Raich
4 years agoMember
Scanxiety management
Hi All,
Back again for sage advice and wisdom.
Back again for sage advice and wisdom.
I have been doing okay. Survived my first term of teaching after 6 months away.
The new issue is discovering how what were once routine procedures that didn’t bother me, now have me crying like a baby and hyperventilating.
Scans I had last year during my BC treatment discovered polyps on my lungs - which was discussed at my first presurgical BC appointment last August but I conveniently forgot so had a total meltdown when the letter arrived in January announcing I was due for a lung scan 😳
so I went in for the CT and was completely shocked when , as the machine started up I just burst into tears.
so I went in for the CT and was completely shocked when , as the machine started up I just burst into tears.
Got through it, told myself I was okay.
Results came back reasonably clear. But (yay) they found polyps on my thyroid.
Same issue during the ultrasound. Crying (very silently) trying desperately to reassure myself everything was ok.
So next week I have to go in for a guided needle biopsy on my thyroid polyps ( oh fucking joy) and I know I’m going to have trouble because my phantom boob still recoils at the memory of the damn painful core biopsy last July. And there’ll be the crying which just happens now. Beyond my control.
I’m considering ( in lieu of getting rolling drunk) taking a travacalm before I go in. Not sure I have time to see a doctor for a script for anything stronger.
Any advice? 😬. Before you say grounding techniques... things you can see , hear, etc.... everything reminded me I was in a hospital!!! Which didn’t help a bit... just triggered me more!!! 🤣🤫
maybe I’ll put a high vis coat on my dog.... take him in as my support 🧐
maybe I’ll put a high vis coat on my dog.... take him in as my support 🧐