Just wanted to let you know you're still in my prayers. Stay positive!

Hi Joyce and welcome. I hope that you get all the answers when you go to the dr. and like Diana mentioned take someone with you , for when we are nervous we tend not to listen to well. I had a cancer scare last Dec. they thought I had toe cancer but thank God it was just an injury... Good luck I am sure all will be well. You will be in my prayers.

Thanks! I want my lump out as well! I told my husband I DON"T WANT IT THERE!!!! It is also tender and I get pains in my breast around the lump. I hope this is not a bad sign!

Thanks! I am trying to stay positvie, but It isn't easy. I am so scared and feel like my life is moving fast and I am on the outside looking in. Consultation with the surgeon is on December 23.........Merry Christmas to me. gee I wonder if the Biopsy will be new years!

Joyce I certainly hope all goes well at your consultation! Keep us posted. Hugs to ya!:bighug:

Thanks, I appreciate the support. I am so stressing over this!

I know you are stressing! I've had two lumps with two biopsies. It is so hard to wait to get it out. The first time I had it done, I was 27 and had to sign a consent form for a radical mastectomy, if the lump was found to be cancer. That's the way they did things back then, if it was cancer at the biopsy, they just went right ahead and took off the breast. Thankfully, it wasn't cancer and neither was the second biopsy.

They no longer do the mastectomy right away because many lumps can be treated with a lumpectomy. The best thing you can do is just not stress about it. I know that is so hard - but stress is so hard on your body in so many ways. Try to enjoy the holidays and just go on with your life right now. Stressing won't change anything at all. You have the appointment, you are going to get it taken care of, that is all you can do right now!

Easy for me to say, huh! We are all here for you!

I've had two lumps too. The first one I was in my early 30's and was really stressing. Our girls were young, and who was going to raise them if anything happened to me. Of course they still would have their dad, but they needed me. We went out of town for the weekend, and prayed that it would be nothing major. When I went back to the surgeon for a followup mammogram to locate the lump for the surgery, it was not there. There was a shadow where it had been, but the lump was gone. They couldn't figure out what happened, but just did followup mammograms.

About 3 years ago, another lump showed up on a routine mammogram. They did ultrasound, needle biopsy and got me all upset and excited again. They did a lumpectomy and it turned out to be a form of pre-cancer. They called it carcinoma, but it was not malignant. For a while I took reloxofin (sp?) for prevention of breast cancer, but it made my joints ache so much that I felt like a very elderly woman. The oncologist told me if my side effects were that bad, to stop taking it. I was getting mammograms every 6 months, but now once a year, and so far so good.

I know how scary all of this can be and how worried you can get about your future. All I can offer is a suggestion that you pray fervently for favorable results, let God take control and try to relax and enjoy the time of year. Spend some time in God's word. There is lots of encouragement there. If we love Him, he will care for us. That care may be to take us home if that's His wish, but He offers us much comfort.

My prayer for you is that it is nothing serious, just a benign bump of some kind and that you have many happy and healthy years ahead. Take care, and you are in my prayers, too.

I am so sorry you are going through this! I am praying for a good outcome.

Your still in my thoughts and prayers. I go Monday for another Mammagram.
Then if the Dense Area is still there they will do an Ultrasound. We can do this.

As time draws closer to the 23 I am getting so scared.

I'm sorry this is happening to you right here at Christmas. I wish you didn't have so long to wait. I'd be scared, too. Bless your heart!

I wish that I could be there to give you a hug. We're all here for you if you need us. I'm praying that all goes well.

broke down today
 

I was driving my puppy to the vet for her shots, and I started crying bc I was I was thinking of how attached to me she is and what would happen if I have cancer and don't live through this? Then I started thinking about my children and Grandson and it really had me overwhelmed.
I have been praying that it is nothing but I hondestly don't have a good feeling about this. I mean I continue to feel like this story keeps getting worse and worse. Now I found out how a biopsy is done and I find it rather horrid.
I read where you lie on a table with a hole in it and the affected breast goes through the hole and they put like a press around your boob and the table rises and they operate underneath you. I heard this from a girl at the gym and I didn't believe it until I read it online. There are all types of biopsys and this is the one I don't want! The Stereotactic Breast Biopsy!
I am going to tell him Heck No!! on that one.

Joyce, your mind is working overtime on this. Hugs. I know that this is hard for you.......the waiting. Don't let your "feelings" and what friends have to say upset you right now. Go take a nice hot bath with bubbles and candles.......relax and just take care of YOU for awhile. Let the worries right now just go away and be calm. This may be the calm before the storm.........or there might not be a storm at all. I'm sure that everyone has a horror story to tell........don't listen. You have to just take care of you. We're all here for you if you need us. :hug: