First, let me say I have had symptoms that look like inflamatory breast cancer for a few months. I have the thickening and swelling in the breast, the nipple has flattened, the breast periodically gets inflamed and has the "orange peel" skin look, a sore has even opened up--it feels like the breast is rotting from the inside out. The lymph nodes under the armpit on the same side are swollen and that shoulder feels like it is about to break. I am continually fatigued and often sick with fever, chills, nausea. With that said, I know someone is going to get up in my grill about diagnosing myself on the internet. Please, just don't. Getting real medical care is not an option for me for a number of reasons, one being that I am still caring for/live with my 84 year old mother who has abused me my entire life and has been particularly cruel to me whenever I am sick. In the years I have lived with her, she has driven away every friend I ever had, so getting support for doctor's appointments and so forth is also non-existant. Add to this that I am terrified of the medical profession, and quite overweight, so I don't expect to be seen as anyone of value in that context, just another fat **bleep**bag who doesn't take care of herself. Really, I just wanted this to be heard because I am all alone without a soul to talk to about it. And, I would like some advice on how I might go about getting a diagnosis and palliative care without being forced into (potentially) curative (chemo,radiation,surgeries) I don't want. I'm ready to go, I just need to really find out for sure if it is real, how much time I have, and hopefully have some medical professional be compassioniate enough to help me control the pain if it is the worst. Thank you.
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