OT: what is the usual procedure if you find a lump in your breast?
Being a two time breast cancer survivor this was what happened to me. Went for my usual mammogram, doctor *****ad my mammogram saw something schedule to do a biopsy. Report was sent to my gyn, she gave me a surgeon to see. My surgeon did a lumpectomy on the left side (twice - had to clear the margins the second time meaning cancer cells were still to close to the edge). Then was given an oncologist to see who went over my reports. Due to the size of my tumor did chemo for 6 months and then radiation for 31 treatments.
My second bout of breast cancer was found 1 year ago via mammogram and MRI. Doctor *****ad my mammogram saw something scheduled a sonogram, which the sonogram did not pick up anything, he then had me do an MRI. MRI picked up the small tumor, doctor did an MRI biopsy and came back malignant. Saw the same surgeon did a lumpectomy. But, due to how small this tumor was chemo was not needed but did do 31 treatments of radiation.
The best thing to do is get a mammogram done, insist on it with your pcp.
Hope everything works out for you and you will be in my prayers. If you want any additional information or have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Take care, Toni
My second bout of breast cancer was found 1 year ago via mammogram and MRI. Doctor *****ad my mammogram saw something scheduled a sonogram, which the sonogram did not pick up anything, he then had me do an MRI. MRI picked up the small tumor, doctor did an MRI biopsy and came back malignant. Saw the same surgeon did a lumpectomy. But, due to how small this tumor was chemo was not needed but did do 31 treatments of radiation.
The best thing to do is get a mammogram done, insist on it with your pcp.
Hope everything works out for you and you will be in my prayers. If you want any additional information or have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Take care, Toni
Not to make light of your situation by any means, but when I read the subject line this is what popped into my head from my own personal experience.
1. You stand half naked in the lighted bedroom with the blinds drawn. Shirt and bra removed, your chest is exposed. You face front and examine the image in the mirror. You note your hair color, you see that your eyebrows need shaping, you note that you have a few more wrinkles than you like. Your eyes fall onto your shoulder and you smile at seeing your collar bones. Then your eyes fall upon your breasts. You turn to the side and you look at your profile. You think "Sad saggy boobies" and how even though they look bad you cannot imagine not having them. You lift up one boob and you put your hand over it and press it against your chest wall and try to imagine what you will look like with one boob. You wonder how you will survive without your boobs. You wonder, will I still feel like a woman? You curse at your body for betraying you and making you worry. Tears well up in your eyes.
2. You grab the other boob and gently examine it. You press it against the wall of your chest. You open the drawer and find an ace bandage and you bind your boobs tightly and then you put on a shirt to see how you would look without the familiar bumps on your chest. You tell yourself that you are being silly and ridiculous as you rip off the shirt and unwrap the ace bandage as quickly as you can. You sit on the edge of the bed and wonder "will I survive?" Calmer now you stand back up and you put both hands back over your breasts and you talk to them. They are your friends. They have been with you since you were 10-12ish. What you say to them doesn't matter. You cry a little more. You imagine the scar lines you will have under your arms to the middle of your chest and think, this is how I will look. I will look like a man.
3. Then you look down at your boobies again and a smile will creep over your lips as two words pops into your head "Plastic Reconstruction"
4. You grab your shirt and go to your computer and start gosogling plastic surgeon and post op boob reconstruction patients and you say to your boobs.... Sorry Chickas, you've been replaced with new perky boobs.
5. No longer do you worry about the boobs. You're gonna get new ones in the end. You start looking into pretty bras and thinking about what size boobs you want.
6. You go to the doctors and he tells you "not to worry." because that lump isn't malignant but a cyst and your curse yourself for being so melodramatic and on the way out the door you curse him because you are not going to get new boobies, but you don't really care. You take your perscription to the pharmacy and you fill it and for the next 10 days you take the medication and you feel the lump growing smaller.
To tell you not to worry is a waste of breath. You will worry until you know more. It's the not knowing that is the killer.
You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Maddie
1. You stand half naked in the lighted bedroom with the blinds drawn. Shirt and bra removed, your chest is exposed. You face front and examine the image in the mirror. You note your hair color, you see that your eyebrows need shaping, you note that you have a few more wrinkles than you like. Your eyes fall onto your shoulder and you smile at seeing your collar bones. Then your eyes fall upon your breasts. You turn to the side and you look at your profile. You think "Sad saggy boobies" and how even though they look bad you cannot imagine not having them. You lift up one boob and you put your hand over it and press it against your chest wall and try to imagine what you will look like with one boob. You wonder how you will survive without your boobs. You wonder, will I still feel like a woman? You curse at your body for betraying you and making you worry. Tears well up in your eyes.
2. You grab the other boob and gently examine it. You press it against the wall of your chest. You open the drawer and find an ace bandage and you bind your boobs tightly and then you put on a shirt to see how you would look without the familiar bumps on your chest. You tell yourself that you are being silly and ridiculous as you rip off the shirt and unwrap the ace bandage as quickly as you can. You sit on the edge of the bed and wonder "will I survive?" Calmer now you stand back up and you put both hands back over your breasts and you talk to them. They are your friends. They have been with you since you were 10-12ish. What you say to them doesn't matter. You cry a little more. You imagine the scar lines you will have under your arms to the middle of your chest and think, this is how I will look. I will look like a man.
3. Then you look down at your boobies again and a smile will creep over your lips as two words pops into your head "Plastic Reconstruction"
4. You grab your shirt and go to your computer and start gosogling plastic surgeon and post op boob reconstruction patients and you say to your boobs.... Sorry Chickas, you've been replaced with new perky boobs.
5. No longer do you worry about the boobs. You're gonna get new ones in the end. You start looking into pretty bras and thinking about what size boobs you want.
6. You go to the doctors and he tells you "not to worry." because that lump isn't malignant but a cyst and your curse yourself for being so melodramatic and on the way out the door you curse him because you are not going to get new boobies, but you don't really care. You take your perscription to the pharmacy and you fill it and for the next 10 days you take the medication and you feel the lump growing smaller.
To tell you not to worry is a waste of breath. You will worry until you know more. It's the not knowing that is the killer.
You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Maddie
HW (pre RNY) 430 / HW (pre DS) 302 / SW 288 /
Lowest weight 157 / CW 161 / GW 150
"I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight"
Most likely your PCP will order a mamogram. If something suspicious shows up, you will get a biopsy. I had my biopsy by a Dr. at the center where I had my mamogram. If there are Cancer cells, your PCP will send you to a surgeon.
My surgeon rushed me along. I had CA in both breasts, only one showed up on the mamogram, an MRI picked up the other. My CA was not able to be felt.
I was diagnosed in Sept, had Surgery in October, had a second surgery to get clear margins, started radiation in January. My head was spinning from the fast track and multiple biopsies and surgeries. It is all a big blur now.
Good luck, hopefully it is benign.
My surgeon rushed me along. I had CA in both breasts, only one showed up on the mamogram, an MRI picked up the other. My CA was not able to be felt.
I was diagnosed in Sept, had Surgery in October, had a second surgery to get clear margins, started radiation in January. My head was spinning from the fast track and multiple biopsies and surgeries. It is all a big blur now.
Good luck, hopefully it is benign.
Phyllis
"Me agreeing with you doesn't preclude you from being a deviant."
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