Oh I am so sorry, I was diagnosed yesterday with invasive breast cancer.....am also in total shock so know exactly how you feel, I have to say the service I have received up to date has been swift, I am already booked for surgery jan 3rd! They won't be able to tell me much else until they remove the tumour. This is a lovely forum and has been a god send to me. Everyone will have a different experience but when all said and done we are all in the same boat.....left feeling in a whirl....

where abouts are you? I often wonder if the protocols are the same nation wide.....

i don't have the answers but by heck it's good to talk to people who are going through the same turmoil......keep in touch.....we can kick the *** of cancer!!! Xxxxx

Hi Marlyn

Thank you for replying. I'm in Liverpool. I have still got to have ct scan and a bone scan as there is cancer in my lymph nodes. So I have got to hope and pray that it hasn't. 

I'm 41 and did not have any symptoms so everything has been a massive shock. I'm pleased that you are getting treated so quickly, I hope that I can too.

Lots of positive thoughts sending your way

Luna xxx

How did you discover it? I was watching strictly and had my hand under my arm, and as I bent over the arm of my settee to pick my knitting from the floor a hard lump pressed in the palm of my hand......the hardest bit was getting an appointment with my doctor, even though I told the receptionist I had found a breast lump all she offered me was a telephone consultation! Anyway...it's all getting sorted now....I am 53 so fall in the higher risk group......please keep checking on this forum....it's great xxxxxxx

I have been through every possible emotion in the short time since diagnosis, but this morning when I woke up I decided it was going to be a good day for me and on the whole it has. It is what it is.....yes it sucks big time but worrying and fretting won't make me feel better, I find my ( often dark) sense of humour serves me better than tears.....don't get me wrong.....I shed many of those yesterday! But this is going to be a bumpy ride for us all and I know we will be there for one another.....I am more than ready to prop you up girlie......xxxxxx

Hi Luna Muna - I'm from Liverpool, too. I've been under the Aintree Hospital. I was diagnosed with IDC and DCIS on 8th August - had loads of mammograms, scans, biopsies, MRI etc and eventually had a right breast mastectomy on 24th Sept. I was completley in shock as well. I'm 62 years old (so a fair bit older than you). My treatment and care have been fabulous. I didn't have to have chemo or radiotherapy as it hadn't managed to get to my lymph nodes (It was found early).

I'm sure you're team (whether you're at Aintree or Liverpool) will be great. It's easy for me to say, now, but try not to let it all get to you - try and put it to the back of your mind and have a good Christmas and take one day at a time. Once you have your treatment plan in place you will feel so much better. (hard to believe I know at this early stage that you're at). Treatments have 'come on' so much.

Take care.

xxx

Hi LunaMuna,

Welcome, but also sorry you've found yourself on here.

Totally understand that it seems like ages til you get seen again, the initial stages of the whole process do involve the most waiting and are some of the hardest times.  Once they get your treatment plan sorted everything will speed up and you'll wonder where the time went.

Hopefully your two lymph nodes have done their job and caught all the cells.

There are loads of us breast ladies on here and I've found them an amazing support so hopefully you will too.  Remember to take it easy on yourself, don't ask too much of yourself in terms of how long it takes for the news to settle in, just take each day as it comes, and make sure and get some non-virtual support around you so you aren't going through this alone.

Best wishes,

LJx

Hi ladies

Firstly, just want to say thank you all for your kind words. I managed to get squeezed in today for a ct scan. 

I am terrified that the test will reveal more. I ache all over and have stabbing pains. I feel like my world is imploding, everything was normal 3bmonths ago. 

Waiting for more tests and results is torture. My macmillan nurse told me it's rare for stage 2 to spread but I have a horrible feeling that I will be unlucky. 

My family is so supportive but I'm not sure that they understand my fear that it has spread.

I'm a complete wreck. And very much in need of some virtual hugs of all the lovely ladies on here.

Xxx

Hi - sending you loads and loads of love and hugs.

The waiting for results is awful - I went to my 1st appointment was on 27th July a one stop clinic, I was given the diagnosis of IDC and DCIS on 8th August and didn't have my mastectomy until 24th Sept - so in between all those dates I was having scans, biopsies and and MRI etc and there was always a 2 week wait for results between of each of the processes.

So, keep your chin up - its probably harder with it being Christmas - keep being positive if you can

I have a very supportive family as well, but they can't know the extent of our worries - but I know what you're going through and it's hard going - but I've got through it - and you will, too.

Always here if you need any advice or anything else.

Love,

Helen

Hi helen

Thank you so much for replying. I'm having such a hard time dealing with it. And not knowing all my results is excruciating. It's happened so fast, after a referral to one stop breast clinic. But now everything has slowed down.

I finished breastfeeding in the summer and this is the last thing I expected. Like everyone I suppose, it's something you thought you'd never have to deal with. 

Please keep in touch

Cara xxx