Thickened endometrium & nervous

You are in a tough phase of the process right now and I agree it’s really hard. The only way I know to get through is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Hopefully everything will turn out fine. It does for most women. If not, we are here to support you as we were supported.

Congratulations on getting your diabetes under control.

We will be waiting to hear back from you.

BTW, I, too, preferred to keep everything to myself, my husband and one friend till I knew for sure what my diagnosis was.

Welcome. It is scary to think you might have a cancer. But 9 out of 10 endometrial biopsies are cancer free so your chances are very high that yours will be cancer free too. And reading studies it is hard to understand about 80% are endometrioid and low stage which requires no further treatment. Those people tend to drift away from this board. So your chances are really good. Try and keep busy while waiting for your biopsy.

Fitmom, congratulations on losing weight and watching what you are eating. That will always help you in everything you do.

I would caution you on Dr Google. He, and none of us, are doctors. It sounds like you doctor is on it and checking it out which not everyone here has had, so that is great.

I agree about calling to see if you can get on a list for any cancels as suggested by MoeKay. The fact is you just don't know what you are dealing with, so I would suggest waiting to see what it is. Please let us know when you get a date and also the results afterwards.

I would suggest not getting to get too far ahead of yourself here. We are here for you, but let's find out what is going on first. Please try to take a breath.

Fitmom,

Welcome to this board. It provides great info and support to we women in need. I am a long term living-with-cancer person, and I understand how unnerving this must be right now. My reason for posting is to urge that, if not already done so, that your care be turned over to at least a gynecologist, if not a gynecological oncologist. And, just based on my own experience (you can read my story by clicking my icon), if the biopsy turns out positive, DO NOT allow anyone but an oncologist do surgery, if recommended. There's also the issue that biopsies can deliver a false negative bc only a limited amount of tissue is sampled. A D&C, I believe, is really the gold standard diagnostic procedure. But biopsies are commonly done, and can be followed by a D&C, if indicated. I'm most concerned that you are with the proper specialist. Your post only mentions your GP. Best wishes as you proceed through this journey (one hopes to a benign conclusion). Oldbeauty

Hi Fitmom,

I've got to put my 2 cents worth in and reinforce what all have said here. The thing about uterine cancer is that it is a slow-growing cancer, so even if you have it, there is time to get it diagnosed and endure all of the waiting involved. It's hard to have that possibility hanging over your head, but at least don't picture it as spreading out of control while you are waiting to get things done.

One thing I'd consider doing while you are waiting is asking your doctor if you should go ahead and get all of your vaccinations up to date if you haven't done so already. I don't think doing so would interfere with a biopsy, but check first to make certain. As Moekay said, it's that time of year again and any time you spend in health care facilities where sick people are increases your exposure to everything out there and getting a virus now wouldn't help.

If your biopsy comes back negative, it is hard to say how your doctor may want to proceed. Biopsies are hit or miss finding cancer, so he or she may want to see if your spotting persists past what is expected following the procedure or they may want to just proceed to scheduling a D&C to get a more definitive answer. We all would have just liked to have passed on having a biopsy and gone straight to the D&C to get diagnosed, but you'll find that things have to follow a certain order to get covered by insurance and doctors usually have no choice but to start with the less expensive tests first.

If your biopsy ends up positive, any gynecologist worth his salt will refer you to a gyn-oncologist because dealing with cancer or even a pre-cancerous uterus is outside of their skill-set. Hysterectomies under those circumstances require special considerations and surgical training that gynecologists just don't have. Hopefully, your HMO has one or a few they can refer you to should there be a need. As others have said, do not let a gynecologist do a hysterectomy unless cancer has been definitively ruled out as a possibility.

Good luck to you as you go through this. I'll be praying that you can get an earlier appointment!

The odds are very high that this is benign, so please try not to worry. That being said, all of us on here wish we had had a hysterectomy before we developed uterine cancer. I thought that my post-menopausal laparascopic/vaginal hysterectomy was incredibly easy to recover from.