Went in for a follow up US and was sent over for a mammogram

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edited March 2018 in Waiting for Test Results
Went in for a follow up US and was sent over for a mammogram

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  • QuartzKrystal
    QuartzKrystal Member Posts: 4
    edited March 2018

    Hi Im a 36 almost😉37 yr old mom of 2,

    Im not necessarily worried about whats to come. I am just very impatient I guess..haha. Its weird, Its like I want to be validated for noticing something was going on with my body and at the same time I want to be wrong because cancer is a beast and I really dont want my kids to be scared. I noticed during the summer that my muscles were feeling weak, my hands were getting weak. I just chalked it up to getting older. As the months went on I started getting exhausted, again I blamed my fiance for hogging the bed or blankets..lol. Then out of the blue while getting dressed in November the thought to check my armpits for lymphnodes popped in my head and sure enough I felt a big one in my left pit. My eyeballs almost popped out and I said hey what the hell is this to my fiance. He says its nothing, stop being paranoid. I waited a couple weeks to see if it changed. I finally got an appointment Dec 22 but it wasnt with my pcp. I told this Dr. everything blah blah blah and had her feel the lump. She said I cant feel anything!!! WTH its the size of a friggin lima bean! She said well make an appointment with your PCP in 2 weeks and see whatt she says. So Jan 10th I see her and she said she feels it dis blood work (all normal) and sets me up with an US for the 18th. The ultrasound said they saw 2 they were 2.6×1.4×06cm and 1.5×06×1.1cm. And to have a follow-up in 3 months. During this time I continued to feel like crap but I still pushed everyday to get things done. So being 😵me I am feeling everything just to keep track and not let anything sneak up on me. I start to notice aches, pains, tinges and keep note. A week or so before my F/U ultrasound I asked myself what a breast lump would feel like, as i felt near the left armpit and onto my breast I felt "something" it was pretty small and a different texture than the lymphnode, but still I had no idea what I was feeling for. So then I start my right breast and my heart dropped...i felt a lump for sure it was big like the lymphnode! I went in for the ultrasound and mentioned these lumps to the tech, after she measured the lymphnodes she looked at the "something" I felt. She said she was going to talk to the radiologist and when she came back she asks me if I had time today for a mammogram! At that moment I was shook! I was walked over to the mammography room and had a bunch of pictures taken like 10-15! Ugh...then they brought me into the ultrasound room again and had my right lump checked because apparently I have dense breast tissue and things are hard to see on a mammogram. So long story short...just kidding😳. Sighhh so after all that this is what the Dr came in and said...the largest left axillary lymphnode grew to 2×2.7×0.9cm and has a cortical thickness over 5mm. They also saw clusters of calcifications and that small lump in the left breast. They also saw the 2.1×1.4cm lump in the right breast. She said she thinks we should do core biopsies, 1 on the lymphnode, and 1 for each lump and then 1 stereotactic biopsy of the larger group of calcifications. Wow! That is alot to take in I thought. Like I said in the beginning I hope Im wrong, but shit, when your body is telling you something is wrong, you got to listen. I go for the biopsies on the 16th and the 19th of this month. Ugh! This waiting is annoying as hell...I know it will be even more annoying waiting for the results. Thanks for listening everyone❤

  • melmcbee
    melmcbee Member Posts: 1,119
    edited March 2018

    Hi Krystal. Just try to stay calm till you get biopsy results. Ask your doctor for something like xanax or whatever you are comfortable taking. Im sending hugs and prayers. Oh and watch out for dr google. It is outdated.

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