Topic: Update re "found a lump" 10-16-09
- Posted on: Oct 27, 2009 08:46 pm
Posts: 5
Sorry I haven't updated but the parts of my life that AREN'T the stupid lump have been keeping me busy. Thank you to everyone who responded. I suppose in a way, the mere act of writing helped me to deal with the fear and not checking back kept me from worrying or thinking about it because I could pretend there was nothing going on.
But the update: So I went to the doctor on Monday. She thought it was a cyst but sent me for a mammogram and an ultra sound.
Wouldn't you know it, it was a cyst 
---showed up all black on the ultrasound. And they said that it probably collapsed and that I probably had one before and never noticed.
Yippee right? Well not exactly. 
When they did the mammogram, they did both breasts and they found little calcifications in the left breast . . .The radiologist already double checked and had them do an enlargement and they are definitely there and so I am in the process of scheduling a needle biopsy in the next week or two. . . . he gave me the speech about how they usually turn out benign but sometimes are malignant and i stood there thinking about how the doctor said that about the thyroid lump and so I shouldn't be worried but honestly, it would be nice to go through life without growing stupid useless lumps.
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Momcat1962 Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 111 |
Oct 27, 2009 10:21 pm
Momcat1962 wrote:
Omgosh...I am SO SICK OF LUMPS! (Almost 20 yrs worth of , 'Is it or is it not???'...) I go for a diagnostic (again...just had one in June) on Thursday for 2 MORE lumps my GYN found last week. I will keep a happy, B9 thought for you with some prayers tucked in, too!! |
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Fidelia Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 47 |
Oct 27, 2009 10:33 pm Fidelia wrote: Great news 3monstmama! It is a shared blessing when something turns out to be B9 fingers crossed for the micros - in all probability they TOO will be B9 - I had a spate of micro calcification in the left breast - which NEVER developed cancer - it was the right one which betrayed me!!! and Momcat1962 - I seem to have spent most of my life worrying about lumps and being anxious and being dismissed as anxious and now being treated for Stage IV - as the comic says - ' I TOLD' them it was something - I really wish it weren't - you DO get sick of the constant worry and once diagnosed everything is significant....bummer! |
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3monstmama Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 |
Nov 4, 2009 07:50 pm
3monstmama wrote:
Thanks. It is looking like it may be nothing---the appointment is set for 9am which has me coming in early so they can do another mamgram because the one they have isn't clear enough. They said there is a chance that they will decide against a biopsy depending on the mamgram.. ..... |