Found a lump

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In my armpit. It’s probably nothing, almost certainly nothing. But my dm and 2 aunts had breast cancer. They were post menopausal and I’m not so it’s still probably nothing.

Waiting 2 weeks or for changes before I speak to a gp. Just now it’s about the size of a grain of rice, hard, smooth and not painful.

Main problem is I’m completely floored. I faked an upset tummy to get 2 days of work because I couldn’t focus at all, hands shaking and crying.

I’m usually very calm and I know there’s no point in panicking but since I’m in a panic going to the gp is the only thing which will sort it out. My aunt went to the dr with a lump and was dismissed out of hand.

I should have done that in the 2 days I had off instead of snivelling on the couch.

I have to go back to work tomorrow, hopefully it’ll take my mind off it. I don’t know what I’m looking for hear, if I read this I’d be thinking I was a drama llama.

Go to your GP and say exactly that to them OP. Being proactive is the best thing to be, and snivelling about it along the way is fine too! Xx

I wish I hadn’t lied and said I had an upset tummy at work. Getting time out for a dr appt is going to be a pain. I also know stressing about that is pure displacement.

I’m also not telling anyone. I’ve been through this prediagnosis stage with so many people. It’s crap and hangs over everyone like a dark cloud. Even when it’s almost always nothing.

I'm puzzled why you are waiting for two weeks before going to see the GP ?

Go tomorrow, and you will be seen sooner and have two weeks less of worry.

Go to a gp tomorrow. Why are you waiting for 2 weeks? You’ll just drive yourself totally insane by that time. Plus if it is cancer the quicker you get it diagnosed the quicker you can start treatment.

I was in your shoes a few months back, and I really empathize. It's a horrible time.

I however found a lump and was in the GP at 9 the next morning. A few days later, got the all clear from a triple assessment unit, thankfully.

Don't hang around. Just do it, get it over with. The odds are well on your side that it's nothing so why prolong the torture!

Wishing you all the very best x

No danger of an appt tomorrow, I need to finish a this week at work.

I’m waiting 2 weeks to check for changes, because there’s every possibility it will have disappeared by then. And because that’s what dr google says. And I know I’m too young for a mammogram to be any use. And, finally because I’m fucking knackered and have had zero appetite for the last wee while which is 100% to do with other stress but if I say that to the gp it should set of all the alarms. So I need to separate all that out.

And cause I’m snivelling on the couch completely unable to get my shit together.

Hope this helps - not quite the same thing but several years ago I found a pea sized lump in my breast. .Made myself go to GP and it was an ordinary cyst. The worry beforehand is terrifying and I hope you go sooner rather than later .I send all good wishes. and hope you have good news soon.

Please go to the GP. Found a lump like this in my breast and they acted very urgently. I was absolutely fine, just a fibrocystic lump. It was a terrifying time but I'm so glad I went to the GP ASAP as it meant less time worrying
💐 Hope you're OK OP, it's a scary time for anyone but I'm sure it will be ok given your age

I hope it turns out to be nothing serious.

Take it from one who knows. Make an emergency appointment with your GP in the morning.
Please.

Putting it off isn't going to change your health.

Putting it off is just going to put you through two weeks of sheer hell, waking each morning in limbo, so scared that the all-consuming fear of the unknown makes you feel sick.

And you know the score. If - IF - it's cancerous you'll wait up to 2 weeks for a hospital appointment, followed by another couple of weeks waiting for results. If you put off going to the GP for a fortnight it'll be 6 weeks before you so much as have an answer and even longer for a treatment plan, heaven forbid that it's needed.

The earlier you get answers the sooner you can put it all behind you as a nasty false alarm or grab the bull by the horns and say, "Okay Doc, so what are we going to do to make me better?"

Sticking your head in the sand won't make any illness go away if there is a problem. It won't change your health for the better or for the worse. It won't make the situation easier to deal with. It won't put you in control.

Action, pro activity and answers will. Please, take it from one who knows and who's still here coming close to 2 decades later.

Go and see your GP tomorrow morning.

OP, a lot of the screening units will use Ultrasound as well as a mammogram. And also, even if it does go in the next few days, wouldn't it be great to get the all clear anyway? Sounds like it's been on your mind a lot (my mam had bc so I get where you're coming from).

The nurses also said it's great to get a healthy baseline scan/mammogram just in case something else crops up in future. So just go.

They used ultrasound on my lump and then took a core biopsy. They took the lump very seriously and I realised the gravity of the situation when I was having my tests. Get them. Sooner rather than later. 💐 Luck to you