I bought a 2-pack of sports bras to keep the girls in place afterwards.
Once again, I looked at images and those were spherical, whereas mine is like a thread or a cord. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I shouldn’t look at them, but this time I came away very reassured.
Time will tell!
T-minus 24 hours. I’m starting to worry, even though I know I probably shouldn’t.
As a breast cancer survivor, I can tell you that IF you do have cancer, chances are it’s caught early enough they can successfully treat it.
Breathe deep, do what you need to do to stay calm, and keep us updated.
Not much to say here, just that I’m thinking of you and sending hugs!
In the meantime, I saw an acquaintance who used to be an ultrasound technician. She said that whenever they caught a suspected cancer, of the breast or anywhere else, they would do a Doppler scan to determine blood flow, and this was easy even for a layperson to see because the B&W image would suddenly turn colorful. If they did this with me, I never saw it, and she said that I probably don’t have anything to worry about, on top of the biopsy being scheduled a week after the diagnostic mammogram.
And she’s been through this kind of thing twice herself, both with benign results. 
Best wishes.
Let us know. We expect a post even before you get up off the table. (Okay… maybe after you get back to your car.) Fingers crossed it will be nothing.
How did it go?
Turns out they don’t do it face-down anymore, but I kind of wish they had, because while the doctor was numbing me up, I got really woozy and admitted that I hadn’t eaten lunch, and they attributed it to that. :smack: They gave me some Sprite and sat me back up again when my color returned, and then the doctor got me all lined up and while it wasn’t completely painless, it wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle. I was able to drive myself home afterwards, and took some Tylenol and have a cold pack in my bra that they gave me.
She (the doctor) will call me with the results on Monday or Tuesday. All signs point to it being benign, one of them (reading between the lines) that she had so much trouble finding the area she was going to biopsy.
They had me sitting up on the wheeled chair that looked like a giant Hoveround that also folded out into a bed, and also said they were grateful I spoke up, because too many people don’t and they just kind of keel over. I’m sure they’ve seen it all.
In other words, mission accomplished.
Whether they do it face down or not seems to be related to where the spot is located in your breast. My good friend had her biopsy face up a couple of months ago. I had my facedown one quite recently-- only two years ago. Also, the radiologist came in IMMEDIATELY afterward and gave me the bad news. (He said, “I’m gonna give you the news you don’t want to hear.”) I preferred that to waiting at home for a phone call or letter.
Glad you got this part over with! Try not to fret over the weekend. And keep us posted.
ThelmaLou, they may have had reason to believe that yours was cancer, and sent it straight to the pathologist for an immediate look. The tech said that their center stopped doing face-down biopsies a couple years ago. Maybe it’s just the center’s policy; IDK.
Now that it’s over, I’m really not all that worried about it.
Interesting.
I’m glad it’s over with.
Just to make things interesting, my biopsy was done while I was standing. Maybe the doctor just chooses what works for them?
I wore a sports bra to bed last night, and still have it on, and have NO pain in my breast. It’s bruised a little bit but that’s normal.
The bruise has surfaced, and it’s finally a bit sore but it looks worse than it is (I HOPE!). Tomorrow or Tuesday, I finally get the results.
Dear friend, my prayers are still with you.
Still no results, and I’m viewing it as “no news is good news”.
I had an “abnormal, but not alarming” PAP test a couple of years ago. No one knows why; next one was fine. I wasn’t worried, because the only man I’d had sex with without condoms was my husband, and he had never had an STD, which put him at low risk for HPV. Plus, he had only had one partner before me that he had had sex with without condoms.
My sexual history made me extremely low-risk, and my next PAP was normal, albeit, a little on the edge of the bell curve.
Since my mother died of ovarian cancer, and on top of that, I an 50, and really sick of periods, I tried to parlay it into a hysterectomy, but no such luck.
I am due for a PAP in a couple of months, and not the least bit worried.
My point is, there are lots and lots of things that can look odd, and require investigation, but are not cancer. The mammogram is just a screening process. I have had several friends who had fluid-filled cysts on palpation (self-exam) that were nothing, and one who had a lipoma, that required surgical removal, and was biopsied for shits and giggles, but was nothing; It was excised under local anesthesia. She looked a little lopsided for awhile, but eventually the tissue evened out.
I got the news several hours ago.
It’s “infiltrating ductal carcinoma”. 
I will need to schedule a consultation with a surgeon, who will probably order an MRI. I’m hoping a lumpectomy will take care of this. I mean, the radiologist herself could barely see it, so it can’t be that bad, right? I hope so.
Thanks for all your support.
My parents don’t know yet, and telling them is going to be tough because my mother got similar news 34 years ago.
Oh, dear. I’m sorry to hear that. Keep in mind, this is not your mother’s breast cancer. Most likely they can get it out with a lumpectomy, and if it’s so small you may just need radiation.
Good luck.