Insurance with Aviva

Hello SKR

Welcome to the Thyroid group. 

I am sorry to hear that you have been having some testing and are now having to have some surgery. It sounds like things have moved quickly for you. 

I am one of the Community Champions and while we can offer you support, we are not medically trained so I can not unfortunately help with working out what the medical information above means. 

You could give the Support Line a call and ask one of the nurses. This would be the quickest way.

We also have an ask the expert section that you are welcome to use. I will pop a link below.

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I hope that your surgery goes well this week and wish you well for your recovery. 

In the meantime, if there is anything you need, then please do ask.

Jane

To be fair, it's not always possible to know before surgery if the lump is cancerous.

Some times simply can't be diagnosed without first removing the whole thyroid.

What did your insurers want to know? Is it your medical insurance (who should pay regardless of whether it's cancer or not) or are you talking about some kind of Critical Illness Cover?

Hello thank you so much for replying 

it’s relating to life insurance and critical illness cover if these diagnostics are covered in terms of a payout whilst I’m off work 

Thank you 

I feel really worried 

how often after two FNAC and scans with the outcomes I’ve had do need to worried

i I don’t want to google but the reports worry me 

Unfortunately, I wouldn't expect any insurer to pay out without a full pathology report on what you've got. 

A lot of people in the many years I've been on this site have successfully claimed but it's not a type of insurance I ever had.

Please don't go googling trying to understand the technical stuff in your first post. Unless you are medically qualified - and an expert in thyroid - they will confuse you and you may worry unnecessarily.

I had my surgery without knowing if it was cancer. BUT my lump was so big that my doctor said cancer or not, it was going to squish my windpipe if it didn't come out.

There's no point at all trying to work out the odds of this being cancer.  Unfortunately, you'll just have to wait.

But please remember that there are lots of us here who have had thyroid cancer and most of us are doing very well, even many years later. 

You are so kind

I have refrained from googling But I’ve always worked in clinical governance so I knew a bit but not enough from what I was taught at uni doing biochem and pharmacology. I’m not in control and the wait is going to scare me…