Alone and frightened

Hi

Sorry you've had to come and find us. Let's hope your stay is a happily short one!!! But if not, you've landed in the right spot. Assuming you can figure out the vagaries of posting!!!!

Anyways, just wanted to make sure your post didn't drift down the page and get missed.

And of course to offer a great big hug.

xx

Karen

Hi Barnowl41 welcome to the forum and I am so very sorry to hear about what has happened for  you but you have done exactly the right thing in going to the GP. They are very skilled at breast examinations and can often feel things that you and I cant always feel and again they have done exactly the right thing in referring you to the breast clinic on the 2 week referral route which means that you get seen quickly. 2 weeks may not feel quick for you but it really is in the big scheme of things.

When you go the the clinic you will be examined again by the Doctor there and may have a Mammogram which will show them what is going on. Dependant on what all that shows they may well want to do an ultrasound and to take a needle biopsy from the lump area  to check and see what it is that is lurking You will be given a local anaesthetic so you should not feel anything when they take the biopsy. Those biopsies will be sent off for testing and you will get sent for in the next week or so to get those results and to find out what the plan is if anything dependant on what they have found.

That time waiting for the results is the pits and nobody has yet come up with the perfect answer but what we do know is that keeping as busy as you can helps to make the time go quicker. 

You are not and will never be a fraud that's what this forum is about and people come on and get advice or just people to talk to in the waiting time and then they either go as they have been found to have cysts etc or they stay and go on to have surgery etc and we are here for everyone no matter what. Its a scarey time for you and you wouldn't be human if you weren't a bit scared, we can all relate to that fear so you are not alone and I am so glad that you have felt able to come in and post. Please do keep in touch and let us know how you are doing and how things develop for you.

Meantime sending some huge big hugs your way for now. xxx

you will never be alone now you've joined this site . The waiting is horrendous and we've all been there so understand xx

Hi finding a lump is one of the scariest things in your life second only to waiting for the results. Granny59 described perfectly what will happen next. Never be afraid to say how your feeling, there will always be someone on here to help advise or send virtual hugs. Please don't try and do this yourself even if it is not cancerous you will still go through an emotional roller coaster where you will need support. 

Audrey xx

Thank you so very much for your kind words, they mean such a lot Karen xxx

GRANNY59 I cant tell you just how much your post meant to me. I think it was the written version of the motherly hug that I needed and brought me to tears when I read it. Keeping strong on your own is never the easiest of things (I prefer staying strong for those close to me, ha, I can fight to the death for that). But this, is really something very different isn’t it. many thanks again xxx

Grogg and Audrey68 Thank you both. ( I sorry, I’ve just realised my relplies don’t land underneath the individual recipients message. I should have put them all in one Lesson learned) No, I will not try to do this alone, even if it means using this contact for support. The last two days of hiding have been a nightmare alone until I read your messages. I normally would attempt to tackle stuff like this on my own, but however, with this, I realise... I can’t. thank you for getting back to me, lots of love x

if that, Hi, and another welcome though sad you've needed to find your way here. 

I echo exactly what the other lovely ladies have said, an exam, a mammogram, ultra sound and biopsy if needed, then you may get an idea of what you're facing by seeing the doctor again - thats what happened to me, and I knew even then that it might possibly be a mastectomy. Even the doctor who did the ultrasound gave me an inkling. 

I hope you will be lucky and just need surgery, if that, but whatever happens, remember we are here to help comfort you and 'virtually' hold your hand through this. And when you tell your family, don't forget to tell them that any treatment you might need will have come a long, long way in the last few years! 

Hugs xxx

Tbh there is no proper way of replying on this site since upgrade .  Old version of site much more user friendly .  

I didn't tell my them 20 year old daughter I had been recalled from routine mammogram until after I had biopsy results.  She was living away at uni at the time .  She took it on her stride mainly xx