Not good at waiting!!!
I'm not good at waiting and my mind is running wild. I have been so upset lately. My husband had early stage prostate ca 2 years ago and he is doing great. My mom was diagnosed at 62 with pancreatic ca, had surg. a year ago and it's now spread to her liver and after some tricky times her numbers are down. My aunt her sister (age 66 at diag.) had stage 2 breast ca a year ago, had a double mastectomy and had chemo and radiation and doing well. My husbands mom (83) just got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and she is doing a low dose chemo and we are aren't sure on her course of action yet. There is more to my story but I won't go on...I have so much anxiety and I am a worrier, I drive my hubby crazy. So I've had mammos since I was 39, I'm 46. All came back fine and no problems, last one was at the end of Nov. 2014. I decided this year and a suggestion on my "mammo is fine" result form to do an ultrasound as precautionary because stage 3 density. Well I went in for this dreaded appt. on Tue., I had already convinced myself that things wouldn't go smoothly. I got thru the ultrasound with high anxiety and was chatting with the tech. and I asked her if everything looked ok. She said everything looked fine and that she found to spots on my left breast which didn't look like anything cancerous. She said the radiologist would take a look, but that she doubted she would do any further treatment and would either probably just see me back in 6 months or a year. Well she took a look and said I see 2 areas and they look benign. I said how do you know and she talked about the edges being smooth and not characteristic of ca. She said one might be a papilloma and maybe not the both could be fibrostic or something like that. She said you might need surgery if its papilloma to just be gone with it. She then said lets do a biopsy. I nearly died, I thought I was ok. So she asked if I wanted to get it over with or come back. I said get it over with. It wasn't that bad but my heart was pounding out of my chest. She was smiling at her samples?? I asked again. Do you think I'm going to be ok. She said I think its going to be ok. She said I look at this stuff every day and I'll just leave it at that. Now I wait til the call on Fri. or Mon. I'm dying inside and have three young daughters to contend with. I still feel the radiologist and tech were just trying to be nice to me (my husband (positive person) doesn't think that) and then I think what if it is ca...over and over in my head. My mom took the brachy test today, but we are pretty optimistic that will be negative....hopefully, like I said I have three girls. HELP, having trouble sleeping!! I want B9!!!
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Mommyof3girlies-
First, we want to welcome you to our community here at BCO. We're sorry for the worry that brings you here, but we're glad you've found us.
Radiologists and techs will typically stay pretty quiet about their findings during exams and procedures, unless they're pretty positive that the results are good, which seems to be the case here. The doctor seemed very happy with your ultrasound and biopsy samples, and since she does look at these things everyday, her experience should definitely carry some weight. We know how hard the wait is, and we know that our minds many times automatically go to the worst case scenario. But try to stay positive, and focus on the fact that your doctors seem pretty confident that you're going to be ok!
Please let us know when your results come back, you're in our thoughts!
The Mods
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Thank you! I keep going from chances are it's going to be ok to, what if it's bad news. I did get the feeling from the tech. and the Radiologist that things didn't look bad. In fact when the radiologist found out the doctor was going to go thru with a biopsy she said, I'm sorry and then reiterated that she thought everything would be just fine. I'm supposed to find out tomorrow and if not tomorrow Mon...This is inhumane for women to wait this long. If everything turns out ok, then I am going to see things differently now. I've got to take my husbands advice and get off the internet...it can make you feel negative when you read some stuff. I just read that having a core biopsy. I think that's what I had, but I laid on my back and with general anesthesia and I had no pain, can mean that the doctor suspects malignancy.......
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Well I don't know if anyone saw my posts other than the mods, but I'd thought I'd let you know that my biopsy is benign and I have fibroids. This could also be scar tissue from a major car accident two years ago in which the airbag hit me hard. I feel so lucky, but I got some insight into a scary place. You are all so brave, but you are all fighters, I found out we all instinctively go into the fight mode. Good luck to everyone and stay strong!!!! -
Mommyof3girlies, glad you got b9 news! Thanks for coming back and posting. People are reading for sure..
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Thank you RV6gal. I will always check in on people on this site now. Like I said it was such an experience for me to go through and I was a lucky one. Bless you all!!!! -
So glad that you got good news
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To Mommyof3girlies,
HOOOOOOORRRRAAAAYYYYY!!!!
I'm so happy for you!
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Awesome news. That is so wonderful!!!
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