2 ww for breast clinic

[Gettingitoffmychestt]

33 year old previous melanoma diagnosis (stage 3) had immunotherapy and axilla clearance in left armpit.

Mum had breast cancer at 38. She died in October from metastatic breast cancer that came back 22 years after her primary. Her grandmother died of breast cancer and 2 of her aunties (grandmother's children) died of breast cancer before 50. Her cousin on her dad's side died of breast cancer at 40.

I've been referred to genetics for checking breast cancer gene. I've been waiting for the results for months.

Around Christmas time I could feel 'something' in my left breast, actually it was a freak accident that alerted me to it, I have nerve pain from the melanoma surgery in my left armpit and I jarred my arm and it hurt so much so I grabbed my armpit and my hand felt something in my boob.

I ignored it because of Christmas and I was due my period. I checked again on Monday and it was still there, so i called the dr and saw her today. Hoping she'd say no you're fine just paranoid.

Nope. She can feel a lump and has referred me to the breast clinic.

If you read all that thanks! I've only told my husband and won't be telling anyone else, but fucks sake! This isn't fucking fair

I'm sorry love.

It is fucking unfair.

Wishing you all the best.

Awe, you poor love.
I'm so sorry.
If there's a positive side it's that you felt the lump when you weren't expecting to and you've been seen quickly by your doctor.
So hoping that you will now get the help that you need and yes that you deserve as your family history should prioritise you being seen and treated.
I'm wishing you all the best and I hope, if you feel up to it, you can keep in touch on MN.
I'm glad you were able to share this terrible upset.
I know what it's like to not want to tell people that you know.

With your history, no doctor would say 'you're fine, just paranoid' any concern and you will be on the fast track. I'm the same (three times now) and my history is far less than yours. They're on high alert when it comes to you, and you are too, that's a good thing, OP. It's a anxious time but don't assume the worst. Each time I've been checked out, I've been told essentially that yes, I'm paranoid. So much better to be told that after being checked out thoroughly than dismissed before. Hold tight, OP and all the best.

It's very scary isn't it. Once you've had all the investigations and know what's what, or not, then you can plan. Until then you're in limbo.

You may be lucky and it could be a cyst, or a fibroadenoma, or something else entirely benign. Even if you're not, treatment has progressed so far in the last 25 years that it doesn't mean that you will go the same way as your older relatives. Things that would have been desperate 25 or 50 years ago are now very treatable.

Don't panic! Or try not to anyway. You know the score from your previous treatment. Wait for the results of whatever tests are done and take it from there.

And for anyone who tries to tell me I can't possibly know what I'm talking about, I can. I have been there, more than once, and had the treatment.

Thank you all! I feel a bit better now

Have you chased the genetics? Mine didn't take months to come back?

Any update please