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Breast Cancer | Last Active: 5 days ago | Replies (20)
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@lizziew Hi
You are very welcome.
So sorry for your stress and potential pain issues.
I believe the immediate best option might be scheduling an appointment with the Pain specialists at your hospital whom would be able to advucate for you in terms of pain treatment and arrange for lidocaine or other pain management.
Active surveillance usually involves more Mammograms or added radiology tests which may require an added • 6 month delay.
This must be a difficult experience for you. I can imagine your distress.
Hopefully the pain specialist meeting will resolve the pain issues.
Best
Susan
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@smith777
Thank you for replying to my post.
I have “white coat” syndrome. Every appointment, my blood pressure skyrockets. So I have that issue in addition to being so nervous about the biopsy. I have very small breasts, and I read that smaller breast have a more painful experience in biopsy. I have a message to my PCP. If she will prescribe a good, effective sedative, and a 10%lidocaine patch, I will go forward with a biopsy. I am being so hesitant because the mass is almost 100% microclusters. Research has been that microcysts are almost always benign. So, I don’t feel an urgency in needing a biopsy. I think that another mammogram and ultrasound in six months is a better option for me. I come from a huge family, huge, on both maternal and paternal sides. No one has ever had breast cancer. Heart disease is rampant, but no cancer. So, I also feel that it is jumping the gun for an almost certain benign condition.