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  • kjbell
    kjbell Member Posts: 454
    edited June 2010

    I had repeat pics and an ultrasound after mri lit up, and doc thinks it lit up because of the surgery 6 months earlier from the lift. Bless all of you waiting for results and I hope the best for everyone here. The stress from tests is unbearable!!!

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    Congrats Vision!

    So, yesterday I had a cardiologist appointment and he told me all was ok for my hip surgery. Great! Then I went for my annual mammo and ultrasound....not great. They found a nodule with calcifications. Small and very deep into the breast. I am having a biopsy this coming Tuesday.

    From there I go to my PCP to get cleared for the hip surgery and get the reults of the ultrasound she had done on my carotid arteries....no surgery..they postponed it...70% blockage in one of the carotids. have to go to vascular surgeon this coming Wednesday. all in one day this happened!! wow, I had to eat a couple of xanax!!!

    So, if you all don't mind I am planting myself here to wait....I need you all !! I can't do this without you.

    hugs and prayers,

    Candie

  • vision4utoo
    vision4utoo Member Posts: 17
    edited June 2010

    Yikes Candie ~ you are in my prayers  I know it is hard not to worry over tests and procedures - I wish you peace for the weekend - and pray for wonderful results!  Hang in there!  Good for you Kbell!  Thanks Tricia! The relief was emotional - I cried and hadn't even realized I was nervous or stressed about it.  No docs for me for at least another year - except dentist - anyone else having trouble with teeth after chemo?

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    thanks Vision!!

  • debbie6122
    debbie6122 Member Posts: 2,935
    edited June 2010

    ((((((((((candie)))))))))))))) Sorry you are going thru this, You have gone thu so much all ready, I keeping you in my thoughts and prayers qne will be here to hold your hand

    Vision- It seems like a lot of woman here had problems with there teeth, including me, it has been in the back of my mind for some time now wondering if there is a link between bc and teeth, meaning teeth can be a link to heart disease and maybe to bc too I wonder if there has been a study on it????

  • rsben70
    rsben70 Member Posts: 12
    edited June 2010

    Had my physical monday first one with primary since finishing chemo, having surgery and radiation and what happens she finds a lump, so off i go to have a mammogram and ultrasound.  Findings a solid mass, suggest biopsy, that will be Monday 6/14 @ 730am.

  • TriciaK
    TriciaK Member Posts: 124
    edited June 2010

    Candie, RSben,

     Holding you both in my prayers, hang in there as we're all here for you:)

    ((((hugs)))0

    Tricia xx

  • lottie
    lottie Member Posts: 160
    edited June 2010

    just checking in and sending hugs and prayers to all. i'm in a holding pattern waiting to see my surgeon on 6/23 to check on the lump in my remaining breast -- some may recall that this lump was invisible on mammogram, ultrasound and MRI, but, it's there ... If a biopsy is called for, I'm wondering if the surgeon will just go by feel? There's nothing to guide her like last year when they inserted a clip during ultrasound-guided biopsy. One breast is already gone, I wonder how much tissue this biopsy will take? I'm praying for a B9 cyst of course, but preparing for the worst regardless. Anyone had a biopsy without the benefit of imaging?

    best to all

    Lottie

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    Lottie, good luck with your biopsy this week,same for you Rsben. Lets hold hands for comfort and support. May we all have a B9 result!!!

    Thanks, Debbie for your repsponse

    hugs and prayers

  • nene2059
    nene2059 Member Posts: 53
    edited June 2010

    Ladies I am coming back in to the waiting room.  I was here a few months ago when I found a lump on one of my reconstructed foobs.  It turned out to be scar tissue and is now gone, gone, gone (or at least moved and I can't feel it anymore).  Now I am having rib pain which I may have been having for a while and am just now feeling more.  Tender spot with occassional shooting pain directly under foob. Saw BS on Friday and he said it is most likely costochondritis and not to worry but he ordered a bone scan for Tuesday.  UGH!  I hate scans and tests.  I just had my one year anniversary of my last chemo treatment and June 30 will be my one year from BMX with expander recon.  I thought that at least for a little while I could live in denial and act like it never happened.  I was starting to enjoy throwing on a cute little sundress with no bra and no sag..lol.  I am trying to keep the worry in check but it is difficult.  I know that it could be this costo whatever but it could also be something far more sinister.  Please give me any experiences you have had with this type of pain and it was caused by all of the surgery (my implant exchange was Dec.) or something else. I am sending all of the positive energy and prayers to all of you stuck in the waiting room as well.  Thanks.

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    Nene, I have never had rib pain but I wait here with you as you go through the bone scan.

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited June 2010

    Candie, Lottie and rsben - good luck on our procedures.  I hope you get good news!!! 

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited June 2010

    Nene - good luck on the bone scan!!! 

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    Thanks Kittycat!

