Hi everyone, I had a biopsy done after having recall after mammogram which was rated a BIRADS5 which means I am expecting to get bad new on Monday! I was told they found a suspicious looking area around 4mm which is tiny, but isn’t helping my nerves, scared witless I have cancer.
Hi Cas, sorry to hear you are in the waiting room, it is not the greatest place is it? The best thing is to hear how tiny it is, hang on to that. We all feel terrible in the waiting room, it’s normal, try and burn up the anxieties with something as fun and active as you can manage.
Wishing you the best for Monday
Lavender
xx
Hi casgold,
It is an awful time the waiting room your imagination runs riot! Remember there will always be someone here to help, all the very best for Mon, take care xx
Hi Cas,
This waiting room as a lot of us call it is not where any of us want to be.you will find a lot of support on here as we are in same position as
you we are all at different stages of the waiting room
all i can say keep positive there is a lot of different problems that we get with our breast most are fatty benign even cycst lumps, i know its easier said than done when all thoughts are going through our heads which is natural.
it seem to take forever for results.
Take courage from a lot of us on this forum we are here to comfort each other whatever our news will be.
Keep in touch thinking of you Pat
Thank you so much for your kind thoughts, means a lot I am finding it really difficult to deal with and can’t stop thinking about it. I keep imagining, before I even get results, that its spread everywhere!! Is it normal still to be in so much pain after a biopsy it was done on tuesday and I’m stil really bruised and sore?
Again thank you all and my thoughts are with everyone one here who is dealing with this difficult situation.
much love
Carol xxx
Hi Carol, it really is hard sitting in the waiting room. I went through waves of denial to hugging my friends a lot!!! After my biopsy, the bruising lasted a couple of weeks and I was taking paracetemol for a few days. Unfortunately, normal goes out of the window here and it is not a word that can be attached to anything you’re going through right now. Try not to expect too much of yourself and give yourself a breather wherever you can. Best wishes for Monday, will be thinking of you, Simone xxx
Hi Carol,
I can only say when i had my first biopsy i am still in a lot of pain
6 weeks and more after, everything goes through our heads it is very hard to stay positive only us knows how we feel,
like you i also imagine the worst a doc told me it is tension pain when we are so worried.
i try to put on brave face then crumble when alone, saying that it helps.i say to myself often, dust yourself off start again be positive i know it is hard to.
There is such a lot of clever scientist who are finding out new things every week whom i put my faith in there is a lot of hope and help on here for you.
Keep pecker up Pat x
Hi Cas
I know exactly how you are feeling hun. I@m now aiting on the results of my node biospsy after having the offending lump removed Wednesday - my results day isnt until 25th Oct - how i wish i could fast forward time.
As for your state of mind and those dark thoughts about spread everywhere - I reckon most go through that - every little flicker of an itch or any pain i feel i am adamant in my own mind that my cancer is spreading like wildfire - I kid you not.
Since I came home on wednesday - im franticly searching for lumps in my healthy breast, I had a few twinges in my left side yesterday so I was adamant I had it growing in my left side, Ive had a headache on and off for a few days which is probably stress but I have convinced myself I had it in my brain and/or skull, my calve was hurting yesterday so apparantely I was about to have a DVT. Any abdo pain I feel is convincing me i have cervical or ovarian cancer…the list is endless believe me. Its like the TV only ever plays cancer ads when I turn over a channel and only this week did my region start to run a lung cancer campaign!!! Im like WTF!!!
My mind is working overtime and its totally peeing me off - i spoke to a friend who introduced me to her friend who had BC 2 years ago and she described the exact same symptoms as me - she swore that they were going to find it in every organ.
You are perfectly normal Cas - the mind has an awful ability to play games with us when we are stressed - i wish I could just switch off until my results - but burying my head in the sand aint helping so I just take a deep breath, have a word with myself and move on. I come on here and learn so much from all of us beautiful women who are walking the same journey.
