To want to scream because my GP's are ignorant and dismissive bastards!

[Peppatina]

To avoid any dripfeed:

Ds is seven weeks old. I've been diagnosed with PND which I feel is why I'm being ignored re: ds's health.

A week and a half ago I noticed ds was getting a third lump appear and disappear in his scrotum. Obviously knew it was normal so made an appointment.

The lump was gone when we first got there. The first gp I saw made me feel like I was imagining things. She just kept saying 'well there's nothing there' and didn't explain to me what it could be.

The lump kept appearing and disappearing and I wasn't happy but luckily had his six week check booked a few days later so brought it up with that (different) GP. I even took photos of the big and extremely noticeable lump to show her as it had disappeared again when I got to GP's.

She insisted it was his testicle. I insisted it wasn't as I had checked and they were both present near the bottom and this lump kept appearing high above them. Even though I was in tears telling her it WASNT his testicle and please could she just give us an idea of what it could be she completely dismissed me and asked if it was my anxiety .

I sat at home watching this lump pop up and down. So I videoed it, clearly showing where the two testicles were and that this lump was most definitely not one.

Asked for a third different doctor at the surgery and showed him the pictures and video. Luckily the lump showed up while he was examining him!

He said it could be a hydrocele and that it was nothing to worry about.

Until he called us back after the appointment yesterday and said he'd done some looking up and it might be a 'communicating hydrocele' which could lead to a hernia and to keep an eye on him because if the rare chance it could cause problems. He asked if the lump was any firmer, it was. He says if ds gets distressed make another appointment.

AIBU to think it's a good job I didn't stop pestering them and that if they hadn't been so dismissive in the first place I could have had a week and a half of not shitting myself or feeling crazy!

You'd also be slammed as a GP if you have a mother in tears bringing in a child with a completely normal examination at the time and NOT asking whether it could be their anxiety...
Its a shame they weren't able to give you a list of things it could possibly be if you feel that would have helped but TBH without being able to find anything in examination and just from your history it would be hard to give any information which wouldn't be pure guesswork and quite possibly make you even more anxious.

My GPs have never made me feel this way so YANBU. It does piss me off when concerns are dismissed because you're a new mum or have anxiety issues. Your baby is still allowed to be poorly under those circumstances! The right thing to do as Beau suggests would have been for the GP to suggest what it might be and to keep an eye out for signs of xyz which you did end up doing but only because of Dr Google.

Thus sounds horrible for you and ds op, my ds had a hydrocele picked up on his 6 week check by my gp he was reffered to a peadiactric urology surgeon by the time the appointment came round 6 weeks later it had disapeared but we were told by the gp if it got bigger or looked red or he seemed in pain to go straight to a&e if possible I'd think about changing gps.

Hi Peppatina,

Ask your GP to refer you to a specialist, i.e. a surgical clinic. This sounds like it could be a hernia.

Best of luck!