  • vision4utoo
    vision4utoo Member Posts: 17
    edited June 2010

    Lottie, Rsbn70 and Candie - Praying for B9 results!  My lumpectomy was really easy this time if any consolation...

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    THANKS...CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO BE OVER, I GO TOMORROW MORNING

  • lottie
    lottie Member Posts: 160
    edited June 2010

    Thanks for the good wishes everyone!

  • debbie6122
    debbie6122 Member Posts: 2,935
    edited June 2010

    Candie- Sending good thoughts and prayers for B9 results tomorrow- ((((((((hugs))))))))))

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    thanks Debbie

    hold my hand girls..going for biopsy this morning

    hugs and prayers

  • TriciaK
    TriciaK Member Posts: 124
    edited June 2010

    Huge luck and positve thoughts Candie, Rsbn70 and lottie and all awaiting tests right now

    I know it's not easy but hang in there ladies and know we're all here for you)

    Love

    Tricia

  • nene2059
    nene2059 Member Posts: 53
    edited June 2010

    Just popping back in to give some more good news to the "waiting room".  Bone scan today and all was clear!!! Sometimes I guess pain is just pain and our bodies have been through so much that I guess we should remember to be gentle with them.  Hugs to all and best of luck to all that are waiting and testing.

  • debbie6122
    debbie6122 Member Posts: 2,935
    edited June 2010

    Nene- great news on the all clear scans, makes me not so anxious on my aches and pains!

    Hope all is well with candie, lottie and rsbn-

  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 2,604
    edited June 2010

    weetie&tricia.. i had an endoscopy, got dx. hiatial hernia errosive duaduem, and something else, i cant remember right now. glad to hear dont need hernia oper. neccesarily..colonoscopy showed 3 polops she removed, waiting for path. i was sched. for cat scan w/ barrium 2day..interesting...i have a HUGE tummy..have lost 5 lbs. recently, and am 4" !! around middle. last ultrasound says gas and stool duhh..anyway, i got 1/2 way thru scan 2 day, and they stopped. Barrium didnt travel thru intestine to transverse colon, first, 20 min, then 40, then 60. Finally. not normal tech was clear they were looking for cancer. thank you, but he wouldnt (couldnt) give me any answers. just hope my FIL who is retired m.d. says chemo obviously shut down peristalisis, hes right..not well said, hope u understand that one. hope gi agrees 2 see me before the wkend to tell me whats up... Hey, Tricia, do we have a common friend named Bill?  letcha know soon, ladies!  thanks for your ears...light and love,    3jaysmom

  • GoldenEyes
    GoldenEyes Member Posts: 22
    edited June 2010

    Any word from Candie ladies?

  • lottie
    lottie Member Posts: 160
    edited June 2010

    Just checking in ladies. My biopsy isn't even scheduled yet. I return to the surgeon a week from today to locate the lump again (it's deep inside the outside of my left breast) and hopefully schedule an excisional biopsy. I think I mentionned that this lump didn't show on mammogram, ultrasound or MRI, but it sure is there ... Hopefully in one week I will have a game plan for biospy. The wait is driving me bonkers.

    Best to all

    Lottie

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    Golden Eyes..her I am

    Nene,congrats..so glad scan was ok

    3jaysmom, hope all is well

    Lottie, waiting stinks.But we are waiting here with ya.

    Thanks for all your good thoughts.

    I had the biopsy yesterday.She could only get 2 pieces cause she lost it on the ultrasound. Says it is so small. I willo have results on Friday.

    Today I went to vascular surgeon. Sending me for CT scan w/.contrast on Friday to be sure what ultrasound says is right. If it is 70% or more blocked then I have to have surgery.If not, then he will keep an eye on it and treat it with medication and I can go ahead and have the hip surgery!!!

    hugs and prayers,

    Candie

  • kittycat
    kittycat Member Posts: 1,155
    edited June 2010

    Candie - you have a lot going on - scans and then a hip surgery!  Sending you big hugs from Las Vegas!!!!!! 

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    thanks kittycat.....I am trying to keep in a positive mode.....I see by your stats that u have had this beast twice in less than a year..hugs to you!  If I have it this time, the Dr thinks it would be a stage 0

  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 2,467
    edited June 2010

    ok..I got a call about the biopsy..preliminary report says it is probably benign..will have complete report in a week. wait some more!!

  • TriciaK
    TriciaK Member Posts: 124
    edited June 2010

    Hi all,

     3jaysmom,  yep...I think we both know Bill lol:)   Good news for you so far i think and similar to what I had. I was told the anti nausea caused this???  So why did'nt they give me a prevantative i ask myself???  :)

    Candie, good to hear it's looking good for you too:)

     Lottie, I'm praying you too will have good news, everything crossed for you but know patience is a virtue with these tests grrr....

    Love

    Tricia xx

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