It’s been a less than brilliant week. First of all I go for the first post-treatment check up with my oncologist and told her about my shoulder/arm pain. After a very thorough exam she’s ordered some tests and said that she cannot rule out it being a regional recurrence or mets. Not what I was expecting at all! Luckily I’m seeing my surgeon tomorrow and some of the results will be ready by then.
To top it all I’ve just found out that yet another member of the family has BC, bringing the total to four.
Thanks everyone. At the moment I feel like I’m back to how I was this time last year waiting for a dx and I thought I was done with all of that. At least I’m not having to wait very long this time.
Hi, I know how you feel ,I have just completed a week of tests that started with simple x-ray for a sore back. It was not normal so that sparked off a bone scan, spect/ct scan, chest x-ray,rib x-ray, mri spine, mri liver and liver ultrasound!
When they ran out of scans they decided I had no evidence of mets!!!
We do get sent for more tests and do assume the worst,but there is hope as I have proven!
Good luck, I have everything crossed for you.
Love n hugs
Dot
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Oh dear bless you good luck for tom appt, tom I have my 1st Onc appt had mx 7 weeks ago and only just starting to feel sad and scared about it all - very strange - but they took me off my meds to start chemo and my skin condition gone crazy and very sore so think that is affecting my emotions grrr! Hope tom brings good news and thinking of you xxxx
Hi Nymeria,
All this crap is a lot to take in your stride and you’re perfectly entitled to feel vulnerable some days. If you’re anything like me, then it’s most days. Dot makes good point, they do fire many unnecessary tests at us, but its mainly to keep us safe. I complained of dizzyness whilst on chemo and they put me through the ‘brain mets’ scare, but it all came out to be something and nothing. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you that yours is too. I know how you feel about watching breast cancer almost ‘spread’ around you. I’m a nurse and I’m just putting it down to the volume of women I work with, but we seem to catch it like the cold!! The statistic is looking closer to 1 in 8 women now, but it feels like even more than this to me some days.
Annie xxx
I’m now back from the hospital and I do have something to worry about as the x-ray showed a shadow on my lung. I need to have a CT scan and he’s going to try and get that sorted as soon as he can. More waiting and more worrying!
Not sure how I’m going to deal with it being bad news on top of the latest family developments, especially as we now know that my aunt’s breast cancer is terminal.
I hate breast cancer and what it does to our lives!
Nymeria, have you had rads? That can sometimes cause a bit of a shadow particularly if they managed to “catch” the edge of your lung when you were being zapped. Hope it turns out to be nothing at all.
Nymeria,so sorry to hear this. I hope they get the scan sorted ASAP. They waiting is just agony.It seems that one imaging technique is never enough! They can only know for sure when you have more than one test, so nothing is certain yet.
Big hugs (((((((((((()))))))))))))
Dot
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As you can imagine, I did not have a good night as I just kept thinking about it all. I shall end up hating September at this rate as that was when things all started last year!
CM - I did have rads and my surgeon did admit that radiotherapy damage was a possibility but he was honest enough to say that he really wasn’t convinced that was the problem and hence the CT scan. Obviously I am hoping that it’s a problem from rads and nothing else. It seems mad to be worrying about this when I only finished chemo at the end of April but there you go.
I’m just keeping everything crossed at the moment!
