Should I cancel?

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I went to the doctors about a month ago with some small lumps in my boob. Like bits of gravel and one bigger one that isn't gravel like.

Anyway... my sister works at a doctors and she's spoken to GPs and convinced me that I am wasting the breast clinics time because there's going to be nothing wrong with me and it's a cyst/fibroadenoma.

My appointment has already been cancelled twice due to staff shortage, I was meant to go last Tuesday, then they changed it to last Friday and now it's this week. I'm thinking could it because the universe telling me 'don't go'?...

I'm 49.

Go!!!!!

Hope to God it's fuck all, but now I think you owe it to your sister to make sure it's fuck all because how would she feel if you cancelled and it turned out it wasn't...?

When it comes to such matters, you do not rely on third hand information or signs from the universe. Get checked out and if this appointment is cancelled, get another one.

Absolutely get it checked

I can’t believe your sister works in the medical field and is actively discouraging you from going.

This . Very poor advice from your sister

Of course you go

And never discuss your medical issues with your sister again

Shockingly bad advice

It is never ever a waste of time op.

What the actual fuck?
ignore your sister!
attend the appointment.
dont let them cancel again!
let’s hope it is a false alarm, but
how could she live with her self if it turns out these bits of gravel are concerning and she had encouraged you to ignore them!

Your sister is being an u supportive arse and anyone choosing to diagnose you second hand off what she is saying isn't a dr I'd ever want to soo

The trouble with with some people who work in surgeries is that they think they have more medical knowledge than anyone else.

On what planet do breast lumps not need checking out?? She is not on your side.

Absolutely go and don’t even discuss with your sister.

Agreed!

So what if she spoke to gps she's not a bloody Doctor and these gps have not seen you so they too don't know if it's serious or not. Why on earth would you listen to her and not go to the appointment!

I've had breast cancer and say go! What if you take your medically unqualified sister's advice and you do have cancer? GPs are also not experts in breast lumps. My GP would refer a patient with a breast lump/anomaly 100% of the time 'to be on the safe side'. Too dangerous not to.

Not all breast cancers are one, neat lump. Some are inflammation. Some are pock marks. Some are several small, grain of rice sized pieces in the breast. Some are discharge from a nipple. There is no one, definitive breast cancer.

Of course you must go OP. Your sister has given you terrible advice.
Don't put it off. Please get checked out ASAP.

Please go. Your sister's reasoning makes no sense. The whole point is to rule out anything more worrying and say 'its a cyst/ fibroadenoma'. You don't not go be checked because that's the likelihood. It sounds like she's misunderstood advice.

Also it's helpful to have a baseline of any benign lumps and bumps recorded in case anything new appears later. Hopefully it's nothing serious but please go.

Good Lord, of course you should go. WTH.

I hope your sister doesn’t say this to patients when they phone up looking for an appt.

So - your GP has referred you to the breast clinic based on a consult with you.

But yet various GPs your sister works with can say with certainty it's nothing to worry about based on your sister discussing your confidential medical information with the,?

Yep - you go. You also don't discuss anything personal with your sister again.

Your sister is a risk to others. I hope she doesn’t give out this advice regularly. I’m a nurse and I say absolutely you NEED to go.

It wouldn't surprise me. Receptionist at my old GP surgery told me having headaches for weeks on end wasn't urgent and could wait a few weeks/months for a GP apt if it took that long and I just needed to be patient.

Went through 111 as advised to then be called into GP surgery to be referred to neurology as my headaches need checking out by a specialist.

You aren't wasting anyone's time. They would prefer you to go regardless.

Please go

Absolutely do not cancel the appointment.
I was 42 when I was diagnosed and when the GP investigated it initially she thought it was a pea sized cyst but wanted it checking.
She was completely right to refer me as it was luckily stage one BC but 5cm x 5cm behind my nipple. Being stage one it was treatable, however, it was an aggressive form so could have grown much bigger and been harder to treat very quickly.
It's also worth getting checked just so that you know for sure that it isn't cancerous.

Please go.
Not comparable but I once had a lump on my foot. A week before the ultrasound appointment it had disappeared. I was considering cancelling, but ended up going and the Sonographer still checked it and just said it’s much better this way than them having to poke it and that it was right to still come. If that wasn’t considered a wasted appointment then yours most definitely isn’t!

OP the only thing the universe is telling you based on your urgent referrals being cancelled is that the NHS is chronically underfunded and life saving services are creaking under the strain. You should be seen within two weeks for a breast lump referral.
Please don't let your sister or your own fears put you off attending the appointment.