Eek - the nerves are beginning to kick in

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Janet456
Janet456 Member Posts: 507
edited June 2014 in DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ)

Just got the appointment through for the first year check up.

Weds 31st July - 08.30am mammogram, 09.00am Consultants office for the results.

Wish me luck xx

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  • dogsandjogs
    dogsandjogs Member Posts: 1,907
    edited July 2013

    You get your results the same day?  I get a letter in the mail----or if bad news, my doc will call a few days later.

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  • dogsandjogs
    dogsandjogs Member Posts: 1,907
    edited July 2013

    I'm sure it will be fine----try not to worry too much---

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  • Janet456
    Janet456 Member Posts: 507
    edited July 2013

    Thanks x

    Yes, it's all done in one day - they try and reduce the anxiety levels for you as much as possible.  Our NHS are pretty good really. xx

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  • Annette47
    Annette47 Member Posts: 957
    edited July 2013

    Good luck! 

    I just had my 6 month a couple weeks ago .... mammo and surgeon's appointment.    It was a bit nerve wracking as they kept calling me back for additional views, and then sent a letter saying "probably benign, recheck in 6 months".  I'm pretty sure it was a form letter though as when I finally saw the surgeon 10 days later, she said the mammo looked "great";  that the additional views were just because of scar tissue; and that the 6 months is standard for the first 2 years, then we'll go back to yearly.

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  • mrenee68
    mrenee68 Member Posts: 383
    edited July 2013

    Janet I'm with you I have my first mammogram Thursday at 9:30 and then I meet with the BS at 10:30. I keep getting that butterflies in your stomach feeling when I think about it. I'm scared they are going to find something. Best of luck to you. Let us know how it goes.

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  • Janet456
    Janet456 Member Posts: 507
    edited July 2013

    Thanks for the support ladies xx

    Well i've been squished and squashed and poked and I'm good to go for another year.  I have never been so relieved in my life.

    Going back to the same room, seeing the chair you sat in a year ago, second guessing my decision for forego rads - it all came rushing back.

    Wishing you all well and with the same follow up results as me xxxxxx

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited July 2013

    I just had my four year follow-up mammo this morning also.  Thinking back, I guess I had the same apprehension at that first year follow-up, but today I had no apprehension at all.  I went in expecting to hear "nothing suspicious" and "all clear," etc. and I did.  Don't get me wrong, if they had found something, I would have felt like I was hit with a nine pound hammer; but I just did not have anxiety beforehand.  Maybe this is the healing effects of time and, if so, maybe you can get to this point in a few more years.

    Congrats on your good news today!

    dogs, My center sends the letters to the regular screening patients BUT for all getting diagnostics and B/C follow-up, there's extra wait time and the radiologist gives the results same day.

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  • Janet456
    Janet456 Member Posts: 507
    edited July 2013

    Fab news Elimar.

    I really think time will be the best healer.  "My" problem came from the fact that it all fell apart at my first screening mammogram.  I just so much wanted to have a "normal" one under my belt.  And now I've got one.

    xx

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  • Beesie
    Beesie Member Posts: 12,240
    edited July 2013

    Janet and elimar, Congrats to you both!!

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  • Infobabe
    Infobabe Member Posts: 1,083
    edited July 2013

    Annette47 

    I got that same letter.  

    I think what they are really saying is that the surgery messed up your breast so this is a new base mammogram.  The next one, six months later said, everything AOK.

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  • CTMOM1234
    CTMOM1234 Member Posts: 633
    edited July 2013

    Janet and elimar - Heartfelt congratulations to you both!!!!!! Always a relief, I know!

    My annual checkup is in a few weeks and I'm already getting nervous again -- all has been fine over these almost 4 years, but I am forever changed.

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  • mrenee68
    mrenee68 Member Posts: 383
    edited August 2013

    Had mine and all came out well. I was beginning to worry though, they took a total of 8 pictures because they couldn't find my biopsy clip. Finally got it and the radiologist came out to talk with me. She that was all they were looking for and everything look the same. Good for another year. Of course unless the oncologist wants an MRI in January.

    Congrats everyone on your good results!

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