Help from everyone who are screen detected like me.
I was screen detected in April 6, 2017 when I responded to the invitation for screening mammogram. I had lumpectomy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy. I had to stop the hormone therapy (arimidex) for two months now as am having difficulty coping with tiredness, joints pain, depression and has been affecting my thyroid hormones ( had my thyroid removed and on thyroxine and had a laparotomy and laparoscopy for endometriosis before my breast cancer diagnois). I am having regular check up for my thyroid and endometriosis. My physical breast examination in June, 2016, 10 months before my screening mammogram did not find anything.
I had a trauma insurance for almost six years which I cancelled when my work contract was terminated. I have been the main bread winner and the premium has affected our budget and decided to cancel it. The insurance was still in place when I had my screening mammogram but when the biopsy was completed my policy has elapsed and the insurance is now refusing to accept the liability because they initially consider the reading of mammogram as the date of diagnosis but now they are saying it is the date of biopsy.
I believe my screening mammogram showed a stellate lesion with a high probablity that is malignant from the date of screening mammogram even without the biopsy.
If you are screen detected like me when you are asked what date you were screen detected what date would you normally give? Will you say you are screen detected on the date of your screening mammogram or the date of your biopsy. When someone say they are screen detected would you only think that they are also diagnosed?
I have been wanting to post this since I joined last year but I was struggling to talk about my diagnosis that time. I am slowly recovering after a year but I still have my constant anxiety everytime I woke up and I am feeling different especially if it is around my chest.
Thank you for your help.
I had a trauma insurance for almost six years which I cancelled when my work contract was terminated. I have been the main bread winner and the premium has affected our budget and decided to cancel it. The insurance was still in place when I had my screening mammogram but when the biopsy was completed my policy has elapsed and the insurance is now refusing to accept the liability because they initially consider the reading of mammogram as the date of diagnosis but now they are saying it is the date of biopsy.
I believe my screening mammogram showed a stellate lesion with a high probablity that is malignant from the date of screening mammogram even without the biopsy.
If you are screen detected like me when you are asked what date you were screen detected what date would you normally give? Will you say you are screen detected on the date of your screening mammogram or the date of your biopsy. When someone say they are screen detected would you only think that they are also diagnosed?
I have been wanting to post this since I joined last year but I was struggling to talk about my diagnosis that time. I am slowly recovering after a year but I still have my constant anxiety everytime I woke up and I am feeling different especially if it is around my chest.
Thank you for your help.
