glm777
05-05-14, 22:09
I am so thankful to find this board because I feel like I am going crazy! Here is my story
I went for my annual GYN exam and my doc wanted to do an endometrial biopsy. I have had spotting for several years (I am 52) but in Novemebr I started having regular periods then in Feb I had a very very heavy period and I have had no bleeding whatsoever since then. I thought this was a good thing but NOW she decides she wants to do a biopsy.She thinks it's probably just the start of perimenopause but wants to be sure since I am still not having "normal" periods. I keep telling myself that if it was cancer - the bleeding wouldn't stop - it would only get worse without treatment!But of course now I'm freaking out because I'm a little crampy, kind of feeling like I'm going to get my period - or dying.
So that was Wed. On Thursday I get a call from the breast center to come back for "additional views" on my yearly mammogram. I get in, have the 2nd mammo and now have to have a biopsy tomorrow! I have "calcifications" in my breast. The radiologist actually came to talk to me and told me that he really thinks these are benign and he was really going back and forth about whether to do a biopsy or just repeat the mammo in 6 months but he said that if it were his daughter, he would tell her to have the biopsy and save 6 months of wondering and worry. So once again, I'm doing the self pep talk. He sees hundreds of these a week and if he really thought it was something bad, he would have said something more like "This could be nothing but..." but he didn't. He said several times that he thought they were benign but he wanted to be sure. Even the tech who did the mammo said he was really vacillating between the biopsy and the 6 month mammo and then said to her the same thing about if it was his daughter. So...I'm freaking out. Getting the results of the endometrial biopsy Wed (of course if she doesn't call that'll be a whole new freakout - is it good so she's not in a hurry to call or is it so bad she can't face me?)
So I have myself dead and buried and both things are probably going to com e back fine. I've barely been able to eat (so of course there's weight loss which is a bad sign in my crazy head), I've got all kinds of new symptoms now - back pain, stomach pain, breast pain, - which are probably all due to my anxiety!! Please someone reassure me that I am not crazy!!!
I went for my annual GYN exam and my doc wanted to do an endometrial biopsy. I have had spotting for several years (I am 52) but in Novemebr I started having regular periods then in Feb I had a very very heavy period and I have had no bleeding whatsoever since then. I thought this was a good thing but NOW she decides she wants to do a biopsy.She thinks it's probably just the start of perimenopause but wants to be sure since I am still not having "normal" periods. I keep telling myself that if it was cancer - the bleeding wouldn't stop - it would only get worse without treatment!But of course now I'm freaking out because I'm a little crampy, kind of feeling like I'm going to get my period - or dying.
So that was Wed. On Thursday I get a call from the breast center to come back for "additional views" on my yearly mammogram. I get in, have the 2nd mammo and now have to have a biopsy tomorrow! I have "calcifications" in my breast. The radiologist actually came to talk to me and told me that he really thinks these are benign and he was really going back and forth about whether to do a biopsy or just repeat the mammo in 6 months but he said that if it were his daughter, he would tell her to have the biopsy and save 6 months of wondering and worry. So once again, I'm doing the self pep talk. He sees hundreds of these a week and if he really thought it was something bad, he would have said something more like "This could be nothing but..." but he didn't. He said several times that he thought they were benign but he wanted to be sure. Even the tech who did the mammo said he was really vacillating between the biopsy and the 6 month mammo and then said to her the same thing about if it was his daughter. So...I'm freaking out. Getting the results of the endometrial biopsy Wed (of course if she doesn't call that'll be a whole new freakout - is it good so she's not in a hurry to call or is it so bad she can't face me?)
So I have myself dead and buried and both things are probably going to com e back fine. I've barely been able to eat (so of course there's weight loss which is a bad sign in my crazy head), I've got all kinds of new symptoms now - back pain, stomach pain, breast pain, - which are probably all due to my anxiety!! Please someone reassure me that I am not crazy!!!