Hi, I guess I’m looking for some reassurance. I’ve not had the best of experiences recently and it has knocked my faith in the system. So a little background of me, in May this year I had to have emergency spinal surgery having developed cauda equina syndrome and was facing potentially becoming paralysed. There were issues re my diagnosis and a delay. My operation was a success, and I am not paralysed. Although have been left with nerve damage and pain.

I recently had an mri of my lumbar spine due to new pain and concerns about a potential re-herniation. The mri came back all good for my spine. However a bomb was then dropped when they confirmed there was an incidental finding. The only information I have is I have a large cyst on my left ovary. No more information. 

I booked an appointment with my gp, who stated he would complete an urgent referral. Through the nhs app I then noticed that there were 2 forms for the referral and 1 of them was marked routine. I then checked the referral date and it was for the beginning of January. I freaked out and contacted my gp surgery and explained, they then did something and the date was changed to the beginning of December. I felt much better. 

I was then advised to arrange  ca125 blood test by my work occupational health dept. So I booked in with the gp again and he gave me the relevant form, I’m booked to have the test tomorrow.

I then checked the app again hoping it would have some update that would say this is all a big mistake, no such luck and actually found the referral date has been pushed back to Jan again. I then had a complete meltdown and freaked out that this may well be an admin error and I don’t want to wait nearly 2 months to be seen, especially if it is worse case scenario.

The gp surgery has tried to reassure me that should my blood test results come back high then the referral date may be brought forward. I guess what I want to know is should I request another review into my referral? Or am I overreacting? 

I’m exhausted and can’t stop worrying.