Hopefully this isn’t breaking rules. Yes it is a veiled attempt at advice because I’ve been hemming and hawing. But the question can be answered purely as is. There are obviously pros and cons so I’d like to know how you all feel.

Thank you.

  • Zarobi@aussie.zone
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    The way I always calculate doing any medical thing is a asking myself questions. My health is weird and complicated, and often it’s nothing and I just go home, but sometimes it’s something and I’m glad I went.

    Don’t answer these if you don’t want to, just write it in a notebook.

    • What conditions are they checking for, specifically?
      • Look them up online.
      • What are the symptoms?
      • Do you have any of them?
    • Are these conditions urgent or dangerous?
    • What happens if you do have them and ignore them?
      • Can you monitor them at home and reliably detect if they’re worsening?
    • Is there an actual treatment? Does a diagnosis change your life in any way or would it just be interesting?

    Just look at your answers the next day and ask yourself if someone else told you this, what would you recommend to them? Forget the cost or “wasting resources”; actually look at what you wrote as if it’s worth serious consideration. You deserve care.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldOP
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      Well essentially I had a bit of an odd biopsy result and one of the possibilities can be a strange hormone effect. I wanted a second opinion on the biopsy to make sure it was benign. I also recently had some blood hormone testing which doesn’t seem to find anything too odd outside of the possibly of way earlier menopause than normal. The second opinion was benign which made me happy. But then the doctor suggested an MRI to have a better look at my adrenal glands (which are also producers of hormones) and ovaries. I think because she noticed that I have excess hair on my face and body. This can also be due to a hormonal effect, but this particular hormone wasn’t tested and would not have effected the biopsy.