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  • Little-G
    Little-G Member Posts: 647
    edited February 2008

    Oh Shirely, no one suggested I go more either :-)  Maybe they already know what we would say!  :-)  Ya think?  I think we're just at a burnt out stage.  For myself, I just need time to re-group mentally.  Its all to much at times, and that really is the bottom line for me.  I'm not suggesting that anyone else not see their doctors.  I totally understand both sides of the fence on this one.  But I have hit a bottom and just wanted to see if I was alone out there on this, but I see I am not.  Now Shirely...get in there and get checked out!! :-)

    mke - I see your point on this as well.  And I'm sure if I got hit again with it my thoughts would probably change.  I think it also has something to do with the stage of our treatment.  And of course, the big one, our mental state.  I had a scare last year, which thankfully turned out OK, but while I was waiting I was already thinking of my plan of action if it turned out to be bad.  So..I was at a different point in my mind.  I guess I feel like maybe I am OK for now, and I just don't have the energy, or the money to go thru more testing.  I wish you the best of luck thru this.  I'm so sorry you have to go thru it again.  :-( 

    g

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008

    Little-G...LOL  Yes, dear, I do see my med onc every six months.  I go next month.  I don't have to see the other doctors (rad onc, plastic surgeon) because it is not required of me.  I didn't mean I never get checked....LOL  I haven't cancelled on any of my oncology visits YET...LOL

    And, mke, I too want to tell you how sorry I am that you are going through this AGAIN!  I've thought how would I feel knowing I would have to do chemo and all the second time.  I try to wipe that thought right out of my mind.  It's almost sickening.  And I glad your and your surgeon are being nice to each other. Smile

    Hugs

    Shirley

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  • mke
    mke Member Posts: 584
    edited February 2008

    Yikes, mammogram after bilateral mast.???  I was thinking no more mammos was the silver lining to this cloud.

    Thanks for your understanding responses.  I was afraid I seemed a bit too officious.  I surely do sympathize with being irked with appt after appt, being prodded and poked again and again.  As little G said, it all depends where you are in the process.

    Certainly at times there must be room for a breather from this. 

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited February 2008
    shirley: i see my dentist as well.  i wonder if i could get him to examine my breasts and eliminate a trip to the breast surgeon.
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  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited February 2008

    I also never went back to the rad onc.  He was a nice guy & all, but it didn't make sense to me to see him a year out.  It's now been almost two years since the rads.  I also don't have a med once because I didn't do chemo nor hormone therapy.  My PCP kept saying I should see the surgeon, but hasn't come up with a valid reason why, so, I haven't seen her either. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008

    "shirley: i see my dentist as well.  i wonder if i could get him to examine my breasts and eliminate a trip to the breast surgeon. "

    Good.     I'm sure he would be delighted to check your breast. Laughing

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  • Little-G
    Little-G Member Posts: 647
    edited February 2008

    Here's maybe a dumb question, but do they only request that you see your breast surgeon if you've had a mastecomy?  I had a lumpectomy and I seen my breast surgeon once after it to look at the scare, and thats it.  They never said come back. 

    g

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  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited February 2008

    Hi g,

    I was the same as you - I saw the surgeon once after the second excision and that was it.  It didn't make sense to me to see her again, but my PCP wanted me to go back to her.  I didn't because he couldn't come up with a logical reason why. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008

    I had a mast and no one has suggested that I see my surgeon.  My surgery was in 2005.

    Shirley

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited February 2008

    i had a lumpectomy in september '06.  i've seen my breast surgeon i think twice since then.  last time she did an ultrasound on my breast herself.

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