Cancer Scare?

and john will chime in in 5,4,3,2,1.........

 

sorry to hear that Karen, I hope all goes well. your in my prayers tonight...

 

karen im sure you will be fine. i will say a prayer for you. i had melenoma 3 yrs ago and beat it.

 

Karen, more than likely it's a calcium deposit - which doesn't seem to unreasonable considering your dedication to health... Go to the appointment, though...! Don't put it off... Let us know how everything turned out, though i could practically tell you now that it's nothing...

 

LMAO...! You're gonna create a lump that they're gonna want to investigate while you're there...! i would say it's a harmless calcium deposit and you should stop playing mommy mammogram before something bursts... How long until your appointment...?

 

Karen,

I hope everything goes well. The only scare I had is when my appendix burst....that's the only scare I ever want to have.

Best of luck. Let us know how it goes.

Andrew

 

i had a really bad stomach ache when i was a kid... i kept telling my mother and she kept telling me to just relax and that it would go away... i swore to her, over and over, that my appendix burst, and she said, "stop being such a baby!"... It did, of course, just turn out to be a stomach ache...

 

Karen, sorry to hear you have been given something else to worry about. Definitely go get it checked ASAP. Like NNO said, it is probably nothing, but do not procrastinate in getting it checked.

I have a good friend that actually did have breast cancer and elected to go with non-traditional treatments. She's beaten the cancer and is happy and healthier than ever. If it turns out to be something, or if you just want advice, drop me a PM and I'll put you two in touch.

Keep us posted.

 

Why didn't you schedule when you were on the phone...? Can you call back...? Do they have an answering service that will schedule appointments...?

 

Best wishes for a good outcome.

 

Forewarning: Some Docs and Insurance Co's are better than others.

My wife's had a few scares & has described what they do and how they do it in detail. Ugh - can't imagine. Suffice it to say, there's got to be a better way to do initial tests than squishing. Why not do Ultrasounds to begin with?

But, better safe than sorry.

 

Sorry to hear your troubles. Most of those call-backs don't turn out to be anything, but you should be safe, none the less.

Remember mammograms are really tricky to read, and radiologist's threshold for a call back is low, not out of greed, but out of trying to be as sure as possible with a non-perfect test.

I wish you the best with this, let us know when it turns out OK...OK?

P.S. any micro-calcification may trigger the recommendation for a needle biopsy. While not a fun thing, if it is recommended, definitely do it as it may very well save your life! Remember, most tumors that are curable have no symptoms while they are curable, you have to actively seek them with routine health checks such as this one.

 

Wishing you the best, Karen. Hopefully, as others have said it is just a harmless "scare" and nothing more. Best of Luck! Don't get too crazy with the squishing!

 

My wife's doctor insisted she had uterus cancer, all the tests confirmed it. After they removed my wife's lump and tested it, it turned out to nothing. All the sleepless nights and worrying, all the tests, and it was really nothing. At first were upset and felt very used, after some time had past, we realized we were happy it turned out to be a false positive. Had my wife had cancer the operation would have only been the first step, chemo and radiation would follow, with the ever looming fear is the cancer spreading, did we get it on time? So prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Good luck.

 

Wishing you the best Karen.

 

i hope it works out for you Karen. getting sick sucks. i called in sick saturday, went to the doctor, surprise, another sinus infection. went to work monday, and wound up in the ER at memorial this moring with a septic Staph infection that was spreading and drug resistant to the Ketek they had me on. did the I.V thing , 6 shots, and 14 days on antibiotics. and i was supposed to go on a real vaction "TOMORROW" , now i am grounded and feeling "unairworthy".

my mother is going thru the motions for the third time in her left breast with "lumps" and bloody drainage.

whatever you do, dont put off gettting things looked at. i am seeing the sinus surgeon thursday to make arrangements to have my face broken again and the bone scrape done, again. fun.............



stay well, i hope they fix you up. Michael

 

Both my mother and grandmother have had breast cancer, and my wife is a breast imaging tech. Like others have said, most of the time it's calcium deposits. They need to do additional views to try and make them "disappear" on film. The Ultrasound also gives them a better idea of what's going on. Most of the time it's nothing, but good luck and we'll say a prayer.

 

Hope it all goes well..I'm sure they will find it to be nothing and you'll be on your way in no time.

 

On the opposite end of that spectrum. I had a tough Portuguese girlfriend when I was ~18. Watched her gut a pig once (not the fondest of memories). Anyway. Out of the blue one day she's got this horrible stomach pain, we're talking doubled-over, can't speak, can barely breath. Her parents tell her to "suck-it-up" (or whatever the Portuguese equivelant is of that expression). They wait something like 8 hours before calling an ambulance. By the time they got her to the ER, the sepsis had changed her color to the point where she didn't quite look human. 1 emergency surgery, a few antibiotic shock treatments, and lots of praying later ... she was OK. But it was close.

Bill in Brooklyn

 

Geesh...I thought you were going to say your appendix did burst.

Karen, hope everything goes ok. Never hesitate to get anything like that checked out.

 

Best wishes that it's nothing!

 

Karen i hope that everything will turn out ok, i know that untill you find out you will worry yourself silly, but we are hear if you need to talk, take it easy and all the best.