Getting myself worked up - over nothing?

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I’m currently waiting to hear back from my Breast Cancer Nurse about an appt. to check my reconstruction. I have had a lot of pain around my right implant for about a week - just thought it was a pulled muscle but now it’s rally sore and tight under my arm. I’m frantic because I’ve got all these scenarios in my head about what it could be - is the implant leaking? do i have another recurrence round there? is it the progression in my ribs going haywire?
She said she’s going to make an appt for an ultrasound to check the implant is ok, as she doesn’t want to wait for my next boney scan in 5 weeks.
I’m just so paranoid that this is another thing that this sh!tty disease is throwing at me and my husband.

Has anyone else had any issues with their reconstructions a few years down the line? I don’t want to feel so alone in this.

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Poannie,

I am so sorry that you feel like this. I recognise the feeling so well.
It could be anything, as you know. I had a similar wobble when my recon startin hurting and shrinking after 10 years.

As I have secondaries, my friends could not understand my concern about something, seemingly so trivial!!

My problems were put down to just one of those things when scans showed nothing. In this game that can happen.

If you can, put the anxiety in a box until you speak to some one. Easier said than done I know.

Julie xxx

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Hi Poannie,
just sending you a hug as you wait.
Jacquie x