Urgent gastroscopy

I am having worrying symptoms and one of them is my voice has changed . 
my appointment with the gp was a phone appointment who referred me to upper Gi . 
mot was a quick process and the consultant appointment was also a phone appointment .

She said she didn't want to scare me but prepare me that they will be looking for cancer and my paper work says biopsies . 
it is on the 17 th . 
Because of my voice and also glands in the neck I'm worried that it is more my Larinx . 
Does anybody know if having a gastroscopy will show this . 
Also can you have changed in your voice with oesophages cancer ? 
Thankyou 

  • Hi,

    Apart from the nurses, none of us are qualified to reply to your question directly. Your symptoms could be caused by a lot of things, including but not limited to some sort of cancer. Telling you not to worry would be pointless and patronising. 

    That said - if you Google your symptoms (I know you shouldn’t but everyone does) you are likely to come up with this link 

    www.nhs.uk/.../

    Like I said, this is just one of the things it might be. The endoscopy itself probably won’t give a definitive diagnosis but any biopsies and/or follow up scans probably will.

     

    Good luck!

    Dave

  • Thankyou for replying . 
    I have all the normal symptoms of oesophages cancer but I've read the oesophages infection too . 
    They treated me for infection of the oesophages and also lanzaroprazole too . 
    Both have not worked . 

    ive read other people's stories but can't find anything about the voice changing ??

    Thankyou

  • Also I didn't ring the doctor for a good few months because I'm shielding my disabled daughter from Covid . 
    I put it off because I didn't want to bring Covid into the house