Hi everyone, I found a lump in my armpit a month ago and GP referred to the breast clinic where I had 2 US scans, 2 mammograms (1 magnifying), and 3 core biopsy samples taken. In the mammos they found microcalcifications and a 'blob', so asked me to come back for more US guided core biopsies, and a stereotactic core biopsy. Biopsies for the armpit lump thankfully came back as nothing bad (though they gave me the wrong person's results first without checking my name...). I had the biopsies, which I had been dreading, but had asked my doc for some valium to take the edge off and they weren't pleasant, but weren't horrible either. They took 12 samples in total. I've had a letter to say that my results appt has been put back, which means I'll be waiting a month. The waiting us awful. I'll feel fine one minute then so scared and vulnerable the next. I have to stay lucid for work but find it so hard to focus. I feel like I'm in limbo, I can't/won't make plans. I'm also perimenopausal and suffering mentally, and coping with my eldest son leaving for uni and miss him. Oh poor me. How do people cope with the waiting on top of all the other life stuff that keeps going on? I just want to sleep all the time and not face the world, but my family and job stop me doing that thankfully. Thanks for reading :)
