Feel like a fraud - what should my next move be?

[Guttedme]

Hi,

I’m in a state of shock. Everyone has been really lovely at the West Suffolk hospital today I’ve just been though a ga for sorting an apparent fibroid and had a coil fitted, it isn’t bad except low level period pain but I’m pretty angry at myself risking infection for it.

I kind of learnt a lesson as about 15 minutes before going down main consultant comes around saying I don’t think this is a fibroid and I’m just kicking myself I didn’t press him to ask about perimenopause.

On return from surgery I’m informed they found neither fibroid or polyp and nothing looked untoward (which is the best of news) and it sounds like they didn’t even take a biopsy. How does this work if you are Hpv positive? I’ve just been given one of those leaflets for Patient initiated follow up.

Should I keep a diary if things don’t improve under the coil and go back to the gp?
I’m just finding my parents so difficult and feel like a fraud seeing one lady crying because she didn’t have her op as planned.

You're not responsible for scheduling and they were sufficiently concerned to offer you the appointment to check. You wouldn't know it is not a fibroid/polyp if they hadn't looked. Nothing fraudulent

Thanks to the shitty Tories, we are now beaten down as a society, reduced to the point of feeling ashamed/grovelling with thankfulness for seeking even basic medical help. You deserved to have the operation, you deserve to take up time and resources, we are a first world country and we deserve a functional NHS.

Please don't feel guilty, it is maybe a strange way of processing the relief, but also not being left with solid answers for what it could be?

Thank you for the kindness. They discharged me with a letter saying they did a biopsy so I’m so confused as that is not what a physical doctor on ward said but I know in the recovery room I was treated for mild diabetic hypoglycaemia and the whole procedure took a good 40 or 50 minutes and I wasn’t sleepy when I got back to ward. The nurse gave me the letter along with sexual precaution advice.

I’m just going to tell myself mentally they did something and keep positive about the coil.

The discharge letter reports the fibroid as what was the submucous type - the type most easily discharged by the body. Someone said to try and explore andometriosis but someone at work said endometriosis is hard to be treated/fobbed off.