Don't let it get you down. Look for the positives and get support anywhere you can. If you wait until you have got the full picture it may not be as bad as it seems now. Took me a while to live with it but you will get through it with help.
Chin up! There is help out there when you need it. Wish I had asked earlier!
Hi GladitsFriday, so sorry you are in this position and alone.
You will find lots of support and company here. Most if not everyone will tell you that the waiting to find out what you are dealing with and what the treatment plan is is the awful and the worst part of the whole process. What have you had done so far and when will they give you your results and treatment plan?
Try to keep busy to stop your mind imagining the worst. What kept me from thinking about it was chatting to lots of people on here. There is a great thread called AWAKE where a lot of us post, sometimes even late at night as quite often someone is awake - hence it's name. If you need more company you can try posting there too, you will get a lovely warm welcome from ladies at different stages of their treatment and some who are now cancer free. Lots of support and helpful advice. This should be the link https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/breast-cancer-forum/f/breast-cancer-forum/128753/awake/1531964#1531964
Hi GladitsFriday its really hard at first but allow your self to grieve because it will get easier. 11 years ago I had high grade bc and got a mastectomy chemo and herceptin and Im still here and doing ok. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Sending you a bug hugxxoo
Hi Irish Ruby, it's brilliant having people like you still on here, who kicked cancer's butt so long ago and you are still here and cancer free I hope. It's people like you who have given me hope on my own journey.
Hi . Sorry to hear that you have got to go through all this.....I was diagnosed with oestrogen positive breast cancer in February 2019. I had the scans and biopsies and a bilateral mastectomy. I had chemo first, started in early April, which reduced the tumour in the left breast and obliterated it in the right one....The chemo was a bit tough, but I got through. I was 73 at the the time....I then had the surgery in September followed by radiotherapy and finished all the treatment just before Christmas 2019.....my husband who is younger than me coped very well and my sons and families were very supportive although they live a distance away.......I now just take a letrozole tablet each day which is to knock out any oestrogen and help to prevent any recurrence, which was also why I had the radiotherapy............sorry to go on a bit......soooooo, it's tough to come to terms with, and you will have some "dark" days, but you can do this. I found just taking one day at a time helped me.....not trying to overwhelm myself with it all at once.....Treatments are so good now that although you have a bit of a journey you will come through it.....try to tell yourself that it is not just you that has ever had this and thousands of women have come through with many more years to come.....It is hard to accept at the beginning, you wonder what have I done to deserve this. Don't be afraid to show your emotions. I am not the bravest person in the world so if I can do it so can you, and the support network you will have with the hospital is excellent, so girl accept the challenge and fight the good fight......love to keep in touch to follow how you get on.....xxxxx
Hi Irish Ruby, just reading your post, just been diagnosed with a small area of dcis and idc, my invasive did not show on my ultrasound but advised by consultant its small, I have chose masectomy with reconstruction, my idc is hormone positive 8/8 I am awaiting my Her. Lumpectomy was a possibility but would of needed an mri for correct sizing, and still might of had to masectomy with reconstruction. My lymph node scan was fine and I cannot still feel anything. I am thinking consultant would knowvif this was large or small from my imaging I did have an enhanced mammogram. Hugs xx
