just diagnosed

Hi Trying,

I am so sorry you have gone thru so much. Its too bad the doctors didnt biopsy that lump before doing the augmentation. Do you have any idea how large the lump is? Lobular is often not seen on mammograms. Mine didnt show either. Once your surgeon has all your results, you will have a better idea of what you are dealing with. Remember to write down any questions you may have for your doctors. Its normal to feel as you do...we all have gone thru it and w understand. Hugs, Mazy

This is the hardest thing you will ever have to go through. I am so sorry. Cancer SUCKS!!! I I see Mazy has some time under her belt...I love seeing that. Bravo for you! There is a lot of hope. We must remember that. We must try to keep our minds elevated. It is so very difficult. The good thing is they did eventually find it. That IS a good thing. I will be thinking of you and sending good thoughts your way.

XXXOOO Karen 

Oh no. I'm so sorry.

I'm just a couple of weeks ahead of you in diagnosis. I know exactly how you're feeling & what you're going through. It's so hard. I swear, the fear, the not knowing--it makes you insane.

I asked my doctor (actually, my husband asked him) for something for the anxiety and depression. It didn't help right away, but I feel it's helping me cope now.

I also have new implants (March, 2009) and first felt my lump in late 2009. I believe my implants also pushed my lump forward so I could feel it. But I also had a lift--did you have a lift too? I, too, am concerned about radiation and treatments with implants. But there's nothing I can do about that *right now*. We have to take that issue as it comes. Sometimes implants aren't affected at all by radiation, sometimes they are. 

Anyway, Karen is right. It *will* get better. It's okay, too, right now, to feel whatever you feel.This situation truly sucks.

Please feel free to pm me anytime. I feel we have a lot of similarities in timeframes, with the implants, and with ILC. Hang in there, and big hugs.

Jen

I've had two surgeries. One before I knew it was BC (my biopsy came back negative, I said I still wanted this bizarre lump OUT). That was a lumpectomy, and it was a cakewalk compared to the breast aug+lift a year earlier. The second surgery was a reexcision (because they didn't get clear margins the first time) and a sentinal lymph node biopsy. That was quite a bit more uncomfortable, and 3 weeks later I'm still recovering from it--mostly from the lymph node biopsy. I'm pretty sure he must've cut into a few nerves, and my arm has been a mess.

If I had cancer in both breasts, I'd get a mastectomy in the blink of an eye. I'm actually considering it now, because I am concerned about where the surgeon cut during the breast lift (he cut through the area where the cancer was, possibly spreading cells all over the place). I don't know anything about having a mastectomy with implants, though. They must take them out? I'm really not sure. Do you know what kind of surgery your surgeon is planning for you, now that you have an issue on the other side as well?

Thanks for the website--I'm off to read it.

Fingers crossed you can get that biopsy in soon and it's nothing! Please keep us posted, and please keep me posted about your surgery and how you're dealing with the implants through treatment. 

I need to make and appointment with the radiology oncologist next week. I'll keep you posted, too, on what they decide to do with me.

I got my E, P, and HER2 scores very quickly--within a week. The Oncotype score took 3 weeks.