Sending you some cyber hugs hunny ((((HUGS))))
Hi cas, waiting is terrible. I had 3 biopsies on the 8th of Oct and have my results appointment on Wednesday 19th. I’m still sore but find paracetemol helps but havetm tuck the car seat belt under my arm when driving or the seat belt hurts. I’m not expecting home news as I was told my lymph nodes are abnormal. It sounds a bit trite but fresh and exercise in the day has helped distract me from obsessing about it spreading during the day, but right now I feel sick with fear, knowing worrying is normal doesn’t make it easier. Have had several late night jam making sessions too! Whishing u all the best,
Herbi
Hi all,
Well I am absolutely gutted. I had a partial axillary clearance on 7th October and was told I would get my follow appointment 2 weeks later (21st) postman has just this minute arrived with a letter saying appointment is 28th!!! In the meantime I am left with a really uncomfortable seroma, my mind is working overtime wondering if it has spread elsewhere, not able to sleep and constantly stressing. As I can’t drive yet I can’t even get out to distract myself. This nightmare doesn’t seem to end. Was first diagnosed 5th August.
Hello Sunshine 1,
How annoying for you, i bet you are ranting and raving i would be also.
i wasnt told when results will be through, same time as most of us
they seem to take it for granted that we should know, waiting is the pits. my op was on 13th gone, i seem to be having aches pain everywhere, mind playing tricks must be.
Have you tried putting wad of cotton wool where seat belt go.
OOPPPSSS!!! i think i must have heard you because i would be shouting at the walls sounding like a navvy on building site.
Keep pecker up new treatment are being found all time for us.
Hugs Pat xx
Hi everyone
well got my results yesterday and it wasn’t good news, however diagnosed as tubular cancer and 5 mm and grade1. Surgeon says she will do lumpectomy and take out some lymph nodes just to be sure it hasn’t spread. Didn’t show up in lymph nodes on US but thats only 85% accurate so fingers crossed.
Go for bloods checks tomorrow morning and pre-op assessment next Tuesday and will get a date for op then too.
Apparantly its the best cancer (if there is one!!!) to get so still feel a bit shocked, and why is my left breast sore when its in my right one !!! Arn’t bodies strange !!!
Hope you are all fighting along with me.
Sending hugs to everyone
love
Carol xxx
Just an update on my appointment. I rang my BCN and she too was surprised at the date. Left it with her and she rang back to say it had been changed to this Friday, hooray. So fingers crossed. I have actually been down to the hospital this morning to get my seroma looked at. I feel as though I have a grapefruit under my arm and so uncomfortable. They are loathe to drain it as they tend to refill and can become infected. Was also at the hospital yesterday with my dad so I feel as though I have a season ticket at the moment.
Hoping everyone’s results are good x
Sunshine, pleased for you that your appointment has been sorted, and aching for you re that grapefruit under the arm, and soooo know what you mean re the season ticket!
Carol, sorry to hear that your results came back as what you suspected, but it’s good that it’s small, and good that US for nodes looks good so far, it does all get a bit better once you have more of a plan, and you know more what you are dealing with.
Hugs all round, very delicately for Sunshine
Well here I am again. Went back to the hospital for the third time this week. Results day!!! Hooray at last good news. After having axillary clearance, no more nodes have been involved and even better news… as I only have grade 1 and the cells that were found in the one node during SNB are so tiny, I don’t need chemotherapy and … my seroma has been drained, I can move my arm again. Just hoping it doesn’t refill. I am so relieved but not quite as elated as I thought I would be. Maybe still in shock. I was convinced I would be receiving bad news again. Just 3 weeks rads and tamoxifen for 5 years.
Anyway wishing you all the very best and hope all your results are as good as mine.
Love to everyone and will keep looking in to see how you are all getting on xx
Great news, sunshine, you still have to go on with treatment but with the expectation of a really good outcome. I think all of these endpoints produce more of a thud than a sparkle, the smiles comelater.