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Cancer Support

RobinA

(10,221 posts)

10. What I Finally

Reply to PennyC (Original post)

Fri Sep 24, 2021, 11:19 AM

Sep 2021

figured out was that trying to stay out of the OR when they find these things was more anxiety producing than useful. First there's the mammo, then the ultrasound, then the MRI, then the needle biopsy, core biopsy, and then...oops, you need a biopsy. With the life-stopping anxiety at each step. My plan going forward was just go straight to the biopsy and be done with it. Much less worry. Then I developed actual breast cancer (which was pretty definitively diagnosed at the ultrasound stage), and I went with the bilateral MX. Enough was enough. Now I have to still worry about the cancer coming back, but the mammogram chain is over. Good luck.

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Breast MRI today [View all] PennyC Jul 2021 OP

Love and Light to you Unwind Your Mind Jul 2021 #1

Sending love. MLAA Jul 2021 #2

Best wishes for you. mercuryblues Jul 2021 #3

Well, that was uncomfortable. PennyC Jul 2021 #4

Biopsy scheduled PennyC Jul 2021 #5

I had my biopsy today. PennyC Jul 2021 #6

NOTHING PennyC Jul 2021 #7

And who knew... PennyC Aug 2021 #8

Well, CBD does work PennyC Sep 2021 #9

What I Finally RobinA Sep 2021 #10

Hopefully all done (at least with my 2016 cancer) PennyC Mar 2022 #11