I was doing so well but got appointment for bone and CT scan and now convnced it has spread. I’ve had a niggling discomfort in the liver region for a few months now, way before I was diagnosed in Sept (Grade 3, stage 2 ductal, in one lymph node) I’ve had WLE without too much difficulty, except for a seroma in my armpit, which is annoying. I feel like I did when waiting for results and I just hate this. I know that I just have to get on with it and that no one can tell me it will be ok, cos it might not be! Doesn’t help that I watched ‘my breasts could kill me’ last night. I’ve looked at the posts about secondary BC and they are both reassuring and terrifying! Spoke to BCN today who also told me that secondaries cannot be cured but can be treated. Not suprisingly, don’t feel reassured!
If it helps at all most of us with liver mets can’t feel them at all and only know we have them because of scans - discomfort in that area may well be something completely different.
It is only natural to get anxious when scans are booked but the chances of you having mets are very small so try to distract yourself while you wait!
I know I’m being daft and am usually such a positive person! Feeling very sorry for myself today. Had felt I was getting my life back after divorcing my adulterous husband (took 2 years to do) and now having met a wonderful man. Maybe I did something bad in a past life!
Yup Julia, we all feel like that from time to time, but as Fiona says the chances of mets are probably remote. I certainly fell the wrong side of very good statistics, so I certainly wasn’t worried about recurrence or mets at all, and yet both happened. So I do know that however reassured you are, sometimes we just are worried. I am now many many scans down the road, and i try not to think about the results at all - difficult to do and not always achieveable, but it is certainly the best way through. So as Fiona says if you can distract yourself at leaast some of the time, then do.