Hello all,
New here - in fact, I don't think I've ever posted on a forum before in my life! But here I am - it's a lonely waiting game so I thought I might pop on and say hi.
I went to the doctor in October 2024 with a few symptoms which I thought were possibly early menopause (turning 40 soon). I've been experiencing night sweats, muscle and joint pain, a pain in my side and fatigue mostly.
The doctor ordered some bloods and did a urine sample. I ended up doing 4 urine samples as 2 of them showed haematuria and then 2 didn't. The doctor just said the first two were probably contaminated and everything fine but as i had some pain in my side she ordered an abdominal ultrasound anyway. My bloods came back normal apart from very low iron.
Finally went for an ultrasound on 7th Jan and the results to this came up the very next day on my Patients Know Best app. I opened them and saw that they had found a 2cm solid organ tumour on my right kidney. The results said CT with contrast advised but that they suspect this is just a hypertrophied column of bertin. (I had to Google this as I didn't know what it is and it turns out this is something you have from birth and is fairly common). However, I had had an ultrasound scan on my kidneys 5 years ago for something else and nothing about a column of bertin flagged up back then - I went back to my old notes to check and it said both kidneys appear normal with no noted lesions etc.
So obviously, my mind then went in to overdrive! So, I tried to call my GP to discuss these results and the receptionist said my results weren't back yet (even though I could see them on my screen). She then said it was a 6 week wait for an appointment. Meanwhile, my symptoms seemed to get worse so after two weeks I started phoning the GP to try and get an appointment. Around a week later, a doctor eventually phoned me - and still hadn't looked at my US results. She only looked at them there and then over the phone because I asked about them. She told me it all sounds like nothing to worry about and then said my symptoms were most likely due to stress! She started asking me how many children I have and about my job and then asked if I was depressed?! I'm not depressed and I wasn't stressed at all until I got these results. At this point I felt completely confused and dismissed. She then said she would order me a CT scan with contrast but there was no urgency about it.
I just had the CT scan this week and now I guess it is another long waiting game for the results! I'm wondering how long people are currently waiting for their results? Is it normal to be dismissed by a GP like this?
I don't know if I'm overreacting about all this or not but my mental health which was totally fine before all of this is declining with all the waiting and I feel like I don't have much faith in my GP or the NHS right now. I'm now not sleeping very well either.
Anyway, apologies for ranting - even if nobody replies I think it just feels a bit better to write it out! 
If you got this far, thanks for listening!
