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Chelee, why not consider getting your second opinions anyway, even if they are the same, it might make you feel good for taking charge of your fear and doing something about it. I'd be interested to hear from other women about whether HER2 cancer is painful - mine was, and I actually showed the sonographer where to look by pointing to the painspots - I was "spot-on". Having said that, I was convinced I had the same pain on my RHS, and there turned out to be nothing. But I guess we get a little more 'aware' of all the strange feelings and sensations that probably go on in our bodies all the time after we are diagnosed, and it's hard - even impossible - to brush them off.
Chelee, do whatever you can and need so that you can feel like you are making the right decisions (not your surgeon making them for you) and have the right options for your treatment and recovery.
And don't be afraid to say it like it is. At one point I said to a breast nurse after my session with the surgeon "I get the feeling you think I am being irrational", which toned her down, reminded her that she should be supportive not argumentive, and in turn prevented me from walking out of the discussion with her and right back into the surgeon's office.
Belinda
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