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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 1:55 pm
Good luck tomorrow!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 9:47 pm
Best wishes for a nothing much report tomorrow, Askme.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 10:41 pm
Good Luck Askme!!! Pleasea keep us posted...
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Askme_who_ur
Member
08-19-2006
| Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 2:37 pm
ok. Update. They said they want to do BSGI-Breast Specific Gamma Imaging ( radioactive dye injection) on Aug 11th and right after do another ultrasound. I am suppose to get the results same day. If a biopsy is warranted after that they will schedule one. If someone cancels they will bump me up sooner. Thanks for all the well wishes.
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Pamplemousse
Member
09-28-2003
| Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 6:08 pm
keep us posted Askme & Ginger i will keep you both in my prayers.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 6:20 pm
Ahh ok Askme. Let's see I had a dye injection but I don't think it was radioactive but not sure. They did a mammo right after the dye though.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 9:06 am
Went to the Breast Surgeon- they did a needle biopsy and the pathologist read it right there, and THANK GOD, it is nothing. It is a Lipoma, which is a fatty mass. I know that the positive prayers made it okay. Ask, I hope it turns out the same for you.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 9:34 am
Thank heavens, Ginge!!!! I'm so relieved for you, sweetie. 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 10:32 am
Ginger, how wonderful! This is just the best news I've gotten all day.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 10:53 am
Great news, Ginger!! Hopefully, Ask will have the same.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 11:06 am
Woo Hoo!!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 4:28 pm
Wonderful news, Ginger!! You need some good news for a change.
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Pamplemousse
Member
09-28-2003
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 5:08 pm
great news Ginger! Ask how about you? i am getting it all sides, i posted in the uh for women about one issue i am having and hot on the heels of THAT news I got the "call back" on my recent mammogram. going in next week for a bilateral ultrasound & another mammogram. i went thru this including a fine needle aspiration (i remember it well their first try the numbing agent blocked the lump so i had to wait a month & go back & have it done w/out a numbing agent..never will forget the expression on the face of the RN who was in the room with me!) about 12 years ago so am not overly worried... i tend to be a cysty person but still...
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 6:55 pm
YAH Ginger! sending you good thoughts Pample! I did my mamo a few weeks ago and got results that I am good to go for another year!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 5:10 am
Yay Pamy!! Good luck Pample!!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 5:30 am
I'm going in every 6 months right now & just got the call yesterday that it's time for my sonogram. Yayyy Pamy and good luck Pample!!
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 8:06 pm
Hey everyone. My MIL has apparently been experiencing some aching/pain in one of her breasts and the doctor thinks she may have cysts. She is in the end stages of alzheimer's. Her hubby didn't even want to bother investigating because he is worried the stress of the tests will not be worth it whatever the outcome but the doctor is apparently insisting. (I keep saying apparently because I wasn't there and my FIL is a very bad communicator for various reasons). Anyway.... they have decided that a mamogram is out of the question, my MIL will likely be very resistant, so they have decided to send her for an ultrasound instead. My FIL has asked if I will take her and help her get undressed/dressed and hold her hand. I have had ultrasounds while pregnant .... am just wondering if there would be anything different that I should be prepared for? Thanks.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 10:10 pm
Well, Rissa, the difference with a breast ultrasound is you don't have to drink a whole bunch of water first to get a good result. You lie down on a narrow bed-like thing in a darkened room, and the technician runs this instrument (looks like a cordless microphone) covered with jelly over your bare breasts. The room is dark so they can see the screen and know if they are getting a good image. It takes maybe 10-15 minutes, and does not hurt in the least.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 11:10 pm
I don't think you have to drink anything with an ultrasound of any part of the body. If cysts are suspected, US is good for detecting that. Docs can tell the difference between fluid-filled sack (cyst) and solid mass (lump) with US. But there are other things in the breast (e.g., common micro and macrocalcification clusters which can indicate a more serious problem) which US cannot pick up at all. It's August. My annual mammo is coming up in October. Here's hoping for three in a row -- nothing more than screening. Hoping hoping hoping . . . .
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 8:39 am
Which procedure am I thinking of where you have to drink a whole bunch of water, so the bladder is full and it presses the organs closer to the surface? I was thinking it was ultrasound I had done on my ovaries, and it involved a LOT of water and no peeing, LOL.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 8:57 am
that is an ultrasound, but of the lower abdomen and bladder
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 11:00 am
Yep Rissa the ultrasound will be just like one for your tummy but don't need to drink any water or anything.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 12:12 pm
I had forgotten about the drinking ... good times. RFLOL I have a feeling this is going to get ugly... MIL is not going to understand having a stranger touching her and will want her husband at the least. But being the generation he is, FIL does not want to be in the room. Thanks everyone. ETA: oh, also.... what is the general treatment for cysts? I am thinking aspiration or surgical removal neither of which will be an option for my MIL at this point.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 2:34 pm
I guess sometimes they can be left alone. Usual treatment is fine needle aspiration. No biggie at all, but for your MIL.... I've had one cyst aspirated in the past. My won'erful surgeon said it was one of the biggest he'd ever seen / felt. He was withdrawing fluid and called to his nurse for a second syringe! Almost a shotglass of fluid. (I was deflated on one side.) Pathology is done on the fluid, but very very rarely is anything of concern found in it.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 3:05 pm
Thanks Cd. My MIL probably only has about 6 mnths left so I am very frustrated about why the doc is pushing this. Even if they told my FIL that it was malignant and would shorten her life by half.... he would never consider treatment. But of course, like you said as well.... odds are it is something harmless.
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