I have the same thing but I am going to disagree with everyone else. Dr. Google is your friend. I won't sugar coat it... doctors are incompetent and don't care if you get cancer or not. It is insane to stick your head in the sand and not look everything up. Yes, it might not be what you thought but after a while I think you can learn to figure out what symptoms you must have that differentiate serious from not.
With regard to cancer, there is something you can to do avoid it. Vitamin D. If you take sufficient vitamin d it has been shown to have a preventative effect. In addition it can slow cancer. This keeps me calm about cancer.
It is shocking but the truth is that if you don't live a risky life, risky sex, obesity, smoking, drugs... your chances of cancer and many different things are greatly reduced. Dr. Google doesn't usually note such things but if you really look it up... you can find it.
I engage in Gorilla tactics with my doctor. I make an excuse to go in every 6 months. I lie to get the tests that I want and if she sends me to a specialist and they don't have anything available for a while.. I just keep calling daily until they get sick of me and "fit me in". I sometimes also go to another doctor (that my primary care) knows nothing about if they have an early appointment and then if I don't get the answer I want go to the later one. I have been known to go to the ER just because my doctor didn't have anything early.
F** um.. it is my life and body. I only get one.
There are also services that allow you to get your own blood tests (you do have to pay for them yourself) but they aren't too expensive and it can put your mind at ease.
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