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Health anxiety and mammogram due today. Very nervous

belleranges
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Mum had health anxiety all her life - died of breast cancer

Dad was the opposite and died of prostate cancer.

I am a worrier like mum. I am due for a mammogram today and I am petrified. Mum's disease progression was slow and awful. It spread to her brain and she became a shell of who she was.

I've just split up after 20 year marriage and about to return to the UK after 20 years alway so not the best time to be getting diagnosed with anything.

I had results of cysts and fibroadenoma before and had a biopsy.

part of me just wants to chicken out and not go along for the mammogram. The thought of getting negative results back literally weeks before emigrate is spiralling me

  • Hi Belleranges,

    How did you get on with your mammogram? I know you were feeling rather nervous about this but I do hope you managed to attend your appointment and everything went o.k.

    If there has been anything playing on your mind since then or there was something you forgot to ask then you're welcome to talk things through with one of our cancer nurses on 0808 800 4040. Their phone lines are open Monday - Friday between 9a.m - 5p.m and they will do all they can to answer your questions and put your mind at ease.

    Our members know how tough the wait for results can be so hopefully some of them will offer their support and advice on how to get through this challenging time soon but I hope this article I've found on how to cope with waiting for news will help in the meantime.

    Fingers crossed for good news Belleranges.

    Kind regards,

    Steph, Cancer Chat Moderator

  • Offline in reply to Moderator Steph

    Thanks for the reply. It's 5am where I am and I have a follow up appointment for a further scan at 8am so not very calm. 
    After watching the horrific toll chemo and radiotherapy took on my mum I know 100% I would not ever opt for that course of action. I have nobody to support me anyway - no friends or family so I would rather choose my own exit than end up like mum did. I know that opinion makes people angry but after my mum spent 6 years losing weight, vomiting, bald, unable to walk because of nerve damage, unable to read or write because of the tumour that grew in her brain, unable to hear because of the damage from the radiotherapy to treat the brain tumour and constant never ending fear I promised myself that I would never end up in that place. She died a scared frail shadow, completely disempowered by the medical profession 

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