Do you have a hug or positive words??

I am just really nervous this week. It was my 2nd mammogram (now recommended after 40) and while last year was clear..they saw what *may* be a mass on left side. I do have a feeling it is a cyst type mass as I do get pain there occasionally, and most tumors do not hurt in the breast. But I am STILL nervous. I am going back for a second mammogram with ultrasound this week. 😟

Then I will be emailing my doc after THAT about a cyst like lump in my stomach. I do feel pain with that too and I have put it off many months to get it checked. My sister had a benign cyst that hurt as welll years ago and it was a lipoma that they cut out. I hope it is that. Either way I am pretty nervous all around so any hugs welcome 💓

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JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

Oh, so sorry my friend. That is scary. And not knowing makes it worse.

I know what it is like: I failed a Cologuard test last year (I mailed a sample and they detected blood so recommended a colonoscopy). I was scared. But fortunately the colonoscopy found no tumors or polyps. Yet they found inflammation, and gave me oral medicine, and eventually a month of enemas of the same medicine. I had a follow up probe last week, and the inflammation is gone!

Yet I now have a new scare: I have been diagnosed with diabetic eye disease. I could go blind! I have a laser treatment next week on my left eye. I will be awake. I am terrified I might flinch and the laser will hit the wrong spot!

Best of luck.

Baybreeze · 41-45, F

@JoyfulSilence They do those laser treatments so often..Im sure it will be great.

JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

My brother's girlfriend has the same disease. I do not know if she has had laser treatment, but I do know she gets eye injections. I mentioned that to my doc and he said that may come later, if it gets worse.

I think the laser hits blood vessels, or something. I should do some research.