Waiting for core biopsy results

My thoughts are with you both today ladies!  The mind games that breast issues play on us are no fun!  Our minds immediately jump to the worst case scenario when we face the unknown.  Please try and take it one step at a time (easier said than done)...

We all know how the mind spins and can be logical, sane, and calm one minute, and then freaking out the next--those are normal feelings!  Know that the waiting is the hardest part--we can't start "fixing" what we don't know, but our natural instinct is to try...The results from the biopsy will get here soon.  Let us hear!

The good news: 10% chance of malignancy means 90% chance of no malignancy.

I hope you both are able to enjoy this treat of a long weekend!!!  Find a fun, new diversion--my DH and I turned on the sprinkler and lay under it on our lawn chairs...

When I had my biospy on a Friday afternoon the surgeon called me Sunday to tell me it was B9.

Your wait may be a short one like mine was.

Glad you made it - I knew you would!!!!!

Well done Lavender.  Now go do something special and acknowledge the mile stone you made.  Yes you had lots of support leading up to yesterday but, it was down to you in the end and you did what you had too.  YAY!! 

Hey Lavender,you had yours on the same day as me! Except i had a lumpectomy! I am SO glad you had a great nurse to help calm your nerves! I really hope for B9 results for you and all the other ladies here in the " waiting room".

We TOLD you waiting was the worst....but, NO, you thought getting the test was the worst!! hehehehehehehe

Hang in there sweetie!

I'm hoping your results come back benign, and I'm pretty sure they will, even with your mother's history. Will you be satisfied if the biopsy results are benign? Or would you plan further tests? Good luck waiting through tomorrow--I'm sending positive vibes your way.

It's my understanding that complete removal of the tumor, lump, area of concern, is the only way to determine it's complete pathology.  In dealing with melanoma, I have had many excisionel biopsies with clear and not clear margins and have trusted the path reports from those procedures.  Inside or out, the excisionel tells the hystory of the area of concern.   

If you know your not going to be able to trust the core biopsy path report, then make that known to your dr and get the wheels in motion for an excisionel biopsy to be done. 

In my case, the surgeon wanted another ultrasound and based on that report, I am having an excisionel biopsy on Sept. 13th for a solitary papilloma with a path report that came back B9. 

It's not uncommon to have excisionel biopsies on B9 lumps.  So, given your overwelming fear of your family hystory repeating itself through you, further testing shouldn't be an unreasonable request to be met to give you the answer you need to move forward.   It sounds as though you are not going to be comfortable with or be able to trust the path report from the core biopsy you just had.  

See how you really feel when you get the path report and go from there. 

 Take care.  I'm hoping for a B9 outcome for you. 

Lavender, it would be the other way around! If she did expect that it was cancer, she'd go right to an excisional to remove it! It sounds like you're only going to be happy with a cancer diagnosis, so I'll say it. Lavender, you have cancer!

Come on!! You have fought every single thing we have said to you! You have questioned every move by your doctors and even ones they haven't done yet!! What are we to say???? Now that you have heard it, how does it make you feel?

Sampling a piece of your lump will NOT get rid of it. You've been told that. You would have to have an excisional biopsy to get rid of it. But in your previous post you expressed a desire first to have an excisional, and then to not want one. We know you are scared. Most of us answering you already have cancer. We have heard our name and cancer in the same sentence. I was trying to shock you to see what it feels like. I was the one that told you that even if you don't have cancer, you have lived it. You have experienced the fear and the tests and all the wait times. I have been your biggest fan to date. I need to hear you listen to us and repeat some of the positive things we have been trying to help you with.

The results of this single biopsy will NOT give you the answer you need if it is negative because you will always wonder. Gottobeme has suggested you ask for an excisional biopsy anyway and that's where you disagreed yet again. She had a great point!

I think it's just that we don't know how to help you when you beat down any help we are trying to provide you with. I was also the one that told you to post in the other thread you started. It's common of newbies to open up multiple threads but then no one can find you to see what's happening. You lose your followers.

I'll shut up now.

That last person also said you would not believe the biopsy results.

Looks like that person might be right. 

Here's the deal: You need to get past this because there will always be another breast lump. Breasts are lumpy. Everyone's breasts are lumpy, it's the nature of glandular tissue. Even when this current crisis is over, at some point, especially being young and not yet having children, you will most likely notice another breast lump.

Mind you, I'm not a doctor or any more knowledgeable than any of the people on this board, but I think you should be tested for the BRCA 1 and 2 genes since your mother had breast cancer and your grandmother ovarian cancer. If you test positive, maybe consider prophylactic bilateral mastectomy and ovary removal. If you test negative, be satisfied with the results of your current breast biopsy. 

Another suggestion I'd like to make as a fellow severe anxiety and panic sufferer, is a book called, "When Panic Attacks." It's absolutely excellent. Cognitive and behavioral therapy has also worked wonders for me and might for you also. I can't imagine what it must have been like to lose your mother at such a young age, and I'm not surprised you're suffering from breast cancer fears. But there really are some great tools out there to help you. (I'm much more concerned about you getting help for your anxiety than you ever having breast cancer.)

Good luck, and you're welcome to message me privately if you'd like to talk more about cognitive and behavioral therapy.

Lavender--I strongly believe you need to stop coming to this board because it's fueling your anxiety. You're not learning anything new here, just reading scary stories. Get up, get away from the Internet for a while, get some exercise, read a book, meet with friends and ask about THEIR lives. Leave your head for a while. And when you feel the anxiety and panic, LET IT HAPPEN! Look at it from the point of view of an impartial observer and see for a fact that the fear and anxiety do not harm you. Fear will not hurt you in any way.  

When you try to stop anxiety, strangely enough you can make it worse. When you just let it happen, it will run its course faster. What's weird, too, about anxiety, is that the subject of your anxiety doesn't matter. If the anxiety is strong enough, anything can trick your brain into thinking you're dying.

You're probably more scared about your 99.99999%-likely benign lump than most women on this board are about their diagnosed stage IV cancer because your brain has convinced your body that it's facing the firing squad at dawn!! Anxiety is truly, truly a bitch. 

Good luck, and please consider buying that book I mentioned.

J