In a holding pattern now

aprilsquier
aprilsquier Member Posts: 4
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
I have the results of my mammo, it came back clear. Since my dr hasn't called about the results of my us I am guesing nothing showed up. I really don't have many options. I have an HMO so I'm pretty much stuck with my dr. If I want to see another dr I have to switch my pcp. Which is something I am considering, my dr is somewhere around 80 yrs old. But I am not sure what to do so I have't done anything. I guess I'm waiting to become so disfigured that someone has to order an MRI for me and figure out what is going on. The dimpling is "growing" (for lack of a better word". But because it is located on the underside it is not obvious unless you know where to look and have adequete light. Right next to that is where you can "see" the lump. With my age and the location of it most likely it is benign so I am trying to be at peace with the waiting. But it's not easy. But I'm hanging in there. April

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  • babs49242
    babs49242 Member Posts: 193
    #2
    April,April,April!
    Change Doctors!!! dimpling IS a sign something is not right even tho the mam came back clear. My doctor could not feel my lump even tho I could see the difference in my breasts(I also had dimpling). You know your body...i'm not trying to scare you..Please get a second opinion and a third if necessary....1 1/2 yr survivor..Cindie
  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #3
    April,
    I have and HMO, too. They CAN be manipulated to do your bidding...you just have to get REALLY tough!
    (I threatened mine with the Insurance Board...seriously!).
    Please, please, please, do what it takes...MY HMO allows a self-referral to a GYN...MAYBE he or she will go farther with it.
    Remember, MY 'benign' lump was over 10 years old...and was already out in the sentinel nodes. It is not the 15th yet, you can even still request a change in groups, if there is a doctor you like in another one. Then, the first of next month, you will be flying!
    But, that's MY HMO, please check before changing as to rules/regs.
    It got to the place that I called my group administrator so often, she recognized my voice!!!
    ($1,000 worth of diagnostics is less than $100,000 for treatment of cancer)
    Hugs,
    Kathi
  • LesleyH
    LesleyH Member Posts: 370
    #4
    April, please go back to the doctor and ask him to refer you to a specialist. Insist. Don't let him talk you out of it. Sit there until he does.

    Then change doctors.

    Hugs.

    Lesley
  • jdubious
    jdubious Member Posts: 113
    #5
    I agree with others - don't put it off! My symptom was dimpling around the nipple, no lumps. My mammograms did not show anything unusual, but I have "fiberous" breasts. Ultrasound wasn't much better - biopsy was needed to diagnose. Don't wait any longer, insist on a referal now!
    jill
  • 24242
    24242 Member Posts: 1,398 Member
    #6
    jdubious said:

    I agree with others - don't put it off! My symptom was dimpling around the nipple, no lumps. My mammograms did not show anything unusual, but I have "fiberous" breasts. Ultrasound wasn't much better - biopsy was needed to diagnose. Don't wait any longer, insist on a referal now!
    jill

    Run as fast as you can to your second opinion. I was told I had fibrous cyst and nothing to worry about. The lump I had found in my breast was no larger than size of the end of middle finger. I was tired not showing any signs of being ill. There is no way to be sure unless the lump is biopsied or removed to determine whether it is cancerous or not. That is a fact. I would demand it be removed since there is no gaurantee that it won't turn into cancer at a later date. I heard what I wanted to hear a moved on only to be very ill just months later and then another lump grew in my armpit. I knew what I had then no one had to tell me and it was stage 3 instead of possibly a stage 1 or 2 cancer. Younger women have more aggressive forms by nature than older women and it can move very quickly spreading.
    I was 36 at diagnosis and considered to young back 9 years when dx'd. Now we have women in the teens and early 20's and it is time to diagnostically test lumps.
    Tara
  • 24242
    24242 Member Posts: 1,398 Member
    #7
    24242 said:

    Run as fast as you can to your second opinion. I was told I had fibrous cyst and nothing to worry about. The lump I had found in my breast was no larger than size of the end of middle finger. I was tired not showing any signs of being ill. There is no way to be sure unless the lump is biopsied or removed to determine whether it is cancerous or not. That is a fact. I would demand it be removed since there is no gaurantee that it won't turn into cancer at a later date. I heard what I wanted to hear a moved on only to be very ill just months later and then another lump grew in my armpit. I knew what I had then no one had to tell me and it was stage 3 instead of possibly a stage 1 or 2 cancer. Younger women have more aggressive forms by nature than older women and it can move very quickly spreading.
    I was 36 at diagnosis and considered to young back 9 years when dx'd. Now we have women in the teens and early 20's and it is time to diagnostically test lumps.
    Tara

    Just wanted to say that I seem to find and feel my lumps more easily than the doctors do. I have had lumps that they wouldn't even consider a lump yet had them removed because they bothered me. I ended up having a second mastectomy due to reoccurring lumps, though benign I couldn't take a chance to leave them after everything I had been through. Mammography showed nothing and altra sound showed the lump but not sure if they could tell it was cancerous or not at the time. I had it after needle biopsy so they could see if it would show up on altrasound. Just new using for diagnostics for breast cancer.
    Tara

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