For doctors to have hidden this from me?

But you did engage.

My intention is this: I choose not to engage with threads where the OP has health anxiety, because it's pointless. So it's a screening tool.

Thank you all
Let me get this clear to all the posters calling me a hypochondriac I am certainly not that but if I was that doesn't mean people could be horrible
I have actual symptoms actual physical and nurological symptoms
The cysts in 2018 I was never told about or 'reassured as i was never told I found it myself when I decided to get my medical records to advocate for myself as no one is listening as like you all are putting it down to stress
Not everything is health anxiety if I didn't have these symptoms I wouldn't be worried about health. The pineal gland cysts one I was told over the phone by my GP and it was me that pushed to see a nurologist which took a whole year to get the appointment of which I was told I could have ADHD which needs assessing for and I'm not disputing this as she is the professional here however it does not explain my actual physical issues ( for example the excessive water retention in my legs plus my joint pain which makes me struggle getting pants on)
I've been dismissed
Plus the constant folate deficiency which is being blames on diet when my diet isn't a problem
The cyst that was on my sinus would actually explain my constant sinus issues plus the fact my left ear is constantly blocked and I can't hear out of it I have not been able to hear out of it for weeks
It's only ever my left ear never the right
I think that cyst was relative to tell me. I have constant mouth ulcers as well
I'm due to see the mental health practioner in the GP surgery in the coming weeks not sure what will happen in that but once I've gone through that route and I still have symptoms there will be nothing more to dismissed will there
And by the way pineal gland cysts can cause symptoms they mess with your melotonin production which then has a massive impact on the rest of your body but I guess a patient can't possibly do her own research

If there was, you sure as fuck wouldn't diagnose it.

You're right, the OP probably does have something terribly wrong with her 😕

Nay, I'm not.

I wonder what some posters here would have said if I posted here some years back when my then 2 year old had an MRI and was given the all clear. He had a strange head shake, and visual symptoms. Instead of just not worrying about it, I continued worrying & shopped him round to a number of different neurologists with different neuroradiological teams & also a neuroopthalmologist, showing them the scan...
It was only the last neurologist, a full year after the original MRI, whose radiologist spotted that something was amiss with DS's pituitary gland. A follow up MRI revealed a cystic tumour there. Surgery and radiation followed.
Clearly this is a different case... in ours the original report was incorrect & many drs chose to just take it as a given that it was correct.

I think it's patronising to withhold information from a patient. And Drs can be wrong too.

You wouldn't be "a rose by any other name" by any chance would you?

Are you an incompetent ‘medical professional’ by any chance? 😊❤️

Thank you, I guess? Very helpful contribution! ❤️☺️

Horror stories such as yours are very helpful to health anxiety sufferers ☺️❤️

There are a number of posters on MN who have a combination if "dog with a bone" syndrome, and "last worditis", and you my friend appear to be one of them.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, to be sure, and I admit to having my moments where I've kept engaging despite futility, but honestly I don't get the obsessive need to shout down or come back at every single post that offers a response or anecdote at odds to your own position. Always comes with a side order of superiority, passive aggression or accusations of intent to cause harm, or that the poster is too ignorant to see the error of their ways.

Conversation flows, and what happens is you get an obsessive dam builder that obstructs that flow and no-one learns anything and no progression is made.

Don’t blame them tbh, the way this thread has gone.

OP is clearly not returning 🤷‍♀️

I think you have escalated an incidental finding to the cause of your symptoms and assumed a deliberate with holding of information and 'dismissal'

Loads of stuff shows up on scans which are incidental, insignificant and asymptomatic and not a problem. If Dr's spent their lives describing all the incidental, asymptomatic insignificant findings it would make identifying the significant issues a problem. They'd then spend ages reassuring patients it's a normal observation (in this case 13% of posters on here would have same finding on a scan). Many patients then focus on the normal incidental finding and tell everyone they have a lump, mass, shadow and worry they have a serious issue without ever being reassured. They then attribute every symptom to that and start to notice more symptoms they expect to have. Its unhelpful. Tbh it's best not to know!

So I've been ill for several years, symptoms have worsened since last year year
One of my symptoms is a facial spasm where my brain feels like it's squeezing and then my mouth goes to the side for a few seconds it's been worrying me
So I had an mri in 2018 they told me everything was fine and then had another mri in 2024 I was told i have an pineal gland cyst which is incidental
So i requested my medical records and on my 2018 mri report it said I have a small retention cyst in my right maxillary sinus ( this would explain why I've had so many sinus issues and now it could explain the facial issues as well) but they didn't tell me about it??
Now I've suddenly developed a pineal gland cysts but no mention of the right maxillary cyst on on my recent mri scan?? Did it just disappear?
I don't understand why I'm getting 'incidentental' cysts at random like this and doctors are not concerned about this ?
My folate is low again with no explanation ? I constantly drained and having horrible nurological symptoms
Am I being unreasonable to be dismissed like this ??

Oh thank goodness the ' Health anxiety cavalry have arrived!

Are you always so dismissive?