@angierivas1 Good morning. I’m pleased with your news about moving—graduating” is a good word— to annual surveillance appointments. Thank you for asking about my appointments.

All of my tests and exams were negative for disease. Nothing new showed up. I’ve had GI problems off and on for about a year and at my appointments I talked with both my Integrative Medicine physician and my Gyn nurse practitioner. Omeprazole helps if I take the GI medication before going to bed. The GI problems include nausea, sometimes vomiting and diarrhea and occur in the morning. And no, since I’m since 73-years-old no one suggested a pregnancy test. 😳.

I don’t have the painful lump that you described. With these new symptoms that pop up of course I worry that this is a recurrence or a new cancer. In your place I would very much want more answers about the ongoing sternum pain. Here is what my nurse practitioner told me about any new pains. I’m supposed to pay attention over time whether a new pain gets worse and unrelenting. I’ve also had this discussion with my primary care physician and she says the same. The pains I’ve developed have come from physical activity and have gone away.

I do wish your specialists on your visit had been more helpful especially since you do not feel well. I hope your primary care physician will spend the time with you to help you get this solved.

Let me know what your primary care physician suggests?