Treatment finished, new lump, new biopsy

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I had my lumpectomy in July and finished the radiotherapy in November. I have been ill throughout with shingles, chest infection, sickness bugs, even had a colonoscopy in the middle of the radiotherapy. I've put it down to a low immune system as soon as I've recovered from one thing, I get another. I found another lump a month ago, they tried to treat it with antibiotics in case it was a cyst and infected but that didn't work. I went back to the consultant yesterday and shocked to be told it needs more investigations, it was scanned again, to be told it needs a biopsy, which was done straight away. They don't know what it it is but it's not going away by itself.

Now it's the waiting game for results, my mind is racing. Is it nothing? Is it back? Has it spread?

Has anyone else been through this so soon after completing treatment and how on earth did you cope as right now I'm a mess.

Grogg over 3 years ago

At my first year mammogram I had a cyst underneath my breast. It looked like an angry boil, At my third annual mammogram they did a biopsy of my good breast. It came back a week later fine but they repeated the mammogram to be sure. This year, year 6, recalled after mammogram. Again given all clear eventually they were just be ultra careful which they said they are will all patients who have been treated. Each time anxiety soared.

Moco over 3 years ago

Hi Nora, sorry you have to go through this again soon. I understand completely how you feel as I completed my treatment (lumpectomy, radiotherapy and Anastrozole) for my right breast in September and then I found a lump in my other breast in October and I’m going through the process again. That waiting every time is torture but until those results come back we just don’t know so if you can find something or do something that can distract you a bit. - easier said than done - and I hope your results come back fine but if they don’t then it’s better for it to be getting treatment. Take care x

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