It’s scanxiety that finally pulled me down…
I found a lump in May 2021. In January 2022 I was finally diagnosed, after a single mastectomy, with triple negative metaplastic carcinoma. This is a rare breast cancer, with the worst prognosis of t...
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@Fufan
My sympathies, it can be really nerve-wracking. To a degree, it’s some of the feeling you might have had earlier, expressing itself now. Scans simply remind you of the whole box and dice, with the threat of it all perhaps happening again.
If my own experience is anything to go by, it gets better. The phantom twinges and odd sensations, the fear that this time it was something real that accompanied my yearly tests, went on for some time. Then just stopped. Nothing happened, the anxiety just packed up and went. Like everything else in this caper, the tests just became a normal part of life.
If you can ‘normalise’ the wretched referrals, it helps too! Ask for an ongoing one for your surgeon, or anyone else you may need to see for some time, so these Medicare induced timelines don’t catch you out (we’ve all been there). Your GP needs to know this is distressing for you - office procedures are one thing, but they have consequences.
Best wishes, take care.
My sympathies, it can be really nerve-wracking. To a degree, it’s some of the feeling you might have had earlier, expressing itself now. Scans simply remind you of the whole box and dice, with the threat of it all perhaps happening again.
If my own experience is anything to go by, it gets better. The phantom twinges and odd sensations, the fear that this time it was something real that accompanied my yearly tests, went on for some time. Then just stopped. Nothing happened, the anxiety just packed up and went. Like everything else in this caper, the tests just became a normal part of life.
If you can ‘normalise’ the wretched referrals, it helps too! Ask for an ongoing one for your surgeon, or anyone else you may need to see for some time, so these Medicare induced timelines don’t catch you out (we’ve all been there). Your GP needs to know this is distressing for you - office procedures are one thing, but they have consequences.
Best wishes, take care.