Hello everyone!!! I am new to this forum, guided here by Bernie Nolans chat to Lorraine Kelly about her breast cancer.
I guess i should give you a brief history of myself. I have been ill since Nov 07. After 3 groin lymph nodes were removed at different times, due to suspected Lymphoma, i was finally DX with lupus in May 08. I have tried prednisolone to no avail and am currently on Plaquenil, however i feel progressively worse.
So, i guess you want to know why i am here???
Due to a scare i had, I have done a monthly breast check, a week after my period, for the past 10 years or so. Just after 3 periods ago ( i am on my 3rd now ) i found a small hard lump just above my left nipple, just off 12 o clock. 2 periods ago i found another hard lump at 12 o clock, higher up, which feels like it has a pinhead lump growing off it and one that feels like a hard runner bean in the upper outer area of my breast, towards the armpit. I have noticed nothind like this in the opposite breast though my right breast does feel thicker than normal.
I obviously know my breasts and these lumps do not feel normal for me, which makes me almost petrified to go see my GP, strange i know.
I always thought that breast cancer lumps were isolated ( only one in breast )???
Has anyone else had the same thing?? What was the outcome??
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as i am trying to deal with this on my own for the time being. I have 2 children who have been through so much with me and i dont wish to cause my family or friends any more worry.
Thanyou in advance
T xxxx
Hi Teezie,
Welcome to the Breast Cancer Care discussion forums where I am sure you’ll get lots of support from the many informed users of this site.
While you are waiting for replies, could I suggest that you give the helpline here a ring and have a chat with one of the breast care nurses, they’re here to support you. Lines are open now until 5pm today (M-F 9-5 and Sat 9-2) calls are free, 0808 800 6000. As I am sure other forum users will tell you, don’t leave what you have found, do make an appointment to see your GP and get it checked out.
Take care,
Jo, Facilitator
Hello Jo, just to say thankyou for your lovely, warm welcome :-).
I am almost scared to talk to someone who deals with breast cancer, frightened of being told something i dont want to hear i guess, but, i have to realise that by joining this forum, i have already taken the first step.
I will try to pluck up the nerve to talk to one of the nurses and will book an app with my GP when my period has finished.
Thank you once again.
T xxxx
So sorry that you are going through this worry… unfortunatly none of us will be able to say for definate you have nothing to worry about as only test results can do that - but it really is best if you get things checked out as if it is nothing your mind will be put at rest, and if it is something then treatment can start…
It is possible to get more than one lump - it is then called multi-focal…
Please do book an appointment with your gp and please insist that the refer you on to the hospital… honestly until they do you will only keep worrying…
Take care - and keep posting - we really are here for you every step of the way.
Theresa x
hello Rhapsodyangel and thank you soooo much for the kind advice you have given me. I had honestly never heard of multi focal before, when i put breast lumps into the net before, it has never been mentioned, only that cancerous lumps are normally singular. Could be one of the reasons why i maybe have not made an app yet. The other being that i am scared stiff, had 3 lymphoma scares to date and i guess i dont know just how much more my tiny mind can take!!
I am considering alling one of the breast care nurses tomorrow, when the kids are in school, i should really make that app with my GP too, tho on my period at the mo so maybe i should book it for after then. I did also forget to mention that i have had tiny lumps swell in my collar bone before ( right side ), the lumps are in my left breast. I got booked in for an ultrasound of that area, but 6 weeks later the radiologist could not see anything, they had disapeared??
Once again, thank you, this seems like a wonderful place to be, the support you give each other is phenominal.
We also share the same name, without the h, my mum spelt it wrong when she cchristened me!!!
Teresa xxxx
hi all, well, i guess its time to get my behind into gear and make the dreaded appointment. 4 days after " P " has ended, i done the usual check, n the bloody things are still there and sadly feel larger than before. Boy, is this a dark place to be 
Teresa x
Teresa, def make the appointment, I spent months putting it off last year, not knowing is actually worse than knowing, fingers crossed for you its nothing as by the sound of things, you have had to cope with a lot
take care
love n hugs
Carol xxx
Thank you Carol for replying to me x
i keep walking to the phone and walking away, normal i guess!!!
i will make the app today,just need to get over the sick feeling in my tum, i have to admit to myself that 3 months is a while to have lumps in your boobie.
Guess im scared
Hmmmmmm
Teresa x
Hi Teresa,please,please make that appointment.God willing it’s not cancer, it could be many things and 9 out of 10 lumps are benign, BUT if it is BC its not going to go away on its own,I know it’s scary but leaving it will only make you worry more and as carol said not knowing is worse .keeping everything crossed for you…AND MAKE THAT APPOINTMENT…
Best wishes Mel xx
Hi Teresa,
Yes, that first call to get something checked out, makes it ‘real’ doesn’t it? whereas at the moment it is just in your ‘head’ But PLEASE you have left it long enough, Friday 3.20pm so not long before you wont be able to speak to someone until Monday! and all weekend you will be thinking “wish l had made the call, it would be one step closer to sorting it out” PLEASE don’t leave it until Monday, DO IT NOW, we are all here for you, but you have to make the first step.
