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  • Sarah_78
    Sarah_78 Member Posts: 137
    edited September 2021

    Hi everyone,

    just created an account a few days ago and lurked a bit. I am waiting for my biopsy results. According to radiologist, my oncologist and gynaecologist who took the samples, it doesn't look good, but trying to think positive until pathology results come back.

    I am not a stranger to the C word, since in 2011 I was treated for Hodgkin's Lymphoma 2A with 4 cycles ABVD and involved field radiotherapy. The lump I have right now is up, middle, right, is right at the border of that field. It is a very big lump (5cm+), which came out in 1 day some months ago and didn't change size as much as I could tell by poking it, so I ignored it for a while, waited for semester to be over since I am working as a professor in a university and I am fed up with cancer delaying my life. Sorry a bit of a rant here, I was 33 when Hodgkin's was diagnosed and I got biopsied right before my wedding, got the results one day after the wedding, you can imagine how hard was it for me to dance during it with all the anxiety. Now at 43, right when my research started to take off, life seems like having other plans for me.

    Back to the topic, the punch biopsy was done on Wednesday (2 days ago) and it was on the breast lump as well as 2 lymph nodes that looked suspicious under my arm. The doctor who performed it wanted to already stage me, full body CT, bone scan etc, but I told him I'd rather wait for the diagnosis. Probably just need a week off from all this during my vacation, hope I don't regret the decision.

    I will report back about what it is. I'd like to thank the moderators who seem to maintain a very active board here. I know such forums are so helpful. Last time I had great support at a Lymphoma Forum, if this one comes out as BC, I am planning to actively share it with you.

    Cheers,

    Sarah

  • Creekgirl
    Creekgirl Member Posts: 1
    edited October 2021

    A week ago I discovered a tender, small, pea size firm lump in my left breast. I thought it might be scar tissue because it's in the exact same place I had a cyst removed many years ago. My OB-GYN checked Thursday and said it wasn't scar tissue or a cyst. He did a fine needle aspiration and sent it to a lab.


    I didn't hear the results yesterday, but should on Monday. I'm trying not to worry, but what are the odds of having something in the very same place? It wasn't cancer last time. It's even more sore now because of the needle, of course. But is it weird to have a lump there after so many years?

  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited October 2021

    Creekgirl, it's really hard to say. We're pleased to hear your doctor was able to quickly do a biopsy for you, though of course sorry you are in discomfort. Please keep us posted and we're here for you, regardless of what they find.


  • Janvi
    Janvi Member Posts: 1
    edited October 2021

    yes , i can understand it is very stressing what will be the result

  • Rayven71
    Rayven71 Member Posts: 1
    edited January 2022

    Well I'm fixing to have my mammogram done. Doctor's had found my lymph nodes are swollen under my arm left side and I have a hard lump under the nipple area and a lot of discharge and blood so they decided I need a mammogram because of my family history of having four of my dad's sisters passed away from breast cancer they did not win the fight 😪. On that and on top of it I have lupus and I had cancer at 21 and they did a full hysterectomy and some chemotherapy and so mentally I'm a mess and my stomach's got butterflies and I'm scared maybe I just needed something like hope, I feel that there are other's here going through the same thing as I am, of so please contact me,

    Need a friend

  • DakotaN
    DakotaN Member Posts: 1
    edited February 2022

    I'm glad I found a site that can accommodate my needs. I had two mammograms. They show SOMETHING there in black on my right breast. That was a few weeks ago. Now I'm waiting impatiently for the next step, which for me is the ultrasound. That is on Thursday. I have been reading up on cancer and treatments, trying to prepare myself for anything that comes along.


  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited February 2022

    Welcome, DakotaN. We're sorry you find yourself here with this worry! The waiting can be so hard. Please keep us posted on your ultrasound, hoping for benign results for you!

    The Mods

  • ness7432
    ness7432 Member Posts: 11
    edited May 2022

    I also had my diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound, need two biopsies next week and the week after. All my reports were in my patient portal...literally every doctors visit or test result posts in there even if not part of my primary because they can be linked. Maybe ask your doctors office if they have a portal you can register for to get results faster? Problem is when I have a test done, I refresh my portal like 150 times a minute until the test shows up lol. I understand the waiting game its where I am at right now, and also trying to decipher everything said. Its overwhelming. I also noticed something weird with my right nipple too after the fact, both sides need a biopsy but the left side was actually described as a non-circumscribed hypoechoic mass. The right side couldn't be found well enough on u/s so I am getting the left side biopsied with u/s and the right biopsied using a mammo machine to guide the doctor. I tend to like to prepare for the worst rather than hope for the best so I just want to know what I'm dealing with. Best of luck to you.

  • Mavericksmom
    Mavericksmom Member Posts: 635
    edited July 2022

    I NEVER thought I would be writing here again!

    My story in a nutshell: 2003 Dx IDC, treated at local hospital. What could go wrong did, but in the end, I survived and thrived!

    In December of 2018, I was Dx with ILC, treated at a cancer hospital.

    After almost three years, I decided to see if I could do my follow up maintenance at our local hospital, the drive to the city no longer seemed necessary. So I went through the process of transferring my records and getting disks of my imagining back to my local hospital. I was two months past my one year mammogram due date, but not at all concerned about that. Last week I saw the new breast surgeon. I really like this doctor, he is everything one looks for in a breast surgeon and his staff is wonderful! He gave me my mammogram script and a referral to an oncologist as well as a plastic surgeon who does lymph node transfers. (I have lymphedema in my one arm) I didn't see the plastic surgeon, but I had my mammogram and saw the oncologist.

    Well, the mammogram didn't go as expected. I thought I would be in and out in very little time, after all, I only have one real breast left! Nope, I needed more views and then the radiologist told me I need a biopsy, which I am having this week. Birads 4. Ugh.

    Now I am no newbie, so I know all too well that the chances of being benign are high, but that never, in my experience, has knowing this lessened the worry factor. This time, my third with the other two times being positive for cancer, I am hopeful, but have an open mind to the possibility of another positive outcome. I never thought I would get a positive result either of the two times prior. This time, I WILL NOT BE BLINDSIDED.

    I saw the films and I saw the area of pleomorphic calcification that was not there last year. I know I either have a benign condition, in which case I will go back to my regular monitoring, or it is likely DCIS. Because I was refused a double mastectomy at the cancer hospital I went to, and my new breast surgeon told me he would have recommended that due to my cancer and family history, I would definitely go for a second mastectomy. Either way, I feel pretty good about either scenario. Benign is Benign! No worries! And DCIS, would remove a breast I never wanted to keep without need of radiation or lymph node biopsy! That said, mastectomy or any treatment, is never easy, and it would make things less than ideal with my job! To be honest, I am more concerned about the financial aspect of a positive diagnosis, than I am about having a positive result.

    Being a firm believer that things don't always work out the way that we want them to, I will deal with whatever lies ahead of me, and tackle it with gusto!

    That said, WAITING FOR TEST RESULTS IS DEFINITELY THE WORST PART OF BREAST CANCER!


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