Very Unsure

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I joined the community today to hopefully get some advise and reassurance.

I have been living with a very strange lump in my right breast for a few months now, (keeping and eye on my menstrual cycle with it), it doesn’t go, it is always there. Now what i mean by strange is that it is like an oblong shape directly above my brown on the nipple, it’s about an inch long and about 1cm high, the last couple of weeks it has started kind of burning, and in the last few days i have noticed that the right side of the same breast has become tender and sore (much like a pulled muscle).

I have breast implants (done 4 yrs ago - sub-pectoral, not sub-mammary) so it’s not that i am feeling.

My worry comes through about seeing a GP because when i was 11 i had a Thyroid disease and the GP told my mum it was all in her and my head, when i was finally diagnosed (i was seveare at that point) my treatment didn’t go to plan and it still doesn’t to this day. So i DO NOT have great faith in GP’s and very rarely visit.

I haven’t told anyone, I don’t want to as my own mum works with cancer patients at our local ENT clinic, so that is scary in itself.

Can anyone just describe what might be wrong with my breast, i am not a worrier at heart but i have to admit this has got to me.

Thanks in advance ladies. x

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Hi Jade. I’d go along to your gp and get his advice.It may not be anything serious but at least you’d have peace of mind!
Josie xx

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i agree with josie… i understand that you are doubtful about doctors after what happened in the past… but the only way you can be 100% positive is to have this investigated… especially if the lump is always there… (i’ve heard a few people on here comment that lumps only appear the week before their periods…)

Theresa

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Please go to your doctor love.9 out of 10 breast lumps are benign but you need to know.In the mean time why not ring the BCC helpline and have a chat with someone who will be able to advise you further.

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Thankyou all for your comments, i am like so many others out there, just scared but knowing i should make an appointment to see my GP, i think i may make one with the nurse first (if i can do that), in the mean time i will give the helpline a ring tomorrow, i’m on my own as husband is at work.