Sending you lots of hugs to make you strong, you have been through so much, just one step more!
Sandra xxx
Hi Teresa
I reckon you’ll feel better when you’ve made the appointment because it means you’ve put yourself in control! 
Not knowing was definitely the worst bit for me, and it could turn out to be just a couple of cysts!
I’m sending you lots of positive vibes …
love
SG xxx
hello everyone and thank you for all your kind words and support, it is very very appreciated.
I guess i am scared of making it real, i remember the first time i was suspected of having lymphoma, dint realise till i went for my hospital appointment with the Haematologist, on the chemotherapy ward…was not prepared for that. They kept me in for 5 days for tests. My poor mum was with me, we had just lost my brother at that time.
Well, i finally plucked up the courage to call and guess what…?
I got put on hold ( Q’S ), 30 mins later i put the phone down, tried again, answer phone, " sorry, our surgery is now closed…
So yes, i did think to myself, if i had only called at 320!!!
I also had sharp pains in my lower left pelvic area yesterday, followed by a bleed ?
Monday for sure, thankfully its not a bank!!!
Hopefully i will be seen same day.
Hugs to everyone, you are all amazing, thank God for this place
Teresa xxxx
Oh Teresa! lets not dwell on the, if only’s! (3.20!!) hey you have your head in gear now, and you will call on Monday, so that is really good to hear.
You certainly have had some rotten rough times, but hopefully your call on Monday, will start you on the road to getting the lumps sorted out!
Easy for me to say you should call, and you should do this and that, but you know what you can cope with, and you know you will make that call in your own time. So well done for trying, what an absolute pain trying to get through to your surgery, is it too far to go in and see them on Monday? you might get the sypathy vote for being such a keen patient!
Lots of Hugs
Sandra xxx
Haha Sandra, first time i chuckled in a few dasies
You were right about the 320 thing tho ( TOLD YOU SO!!! )
I guess you no where i am at, what was your outcome?
I am going to call bang on 830 on Monday morning, i hear that docs normally reserve so many apps for things like this.
I look at my kiddies and i know what i have to do.
Thanks for giving me a wonderful kick up the behind
Love and hugs
Teresa xxxx
Hi Teresa
We all know what the right thing to do is…but then it becomes real…so fully understand how your feel…just glad you have made the right decision.
I was diagnosed on my sons 33rd birthday! 9th Feb 2010, l had a lumpectomy on the 15th March. said they didn’t think any nodes were involved…two week later l got the results, and there were 16/18 nodes positive!! Thought l was going to die there and then! l was sooooo frighten, they said they hadn’t taken enough of a margin away, so there was still some pre cancer cells there, l said just do a mx, but no they convinced me they could get a clear margin with another op…but they didn’t. So l am going into hospital on the 12th May to have a mastectomy. I have had a body and CT scan, and they say they cannot see any spread of the cancer. They have started me on femera as my cancer is oestrogen related. so hopefully that will do the job it is supposed to do before l start chemo!
Going back to the start, l was called back from a mammogram, never found the lump myself.
Lots of Hugs,
Sandra xxx
PS. Hey, just for me try 8.29!! would hate for you to get in a queue again! XXX
Awww Sandra, you are going through sooo much, please stay positive xxxx
I promise you that i will start calling the docs at 815 on Monday morning, that way you will no before you go into hospital that i have done it xxxx
Thank you for being there, i hope you remember that i am here for you also.
My kiddies are my life, i owe them mine xxxx
Lots of hugs and stuff!!!
Teresa xxxx
Hi Teresa
Hope you get up nice and early to make that phone call this morning! a ‘fresh’ start to the day, so start it ‘right’
Good Luck
Love
Sandra xxx
Good morning Sandra, i hope you are well xxxx
Checked myself again this mo, just in case…no such luck, still residing in my boobie, must be warm and cosy in there!!!
I have the phone, in my hand, at my ear, in another Q, haha. Not putting it down this time tho :-).
will reply when i got the app booked.
Teresa xxxx
Well, finally got through, no apps with a female doc till thurs, then i mentioned it was for a breast exam and she miraculously found me a cancellation for 1030 today!!!
Will post again soon.
Fingers crossed she cant feel anything, haha!!!
Teresa xxxx
Teresa, please let us know how you got on, so pleased you made the appointment.
Carol xoxox
Hi Teresa Ah, well done you! well it is 10.55am so hopefully you will have been and seen the doctor, and she will have checked you and decided what next…watch this space!!
Lots of Hugs
Sandra xxx