I think I am becoming a breast hypochondriac , please help.
Posted recently because of something I had noticed about nipple , and many mumsnetters had same thing so not worried.
I am waiting for a mammogram to come through but this is at my request cos my mum died of ovarian cancer - prior to booking it had a breast exam with doc who thought all looked and felt ok.
However after a very stressful week with a bout of viral pneumonia , a housesale and my grandad being very ill I have become almost obsessive about checking my breasts.
Have noticed that I have a few small brown marks around nipple , look a bit like pores , on both sides though not in the same areas. Have read about pitting and dimpling of breasts and looked at many google pictures of orange peel skin (a sign of inflammatory breast cancer )- it looks nothing like this. And it may have been there for ages as I didn't used to check my breasts so obsessively.
I am seeing the doctor tomorrow about my pneumonia - to see how I am progressing. Have now become convinced that this is somehow linked to a huge breast cancer pressing on my lung (though I am actually feeling a bit better )- I have become a total out and out health obsessed loony..
I will ask her to check my breasts and chase up mammo but in the meantime I am already stressing in a big way .... am I going mad....? Rereading this I feel like I come over as a selfobsessed neurotic - I am actually quite normal....