symptoms but due to age being ignored?

hello

 

i have been reading the boards for a few weeks now and wanted to say hello

i have been reluctant to post as i dont want to offend anyone, i dont know why i feel like i might but i just dont feel like any of this is “real” i am hoping you may understand. i think it may be because of everyones negativity towards my symptoms.

 

i dont want to make this a long post but i was wondering if anyone can help me understand where i stand as the doctors are being so useless, although i understand no one can diagnose me i just need reasurance that im not mad.

 

my family have a huge history of cancer, my aunt had breast cancer young 40 actually and my mum had uterine cancer at 43. my symptoms dont seem to concern anyone as i am 24 years old but i am in limbo i dont know if i am scared or annoyed? i cant understand my feelings to be honest

 

it started 3 months ago with a dull pain in my right breast, from my chest into my breast tissue, i thought it was my rib, but it hasnt faded, the pain then spread into my arm pit and slightly down my right arm and it feels swollen but the doctor has checked and there is no lump and he says he cant feel any swelling.

then my breast started feeling “detached” from my body, i dont know how else to describe the feeling sorry, it just dont feel like it is the same as my left breast.

 

then my nipple started leaking clear fluid when it went hard, but it randomly gets hard and never with the left nipple, and when it gets hard i get a shooting pain into my nipple its like a shooting stabbing pain.

 

my partner then noticed a dent in my breast but only when im laying down and occasionally its noticeable when the nipple gets hard with the pain.

 

my nipple has changed shape very slightly and it has started to sit at an angle if that make sense, sort of if the nipple faces down and the bottom is slightly tucked in. but this is not all the time

 

the skin under this nipple feels slightly different.

 

the doctor has said he will “speak” to the breast clinic and “see” if they will let me be seen!

i feel like no one wants to take this seriously which makes me wonder if i am being paronoid. i have 3 children aged 6, 5 and 3. so my breasts are a little droopy with the extra skin from breastfeeding and pregnancy.

 

i feel like i just know i have cancer, i dont wish it apon anyone but i feel like they are going to ignore me until it is too late.

 

has anyone had these symptoms? the pain just gets me down so much as i feel like im in constant dull pain in my right breast and armpit and its seen as nothing. i dont know what steps to take and i dont want to waste any health professionals time if i am ok.

 

sorry this is a long post after all. :frowning:

 

Hi Flower, I’m sorry you seem to have been dismissed by your GP, ladies your age are being diagnosed with BC so he really should be more pro active about getting you a referal as he will be well aware that it can happen at 24! Bad pain isn’t usually a major sign of most breast cancers but there are cases where it is, keep pushing to be seen at a breast clinic, you know your body and you know when something isn’t right, if you get no joy ask to be seen by another GP and so on until they take you seriously, best of luck love Xx Jo 

thank yu for your replies, i agree it may not nessasarily be what i believe it is, but i will definately go to my gp tomorrow and ask them to see me again if they have not sent the referal off already, fingers crossed i dont need to push them as i find it so hard to deal with confrontation to be honest.

 

 

hi charys

 

thank you for your reply, the thing is as much as my partner has seen the dip in my breast, she seems to believe everything is ok and it is probably nothing (also due to my age) although she openly admits that i should be seen because of my family history she doesnt see my symptoms as serious to be honest so taking her in she will just agree with the doctor and say “the doctor said ur fine babe so lets go home”.

 

i feel unsupported in the sense of i feel like something is wrong and i dont want to be negative but no one is listening/understanding me.

 

sorry if i am being miserable, i dont mean to be but i just feel like everyday its hanging over me, because its hard to ignore your breast