I’ve been lurkin around here a while, but after today’s frustration thought I’d ask advice here…
I found a lump at beginning of May in my Rt breast quite by accident but knew it was odd as I have never felt anything before.
I went to GP after a week to be told to go back in a couple of weeks. The jubilee w/end got in the way, then GP was away for a week, followed by me being away for a week, so made appt for my first day back.Turned up to be told I didn’t have an appt…(it later transpired that the Doc had cancelled as 8:30am was too early) next available appt was the following Friday. So that was last week 6th July. GP confirmed lump was still there and didn’t seem quite so relaxed about it as first appt, referred my to the Breast Clinic.
I got a call yesterday asking me to attend this afternoon. I stewed about appt all morning following a really bad night what with looming appt and exam results also due today.
Arrived at clinic, filled out numerous questionnaires called in answered more questions prodded and poked to be told I have a lump, need to have an ultrasound but will need to wait for another appt to have that.
So basically I am still no further on to knowing what this hard lump in my breast is than I was over two months ago and am getting just a little stressed now. I feel like today’s apt was a hospital tickboux exercise so they can say we saw her within the two weeks as required, and now I get to go back to waiting all over as dr told me no more than my GP did last week.
I’m not sure if the lump is moving or if it’s the tissuearound the lump… Def hard mass rather than a fluid filled cyst, and I just want to know one way or the other now. Is that so wrong ?
Thanks for listening
Oh Netfan, when things go wrong…
It’s really understandable being worried and needing to know, as everyone says the waiting is the worst time ever. hopefully your appointment will come quickly and everything will be ok, take care, lots of hugs and keep posting xx
Is it a lump that you can roll about in your fingers and feel it move? Or is it fixed and hard and immovable?
Are they saying anything about a biopsy?
When I found my anomaly the Breast Specialist made sure I was sent straight down to radiography for an ultrasound and mammogram for which he got the results straightaway.
I feel sure that if they were worried they would have made sure that you were investigated thoroughly straight away rather than risk having to do more radical treatment.
I am sorry you have had to wait so long to hear.
Hang in there and maybe get your GP to chase them up to try and speed things up.
I hope all is well for you.
Liz x
Sorry to hear about your troubles.
First appointment at clinic was for me the same just a look and a prod and then a letter dated the following day came through with an appointment for 10 days later, which I know can seem like an eternity but if you haven’t heard by Monday I would phone clinic to check if appointment is in the post. The waiting is definitely soul and mind destroying. Everyone on here will tell you the same. They may even phone again if an early appointment comes up.
Hang in there girl, and I do hope your ultrasound is clear.
Maggie
What do you consider as a lump? I hope someone could share on how to identfy lumps,
Thanks all for replying, here’s hopping for an appointment to come through the post this week… But at least I’m too busy at the moment to have time to worry too much.
Hope you lovely ladies are doing well with ur battles.
Sara
So still no letter in the post, and work are needing me to go to Windsor in the next three weeks, but don’t want to make any arrangements only to have to change everything…ggggrrrrrrrrrrr, I hate this waiting lark
Ok, So I know it is probably nothing but this waiting lark is driving me mad, so two weeks after the conveyor belt appt that told me nothing, and I’ve still not heard about a date for ultrasound etc, which I was told would be in 7-10 days so called the hospital to be told that the time scale is unrealistic and to wait another two weeks, if I still haven’t heard two weeks from today to call again and they will chase up the appointment then. So thats 10th August, for a lump that I found at the begining of May.
Is it really acceptable to keep someone in a state of anxiety for 3 months? What if the Dr’s wrong and there is something more sinister there than a benign breast condition, and how do they know baring in mind all they have done is feel it and confirm it is a lump(which I think may be a bit bigger now than it was two weeks ago, but I’m not very good at judging)?
And if that wasn’t stressful enough I’m also in the process of moving house, and have an exam resit at the end of august for one of the two exams I took a week after my first doctors apt.