About 3 weeks ago after getting out of the shower my hand brushed against my breast and i felt a lump that i had never noticed before. I mentioned it to my other half who said it’s probably nothing. I tried to put it out of my mind, but i’m a notorious stress head so it was playing on my mind all weekend. By Thursday I was a mess by worrying about it so I managed to get myself an appointment at the Drs on the Friday.
SO Friday came around and I went for my appointment, the Dr was lovely, she said that its more than likely hormonal but she wanted to refer me to the breast clinic to rule anything out… cue stress levels to the max and anxiety… and I think ive been stressing so much that I am making myself ill, my glands were swollen last weekend :smileysad:
So here I am stressing out that it could be something… I have my appointment next week (13 September 2017) and I am absolutley terrified about it.
I have never had any scans or been in hospital for anything. I am only 33 so hoping that it isn’t anything.
I just feel so overwhelmed and losing sleep over it - I will be glad to get next week out of the way.
Feel sorry for the other half as I just want to shut myself away from everyone at the minute, anyone else feel like that?
Hi MnM, I’m in exactly the same position as you so I know how you feel, I’m up one minute and wanting to explode at someone the next. I’m just telling myself to breath and trying to keep myself occupied. My appointment with the clinic is next Thursday and I’m flying to Poland on holidays the following Saturday… can’t even concentrate on my holiday I’m so worried.
The way that you are both feeling is perfectly normal and we all can relate to that on here. It is really good that you have been to get your breast change checked out as that is important.
It is fear of the unknown and when the anxiety monster takes hold all raltional thinking goes out the window. Try to keep in mind that there are lots of benign breast conditions, which if you read past posts on here from ladies who have been in your position and it has turned out not to be cancer.
There is nothing anyone can say that is going to make the fears completely go away but just know that we are all here for you and what we do is let ladies have a pair of our virtual tough pants to get you through. They have been washed and ironed
I’m getting slightly better at calming myself but then that familier knot crawls back into my stomach and the noggin goes into overdrive, I’m lucky enough that tomorrow (Sunday) is my only day off work till my appointment as it keeps my mind off things (never thought i’d hear myself say I’m happy to go to work), but it’s keeping me sane at the moment, plus of course the tough pants are helping too, I just pull them up and tell myself to get on with it. Thanks again xxxx
