I really really need some reassuring stories from people who’ve been through this.
A lump suddenly appeared in my breast last Thursday. It’s on the upper part of my breast and feels like a smooth hard lump within the tissue. It hurts - my breast feels a bit achy in the background since I noticed it, and if I spend too long feeling the lump then it becomes sore. I don’t have any other symptoms like skin dimpling or rashes, no family history, and I’m 38 so I know a lot of risk factors aren’t there. I can’t really tell if it’s moveable, sometimes it feels like yes but I don’t have anything to compare to.
I booked an appointment with my GP and saw them on Wednesday, and they referred me under the 2 week wait to the breast cancer screening unit at my hospital. This is what I wanted, but the doctor gave me zero information about the other things it could be and although I think her bedside manner was just poor and I have already looked up things like cysts myself, my anxiety is off the charts. I got a call right away to book the full screening, but it’s not till the 29th, over a week away. I can barely eat or sleep, I’m literally shaking with anxiety.
It would really help to hear stories from people who’ve gone through the same thing and it turned out to be nothing serious. I know there’s a chance it’s more but I’ve done everything I can at the moment to get it investigated and hearing someone say ‘my cancer felt like your symptoms’ will just put me into a spiral - I really need to get through the next week until my appointment. If you have a similar story to mine, hearing it would be amazing.