I have ridden the most emotional roller coaster the last 12 days that I have ever had in my life.
It started with going to have a routine mammogram (I have to have a diagnostic all the time due to some burns I had when I was a child). The radiologist came in after wards and said that there is an area that she is concerned about and I need to have it biopsied as soon a s possible.
I saw my regular physican that afternoon who did a physical exam and said he didn’t want to touch it and sent me to a surgeon. When I saw the surgeon, the first thing he did was a physical exam and when he said under his breath, “oh sweeheart”, I felt sick and new I had cancer. He also did a sonogram. After wards he told me I had cancer. He sat and talked to me about the different treatments, options and everything. He set me up to have a core biopsy which I had 2 days ago. After I had the biopsy I asked the doctor if he still had the same thoughts as he did last Friday. He said yes. He said he was 80% sure I had cancer.
Yesterday I got my results. Nothing… fat necrosis. How can a doctor one day tell me I have cancrer and then the next I don’t? I don’t know what to think or what to do. I have a follow up appointment with him next week and they are going to do another mammogram.
Any one had an experience like this? Should I just let things go and go on with my life? What do I do? What do I say?
Dear Jager
What an awful experience for you to go through and I can so understand why you are feeling so confused. If at the end of all of this you are not happy, I would ask for a second opinion - you are completely entitled to do this. It really annoys me when I hear things like this as sometimes the doctors are wrong and they tell you that you have cancer and you don’t or that you don’t have it and you do. You need to be 100% satisfied with the answers you are given and the results.
I hope that you manage to get a conclusive result and that it is in fact only fat necrosis and not cancer.
Best wishes
Rubyxxx
Hi Jager,
This is terrible. No wonder you don’t know which way to turn.
I think as Ruby says, you need to be 100% reassured before you can ‘get on with your life’ (and even if you get the all-clear, you shouldn’t underestimate the difference a scare like this can make to your outlook on life).
Can you take a relative or friend with you next week? Someone who will support you but who won’t let you leave without proper answers. Write down everything you want to ask, and what they tell you.
Would you be prepared to have a second biopsy? I don’t know if that would be an option. It’s not unheard of for biopsies to not get to the core of the tumour, and give a false result.
Is fat necrosis something very rare that you only get after burns? Maybe they don’t have any experience of this and you need to see a burns specialist?
Wishing you the very best of luck and sending you a hug
love Jacquie x
After sleeping on it, I have a game plan. He said that he had left a little bit of the lump so that they could find it later when they go back in. I am gong to ask him to remove the rest of the lump and have it biopsied just to give me a peace of mind. As long as it is there I will have have this doubt in the back of my mind. This way it will be gone and I will know for sure that the biopsy was correct.
Good idea After my first biopsy I was told I had a 1cm very slow growing tumour which I may not need chemo for .Three weeks later after they removed it I was told it was 2.4cm,grade 3,mega aggressive and full of vascular invasion with spread to my nodes.When I queried it I was told that mistakes do happen!! Get a seccond opinion and have some peace of mind.
Josie x
The doctor called me today. He said that the pathologist took another look at the biopsy and did find a spot. He said it is Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma. It’s small though, only 2mm.