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How did you feel?Did you find your lump? were you tired ? did you feel like something had changed like you used to be able to work full time and even a part time job 1 day a week and have energy and now you can't . or did u feel depressed or did u feel like u had two feel of pain in your breast .Did your breast feel tender all the time like you didn't want your husband to touch them . weight loss weight gain. Any changes before you diagnosis . Discharge or even dimpling or puckering.. Ease share… read more
I went in for a routine mammogram June 12th 2015.. I received a call June 15th that I needed to go back for more imaging just to be sure and that I would have an answer before I left that day. I went back June 19th for more imaging, they then moved me to the ultrasound room. My radiologist felt that an ultrasound was needed. After the ultrasound my radiologist felt that a biopsy was also needed and did I want to do it that day. I said yes and we proceeded with the biopsy. After talking with my radiologist I asked what she thought and she said I think you have a 4mm cancer and we don't find 4mm cancers (meaning that they do not find them this small very often). Was on pins and needles until June 23rd when I got the call that the biopsy was positive, I had cancer. I went for an MRI June 29th. July 1st I met with my surgeon and after talking about my options I chose lumpectomy and intraoperative radiation I was diagnosed with Stage 1 invasive ductal carcinoma.. Met with radiation oncologist July 10th and it was decided that I was a candidate for intraoperative radiation (one big dose radiation given in the operating room. certain criteria have to be met to qualify for this type of radiation). I had a lumpectomy, sentinel node biopsy and intraoperative radiation July 31st 2015 (nodes were clean). I then met with my oncologist September 30th and started Tamoxifen October 2nd. I am now 15 months cancer free. Prior to being diagnosed there were no symptoms, no family history and lump could not be felt. I feel BLESSED that mine was caught so early and my journey easier than most. What gets to me is that I skipped my mammogram in 2014. What if I had done my mammogram in 2014 and skipped it in 2015 , there is a chance I would not be here right now. Will NEVER skip another one.
Bless you. I too don't think I will miss having a mammogram again. It would be too nerve wracking.
And yes I know duct ecstacia isn't cancer.
@A MyBCTeam Member I won't know what I have until I get the lumpectompy and the send it out for pathology
Had Stage IIA, no symptoms. Turned up on mammogram; it was hard for me to find even after I knew what it was.
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