. I don’t even know which side of my body it’s on. Keeping everything crossed that I too will have a positive report in the not too distant future. Thank you for replying.