Biopsies the week after Thanksgiving anyone?

My Dr. read my report tonight at 8:21 - good news/bad news for me

A. LEFT AXILLA LYMPH NODE, CORE BIOPSY:
REACTIVE LYMPH NODE TISSUE.

B. LEFT BREAST, 7 O'CLOCK, BIOPSY:
BENIGN BREAST TISSUE WITH FIBROCYSTIC CHANGES.

Being referred to Onologist for further testing of lymph node which is my biggest fear.

Hey everyone, thanks for being part of such a supporting community. I'm fine, but I hate this weighing over my head. Her breast is swollen with what we hope is an infection, and she's bruised up pretty bad from the 5 samples taken. Plus she's apparently allergic to the numbing agent and has a rash that's bugging her. She was on antibiotics nearly two weeks ago, and she says the pain is better after having been on them. That seems like it could be encouraging.

She's handling it better than I am, but I know it's bugging her. I fully expect to hear tomorrow. They told us it would be "2-3 days" and that was Wednesday. In a strange way, it almost seems like it would be a relief to know, even it's the news we don't want.

Cycling, I'm sorry the your results weren't as good as you wanted. I hope your further testing gives you better news.

It's kind of like a bad dream that just won't end. Everyone hang in there. I know we can get through this.

As I'm waiting, I'm thinking of the many survivors I know. A friend at work who had a serious form of breast cancer 10 years ago. You'd never know it by seeing her today, and she reminded me that treatment as advanced even in the ten years since she fought it. I have three other friends who also went through it with varying degrees of severity. They're all in great shape today.

I find that encouraging, and hope that while we wait some of you can find that encouraging also.

I got the best news ever I do NOT have canser , I do have a tumor and will be removed next Wednesday but thank you all for your prayers and I will continue to pray hard for each and everyone of you for the best out come ever. I have a new respect on life and for what each of you are going through. Best wishes for a merry Christmas ladies

So happy for you Shyann! A very merry Christmas present! I just got my results as well and not so lucky. The preliminary report is DCIS and they sent the sample to Nashville for a second opinion to make sure its not IBC. So as bad as that is, I am hopeful that its DCIS only. Nothing I have read indicates that DCIS can cause the swelling and redness that I have however, my PCP said it may just be my bodies response to something it doesn't like. So here I am, one toe in the "waiting for results" and one toe in the "just diagnosed". Sigh

Pharmgirl I hope DCIS is your answer as well! I’m nervous about IBC with my wife’s condition. She did see a small amount of improvement after antibiotics. She still has symptoms 2 weeks later though, but her Dr. told her it can tak time for breast infections to improve.

I hope that in your situation that it’s possible that the presence of DCIS caused an infection that’s just not responding to the antibiotics.

I hate it that they can’t tell you know about the IBC, but my guess is that the evidence points to DCIS and sending the sample to Nashville is a formality to confirm what the evidence already suggests.

What is your time frame on your results as you play the waiting game again...?

shyann, thanks for the good report. I’m glad to hear it!

Hi! I have been reading posts on here for weeks and finally decided to join in the fun. I had a mammogram in September and was immediately called back for additional imaging the next morning. No problem, I thought - that's common. New doctor, new state - they want a baseline. Magnified views showed tight cluster of microcalcifications and a core biopsy was recommended and performed in October after they did an ultrasound of the right breast. The core biopsy was done and the results came back as Flat Epithelial Atypia. Since that can be found concurrently alongside higher risk lesions, they scheduled an appointment with the surgeon for an excisional biopsy. She ordered an MRI which resulted in 2 places on the left breast that had 'medium uptake with mixed washout kinetics' and one that had rapid uptake - one BIRAD 4, the other BIRAD 3. Watch and wait for 6 months. Neat. The surgery for the calcifications was done the day before Thanksgiving - no additional time off work needed and enough family and turkey to keep me distracted until the results were due back last week. No joke - they still don't have them back. They said it's been sent to another lab for additional staining and as so many of us here know - STAY OFF THE INTERNET if you hope to maintain any semblance of a normal life while waiting for results. It's absolutely awful. I have felt like a lab rat for 2 solid months now.

My follow up appointment has been rescheduled from tomorrow to Thursday in the hopes the results are back in by then. My birth mom just had a lumpectomy and starts radiation this week and my adoptive mom actually just finished chemo, radiation, lumpectomy, whole nine yards. It's been very hard to feel like "It's all precautionary" applies here when I have been surrounded by cancer for the last year. I try to keep my spirits up, but it's hard some days. Like today.

I love the idea of supporting each other through the worries and possible diagnoses. Peace and love to all of you - there is strength in numbers, ladies. Let's meditate this crap out!

XO

Gave up and called the clinic, they had the wrong contact info, but results are still not in. Told me it will likely be another 1-2 days.

Kimberlydawn0908: I agree with you that staying off the internet is a good idea. I've already made that mistake, and regret it.

Let us know once you hear, and I hope you have your answer soon.....

checking in on Deb and Breastintentions....any word?

1. Pharmgirl69 thank you no results yet the waiting is torture I think it’s going to come back b9 just the different descriptive words worry me irregular/curvilinear and some are good so at this point I’m just driving myself crazy with the what if and the sleepless nites aren’t helping thank you hoping tomorrow :

Hope it is ok if I join here.

I felt a lump about 3 weeks ago. I'm post menopausal so no hormonal fluctuations during the month. I waited a week...yep, still there. Made appt with gyn. Yes, she feels it also and makes appointment with breast specialist. She said it almost felt like a ridge. I didn't even know what that was. I had my mammo that day. It came back inconclusive. Nurse calls and gyn wants me to have another mammo and us before appt with breast specialist. I have them done. Today I have appt with breast specialist which I now know is breast surgeon....so glad I didn't realize that sooner. She does her own ultrasound. She can feel and see the lump. She says she also sees a dilated duct. I have stayed off Dr. Google so I don't know any questions to ask. I am scheduled for a biopsy the next morning. This afternoon nurse from gyn calls and tells me 2nd mammo and us are normal. By then, I had been on Dr. Google and knew to ask for BIRADS. She says 2. I tell her that I am having biopsy. So now I don't know what to think. I'm praying B9 since BIRAD 2. But, have bc in family history and lump is palpable to everyone. Gyn also did genetic testing but not back yet. Thanks for letting me vent since I can't sleep.

Just got the call. She said invasive mammary carcinoma, outside of the duct it started in. It’s in a few lymph nodes also. She also said it had “loblular?” Features. She couldn’t give me much more than that, saying the surgeon would need to speak to those issues. She’s a teacher, I won’t be able to talk with her until late this afternoon (which is why she had them call me)

I have no idea if it’s common, or agreesive or what. Her last mammogram was in June and it was clear.

I guess the good news is that she said the pathology does not suggest IBC. At least the waiting is over in a way, but it’s almost sounds like we won’t know more until after surgury? About to leave work and try to process this, i’m sick to my stom

Home from biopsy. She did core sample with ultrasound. Took 8. She said she would call me Thursday. So now the wait. This is a weird place to be. In limbo...