How important are medical labels?

If you sense, at a gut level, that there are things "wrong" with your body, is it okay to just work towards health and NOT get a medical diagnosis?

For instance, I heard Chopra on a tape say one women's family asked him NOT to tell the patient she had cancer, because the diagnosis alone would kill her. So she wasn't told, (probably not allowed in today's society) and she recovered completly...(it's a great story),

I get flack sometimes, and have self doubts. I know there is 'stuff' wrong in mostly the organs of my body--probably some pancreas stuff, spleen stuff, and to be honest, something is wrong with my uteras. (could be minor--my reflexology point on the heal that is the uterus went NUTs a couple of days ago, and there is some crunchy/tense feeling where I think it is....I haven't really wanted to know too much... This is all just 'gut' feelings, and minor pain; everyone in a while, pain pain...but nothing I can't handle. I've birthed 5 children....I can handle pain....especially if "the only way out is through".

But I DISLIKE labels, and my nickname as a child was W.W.: worry wart. So, I'm not going for many of the 'women' tests I'm expected to get, and haven't got them for over 12 years.

I'm not trying to stir controversy, I'm just asking .....in some cases is it okcay NOT to get the blood work, the label, etc? Especially if you have a 'split' household--half being the medical model, and less than half the alternative? Especially in this day where your own wishes could be overridden?

Also: it has occured to me I could "use" a label to attempt to control my spouse--it would be 'easier' for him to deal with a label (oh, she has m.s. I have to be nice to her, or lupus, or fibromyalgia, or wow, uterine fibroids, or cancer of the pancreas....yea, but I'd be trying to MAKE him be considerate, and I don't want want his caring and compassion because he SHOULD be....does this make sense to anyone besides myself....that's sometimes where the 'self-doubts' or devils advocate comes in...and I don't want to go that way...

Also, I think it isn't ALL labels I dislike...just ones I consider non-productive. I can't wait till I believe, with all my heart, that I AM WONDERFUL!