Hi here’s a bit of background- my mum was diagnosed with invasive lobular bc in 2015 she had a bilateral mastectomy and 6 chemo cycles and now on tamoxifen and doing great thank goodness. I found a lump about 6 weeks ago and waited for a full monthly cycle thinking it was maybe hormonal but went to docs today and have been referred to the breast clinic. My lump feels like a flat pea and is moveable which I’m trying to assure myself is a good thing. Just feeling a bit stressed and don’t want to say anything to my mum until after my breast clinic appointment as I know she’ll be worrying?
Gemma x
Gemma
Welcome and sorry you find yourself on here. As a lot of the ladies on here will tell you a lot of lumps do not turn out to be cancerous but the good thing is that you are getting this checked out. There are a lot of benign breast conditions that the breast clinics deal with. Your stress will not be made better by the fact that your mum has been diagnosed with bc,
I know when I was diagnosed I actually did not tell my mum until I had had my op, lumpectomy, and got the results, my reason being that I wanted to be able to tell her exactly what was going to happen instead of just giving her different potential options of what it could be, My mum does not live near me and is in her mid 80’s so I didnt want to cause her worry until I knew, but I have to say she was not happy with me at all, but she got over it when I explained why I hadn’t.
Let us know when you get your apt through and remember We are all here to help and suppor you on here so as and when you need to just come on and talk to us, even if it is just to rant, cry, and we do have quite a laugh on here as well.
Helenaxx
Thanks Helena, hopefully I’ll get the appointment through soon my GP said within 2 weeks. I know myself that the odds are it’s something benign but will just be glad to know for sure. I’ll keep you posted.
Gemma x