Started out with DCIS now Microinvasion

Leslie - You are at a very stressful point in the process, the worrying and uncertainties and the waiting are difficult, so hang in there, it really does get easier. Don't play the odds game, the only numbers that matter are your own, and you do not have all of the information yet.

I was the same age as you when diagnosed after a routine mammo. lead to a stereo. biopsy, also initially with dcis (in my case, grade 2) and no reason to believe it'd be more than stage 0 based on the mri, ultrasound, and additional mammogram. Like you, I had a lumpectomy which only in its final pathology report revealed 1.75 mm of grade 2 idc. So exactly 14 days after my lumpectomy, I went under general again (never had general before lumpectomy, never even had any surgery before) for the snb biopsy.

Completely agree that the snb was the more painful surgery from which to recover. Wishing you favorable results from the snb, and in all likelihood (yes, now I'll call upon statistics) the existence of the micro amounts of idc will not change you treatment plan in the end (I had rads only, no chemo, and I was given the option to take or pass on tamoxifen - I passed, personal choice).

You are welcome, Leslie, just paying it forward. I'm just over four years out from diagnosis (and 3.5 years from treatment) and what got me mentally through all of this -- and continues to -- are these boards, so please come here as much as you need. None of us has a crystal ball to see into the future and most of us knew little about any of this before we got diagnosed, we just do the best that we can to make decisions based on the information available to us at the time. I compartmentalize my life and share very little about bc outside of these boards, I prefer to only address with others who have/are going through it, as they understand.

It's tough geting a good night's sleep at your point in this; if I could change one thing, I'd have been open to taking something to help my over-thinking brain get a break at 3 AM and getting much needed sleep.