Hi and thank you for your previous comments. I’ve woken today and my right arm definately aches (I previously thought I’d slept on it funny). I think my under arm is tender and a bit swollen too or is it? I think maybe I’m just being a complete baby, I can’t stop crying and that in turn makes me feel like a weak idiot. Especially when you look at what other people on here are coping with. So maybe its just my glands? I’m on my own, no partner and my son is 8 if it happens how will we manage … just need to get a grip. Next tuesday (mammogram) monday 30th for consultant seems so far away.
This is a nightmare:(
Hi Foxy.
You sound so upset. Have you been referred for your initial consultation? or is this your 1st?
I don’t think you should be feeling so upset, alone. Have you any support?
Have you spoken to anyone on the helpline here? I understand they can be really wonderful when things feel hard.
Keep posting to the other women on here, they have helped me enourmously at my darkest times.
Let us know how you are doing.
WS
Dear Foxy
As wintersocks mentioned, please do consider giving our Helpline a call. They are open till 5.00pm on weekdays (from 9.00am) and 9-2 on Saturdays. They can offer you information and support and calls are free and confidential.
Take care
Very best wishes
Janet
BCC Facilitator
Hi thank you for kind words, feel very flat like you’ve all said the waiting is the worse thing and after reading lots of posts here I called the consultants secretary who said that he would look at the mammogram and decide what would be next but if further tests were needed I’d probably have to go back and then wait for results.
So I sit here and say that hopefully I will be clear and no tests will be required. But I still have lump(s) my breast aches (is that good or bad?)Time has never gone so slowly. Can’t seem to stop fretting. I’m a worrier by nature …great! Plus my twin daughters(18) know as we are close and I’m trying not to worry them and not doing a great job. Could do with a big hug. Best friend is on holiday lol! The stupid thing is I will deal with it if its bad I know … Sorry to drivle on thanks if you’ve read this.
Foxy x
Oh Foxy,
You’re really going through the wringer aren’t you?
Do you think your aches and pains are worse at night? I have a large fat necrosis area, which is really large at night and it makes it uncomfortable to sleep, very tender…
I have just written to you on another thread, depending on the findings on your mmg, like mine, nothing was picked up, which was due to the density in my breasts, I then had an ultra sound where my lump was picked up, which then determined a biopsy…
Unfortunately, there is a myth that clinics do things quickely if there is a problem, whatever the findings, it does involve a degree of waiting, although the radiologist was good with me, she and then he did tell me what they thought, they did engage in conversation with me, which was good and reassuring.
Hi there Sommer,
Thanks for message …its just there I think its bigger but that might be my imagination and I think that side is lower again could be my perception.
My mammogram is Tuesday but I’ve convinced myself that I’m really not going to know anything til consultant on 30th and even then.
Really appreciate the messages, its weird its just there all the time and very hard I’m so aware of it crazy eh.
Have a good day x
Hi Foxy
I don’t think you will know anything until you see the consultant, although you could ask for the BCN number to talk to them, your results may well be back in, before you see him. I called them many times, and they would read my results to me over the phone.
When we don’t know, it is always worse, the waiting, I refused to have a biopsy on a Friday, knowing I would have to wait all weekend for the results, so when they asked me to have one, I booked in for the next working day, right little sod I am, I already had one weekend with my FNA to wait and that drove me insane, then it came back inconclusive, so I had to do another round of appointments, it was so much waiting.
Hi Sommer,
So can I call someone and ask for my results of the mammogram? Who do I call? How are you? I really appreciate all your messages thank you so much xx
Hi Foxy,
I would ask for the breast care nurse, attached to the clinic. I got my mmg results on the day, which were all clear, they picked up nothing! I was at a one stop shop, however, for my FNA results, I did get those from the breast care nurse, this was at my local clinic. Ask for the number of the BCN… They should have them at a breast clinic, usually based in the hospital. I was told about them, I was given a number to call. You might be able to find it on your hospital website.