to have been a bit mortified in the doctors?

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My boobs have been weird since I finished bf-ing DD (just over a year ago), they've been getting rather sore and I convinced myself I'd found a lump in my armpit so off to the docs I went in a panic

I explained symptoms, stressed I had a lump under one arm, which I could feel if I lay slightly on one side with arm up etc etc. I (prompted) stripped off and she (thankfully she!) checked for boob lumps etc, didn't find anything, I demonstrated the armpit lump, and she (impressively straightfaced) said to me:

"Yes, you'll find you have that under both arms, it is your latissimus dorsi muscle."

How did I not notice that?

LOL!

pah!!
brilliant!

ah bless you

one thing i learnt at uni, was always check both sides to see if they are the same...

anyway better safe than sorry, though i would be seeing another gp in the practice for anything else. i hope she didn't put you off from going again, because next time it might not be something normal.

I adopt a symmetrical approach. Always check both sides. If there's one on each side it's probably supposed to be there.

:o

Who cares if you looked a twit, all I can say is thank goodness there was nothing more sinister than a muscle lurking where a muscle should lurk.

As one who wasn't so lucky when she went to the GP with a lump in the breast I'd put up with feeling like a twit any day!

May I give some advice to you? This weekend treat yourself to something nice and celebrate your good health because you must have been incredibly worried every second between finding that "lump" and the GP telling you that all was well. I know how stomach-churning the fear and the wait is.

And while I'm at it I'm going to chuck advice at EVERY woman reading this... check yourself each month, no matter what your age or risk level, don't think it can't happen to you. I was 37 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, not overweight at a size 10, a vegetarian, no history of it in the family... it shouldn't have happened to me.

But it did, and had it not been caught early enough I probably wouldn't be here to warn you all.

PLEASE, check your breasts regularly ladies.

The thing is, I had checked both sides, but cos I was lying slightly on my side (bad shoulder - hurts to lie flat) it wasn't as obvious on my other arm.

Felt like a prize prat........

Still better safe than sorry though!

I'm running out of doctors I can see, last month I went in to have a pile looked at, which turned out to be a spot........ cringe and tmi.......

Impressive! No Doctor has ever found muscles on me. Despite repeated attempts!

Nice one OP!

Thanks for your reply Valhalla and I hope you are now well again.

It was pretty scary waiting for the appointment and I still have a bit to go as she is sending me for a precautionary mamagram/scan to be on the safe side.

My mum just got the all clear from cancer, cancer always seems to happen to the people who deserve it the least.

Thank you LIB, I'm fine now, touch wood, it was a few years ago, but at the time it was so, so scary... my DDs were only 5 and 6 years old and only have me.

If your GP is happy that all you felt is a muscle I'm sure that you have nothing to worry about but I do know how stressful it is to wait to be checked out. Go easy on yourself.

Never be afraid of looking stupid if you go to the docs, better to be safe than sorry! :)