Anyone else exhausted from the stress of all the waiting?

Same here and I've only been waiting 5 days. I found out last week I have to go for a biopsy. That's scheduled for 7/8. I'm tired, getting stress headaches and I'm very on edge. Can't concentrate and have little patience for anything or anyone. Hang in there. It's definitely not just you.

I am here with you and I understand the stress and anxiety you are going through! Plus I’m a bit obsessive and find myself researching the initial biopsy findings which only gives me more anxiety. I’m a working mom too with a mom who had breast cancer. I’m terrified right now of what the finding will be on my excisional biopsy. I hope everything is ok for you

Oh man, I have been waiting since February for a diagnosis! Every time I think I am about to get an answer, they tell me I need something else. I have done two ultrasounds, a mammo, a core needle biopsy and a lumpectomy and I still don't know what it is. I go back on the 3rd and maybe then I will have an answer?!

It really helps to deliberately go out and have FUN. I went to an awesome concert the night after my biopsy. I barely remember the biopsy a year later, but I definitely remember the concert. All through tests, doctor's appointments, and surgeries over four or five months, I'd balance medical stuff with fun - afternoons at a park, day trips, even a few multi-day trips. It helps a lot at the time, and even more when looking back, so it's not just all grim crap in your memories of this year. It also helps your families.

the wait is grilling. I was diagnosed on June 13 but still don’t know what stage I am in and have an appointment with the surgeon on 5 July. I was so scared that it might have spread and that’s why I told my family doctor to get me a referral for ct scan of lung, abdomen and pelvis. The ct scan of lung is clear and I am still waiting for the others. My mri am ultrasound had showed little skin thickening and I have little peel de orange symptoms but I showed to many doctors and they don’t feel it’s inflammatory. I just forced my family doctor to get me a skin punch biopsy as she said there is no need but I still made her do that. I am still waiting for the results. My brotheri is an oncologist and he feels it’s because of local lymphatic blockage and not inflammatory and thus i am keeping positive positive as i am already diagnosed with ID

i had a 4 week wait from my diagnostic to the biopsy, which was today. It was absolutely draining, I'm sure from the stress which resulted in trouble sleeping too. Over that first hurdle, now the wait for results!

Alice I really like your response. I’ve been debating planning some fun things and you’re right - just go do it! Why just have depressing memories?! I love the reminder, and will be thankful for your words when I’m off on a getaway this weekend now!

I thought my "waiting" days were over. I had an issue with my bladder last fall. Doctor did a cystoscopy and it showed a mass, but he never saw anything like it before. He thought it was something pushing in on my bladder and tried to fill my bladder as full as possible to lift it off of the bladder. He did an abdominal CT prior which showed nothing. He told me to repeat the cystoscopy in 6 months. That was before I was diagnosed in Dec with ILC. Because of all the cancer treatment issues, I rescheduled my cystoscopy from April to June. My June appt was canceled by the doctor and rescheduled for last week.

I had the procedure. This time prior to it I had a bladder ultrasound, also negative. I also had CT scan done for my cancer which said bladder looked normal. But, he saw the same growth! He kept repeating that he never saw anything like that before. Once again he tried filling the bladder and lifting it off. Once again it didn't work. He kept saying he didn't know if he should just leave it alone or biopsy it. He left it alone. I have an appointment in 4 weeks.

I asked him if he thought it could be a lipoma because last fall when I researched bladder growths I saw a picture from a cystoscopy that looked just like mine. It also said they are extremely rare, which could explain why he never saw anything like it. He said it wasn't a lipoma and went into a long explanation to which I just listened.

After all I have gone through with the ILC, this is becoming super stressful. I can't imagine it could be a growth if nothing showed up on 2 CT scans or the bladder ultrasound. I wanted a copy of the procedure report but the woman at the hospital medical records dept said the doctor had not signed off on it. She said she will mail me a copy of it as soon as he signs off on it. One week later, still no report. I am feeling sooooo stressed! I just want to know what it is so I can move on. I don't think it can be cancer, but that is what I thought about my ILC biopsy. I was convinced that after 15 1/2 years I would never get BC again and yet I did. Ugh.

And so the waiting continues...….