I found a lump just over 3 weeks ago. Had a mammogram, scan and biopsy 10 days ago and today went for my results.
Think I’ve already forgotten some of what I was told… but was something to do with my cancer being effected by oestrogen and will have to take a tablet each day for 5 years after the lump is removed. The scan showed my lymph nodes were ok but the surgeon said she wants to remove 2 at the time of my lumpectomy…I can’t quite remember the reason for needing this done… my mind’s in a bit of a haze at the moment .
hi Daisy,
It’s good that the scan showed the nodes are clear, however, to confirm this, nodes are routinely removed & microscopically examined to see if any rogue cells have gone astray.
It sounds like your bc is oestrogen positive (er+) which means the bc is stimulated by this hormone, therefore medication to suppress oestrogen is part of the treatment plan.
We’ve all been there, feeling in a haze, but it will get clearer,
There is lots of info on the main website here, so do have a look.
ann x
Hello Daisy62 and sorry about your diagnosis sounds exactly as mine. I was diagnosed 21st July, had a lumpectomy on 15th August with 2 nodes removed even though they said they looked fine they remove 2 to check. When I got my results on 25th August I was told lymph nodes were not affected and a clear margin taken so cancer gone. I started tamoxifen 5 weeks ago and so far so good. Ten years of tamoxifen and a yearly mammogram and breast clinic appt. I am now on day 9 of 10 of the radiotherapy and again so far so good. Please take time to get your head as sorted as you can but please be gentle with yourself. Take care. Mary xxxx
Just wanting the 17th to be here now to have this removed…one thing I notice though is that even since my biopsy 11 days ago the lump has grown…it’s at the top of my breast, and I can feel a “pulling” sensation from it when standing… not sure whether I should be mentioning this to the clinic or just leaving it till my op now …
Hi Daisy62 my diagnosis sounds the same as yours. My op date is the 20th October and I’m the same just want the date to be here now. Just a thought, could you ring your BC nurse about your lump. Take care xx
I was diagnosed 29th with surgery booked for 20th Oct… It is seemingly being played down and “curable” the optium word… should I be worried??
Sorry for hijacking xx
Daisy62, as Eileen says, no harm in mentioning the sensation you are feeling to your BCN but, in all likelihood I would suspect it’s just feeling a bit more prominent to you now because it’s been biopsied and the whole area is recovering from that intrusion. You are also at the stage, which I remember oh so very well, when you are sat waiting for treatment to start and your mind runs away with you. The waiting around really is the worst bit.
Agarside, welcome but sorry you have to be here. “Potentially curable” is the phrase that was used at all my early appointments and on the letters from my surgeon. There are so many of us that get this disease and so many people who survive it and go on to live for a very long time afterwards. The way I see it is that, and I am assuming you are in the UK, there is no way that our cash-strapped NHS would put so many resources into treating the huge amount of women who get this disease each year if it wasn’t likely to be successful.
Hi Everyone. I was diagnosed on Friday 30/9/16. I’ve to go back for my treatment plan on Monday and been told that I will get a lumpectomy. I am scared beyond belief and I can’t stop crying. I know there are millions of women who get bc and its curable. I feel so pathetic when all I see on hear is all the positive posts. I’m hoping that some of it rubs off on me.
Hi Everyone. I was diagnosed on Friday 30/9/16. I’ve to go back for my treatment plan on Monday and been told that I will get a lumpectomy. I am scared beyond belief and I can’t stop crying. I know there are millions of women who get bc and its curable. I feel so pathetic when all I see on hear is all the positive posts. I’m hoping that some of it rubs off on me.
It’s ok…you can let it go…no-one can stay positive with this all the time.I can normally keep going and smile but had a bit of a melt down last night.it’s the little things.having had an extra fec thrown into the mix I seem to be suffering this month…mouth problems and fatigue.very busy weekend for how I’m feeling and walking home from the pictures on my own I had to go and buy some milk.who’d think a little thing could throw me over the edge?! You might as well ask me to walk to the north pole…swimmy spacey head, aching all over and then a queue…lay on the bed and cried my eyes out…first time in ages I felt like that.i will rise again though as will you…x
Feel devastated, went to hosp yesterday to sign my operation consent form and I mentioned to the doctor I was so relieved that the lump I had when I went for a mammogram in November was not same lump found as this one. Oh yes, he says, we’ve began an investigation in to that, it appears there was a shadow which should have triggered a recall, the main radiologist is willing to meet with you to discuss the issue. So I’m now thinking Have I had this longer than I thought and what does it mean for me. I just can’t stop crying and don’t know what to do.
Hi Eileen
I to had a clear mamogramme last Nov, after a recall to double check!! My cons told me it ‘happens’ depending on where it is and no where near 100% accurate. I plan to view these original and compare against latest to see if there is a difference… I to wonder if this tumor can grow so fast???
ive been told that breast cancer is one of the slowest growing cancers out of them all. I’m sorry you two seem to gave been given the all clear, but hopefully it will all be sorted soon. Big hugs xxx
Thank you so much…
Letters received today, pre op on 13th Oct, op on 20th…it is all just so real now.
It is hard to see the other side yet, when it is the physiolgical hard bit to go first…
Trying to get home at a state that all the silly little jobs are done so it doesn’t frustrate me when I’m not as mobile…
But it is good to hear positive stuff!!
Amanda
Xx
Feistyflora lovely to hear you are feeling well! In the middle of treatment and seem to have hit a bit of a low and then read comments on Facebook etc of people years later saying they still feel awful and their life is ruined great hearing something positive xx
i see you have lots of support. Just wanted to say that so far i have had a few chemos now which, if they gave me side effects, settled down. I read an article which said that if we expect side effects then we are more likely to experience them and actually, there seems to be sone truth in that!
My onc always plays the side effects down and of course im skeptical, but twice now hes been spot on,
im on eribulin just now i/v and have gone a bt thin on top, but am now getting no side effects and the hair is growing back AND the drug seems to be working!
i wish you the very best of luck with our treament plan
great hearing something positive xx