How many "scares" have you had since tx ended

I've had one major one and Several minor ones. The major one was when I had to have a chest wall lump bx'ed....B9.

The minor ones have been weird bumps on my trunk (scared it was skin mets), when I had random spasms in my groin and aching in my femur (eventually went away on its own) and I've also had a few tender rib spots on my non cancer side that I was scared to get checked out, but they never got worse so...

I'm asking for a brain MRI after the holidays. I can't deal with it before the holidays. I ruined Christmas for my family two years, I don't want to do it again.

This shit never seems to end doesn't it? ((((Hugs))))

I've had more than a few....lets see....I had a brain MRI because of numbness in the face (I knew it was the tamoxifen!), two uterine biopsies and several times of at least thinking for a period of time that I had something going on. It does get exhausting, but it's important to be vigilant, and celebrating when it's not cancer-related is a big relief! Hang in there! We all feel your angst

having one right now. Persistent pain in thigh that is not muscular and not related to exercise or injury. Spooked. Eight years out and about to retire. Have had other scares re bowels and gallbladder. This is the scariest.

11 years........so many scares.....have lost count.....

but they all ended up being nothing....

It's tough......I now wait four weeks before I look for a scan, etc.

Jacqueline

So reporting back that my brain MRI did turn up brain mets...still working on recovering from my crainontomy. But, the happy news was that my follow up body scans were clear. So for well over a year, I had been worried about three specific sites - my R hip, my R ribs and my liver. All three were clean as a whistle. So morale of the story...most of these aches and pains are NOTHING! (But please do be careful with your brains. Brain surgery is not fun)

Elizabeth, it's the damn her2 nastiness. Those cells have learned to be all like, "well your Herceptin and Perjeta have slayed us in the rest of the body...lets go invade your brain!" Truly the irony of the price of progress.

My symptoms were mild sensory and visual ones and easy to chalk up to things like neuropathy and migraines. In fact, I did for several months, but got more and more nervous as time went on, so I waited out the holidays and then demanded an MRI, which revealed multiple lesions, including two of 3cm. And oncs are still so stubborn on ordering brain scans...maddening! The big ones were removed in my crainontomy and the little ones will hopefully be zapped by chemo. SRS rads have come a long way and I have Tykerb, Xeloda, Nertibab and other meds in my back pocket. Dying is not an option - I have a husband of less than two years, parents who would be devastated to outlive me and a family I still want to have.

I have had a few scares in the past 7 years since treatment has ended....I always feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. I just had surgery back in December to have masses removed from my abdomen. wasn't sure if it was a complication from reconstruction 3 years ago or something else. I was never so happy when I heard it was a mass full of absess....gross I know and I could have went septic, but I didn't and it is not cancer.