Hi

I have just been diagnosed with breast cancer - grade 1 so caught early but i am currently awaiting results for the HER2 receptor test (or something!!). Sorry but I'm still coming to terms with it All.   If it comes back positive I will need chemo to treat it.    I too noticed a dip but could feel no lump.  This was around 4 months ago but I didn't think too much of it as I thought I'd just pulled a muscle.  I kept an eye on it and decided to go to the doctors when it didn't get any better and 4 weeks later, here I am!  I am happy to share my photos with you if it's allowed on here, but on the other hand I don't want to scare you anymore than probably what you are.   Having gone through the waiting I certainly know how scared you are probably feeling right now

Hello starr50, thanks so much for your reply.

I am so sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with it but so glad they caught it early.

I have taken so many photos as I am worried when I go to the breast clinic they won't see it. In all the photos you can see it clearly but in certain lights it makes it harder. I don't have any symptoms apart from being so tired but that's probably cause I am busy. 
did you have any other symptoms and was your dimple very noticeable? Would love to see a photo but not sure we are allowed? 

I had no other symptoms apart from the dent.  Felt tired but we have recently moved house and we've been doing a lot of decorating.  I thought I had just pulled a muscle as well

I've tried to see if I can attach a photo but I don't think it lets you.  

I noticed mine in the shower too and again it looked more noticeable in certain lights.  When I put one arm In the air my left breast sort of looked a bit distorted as well.  My lump is showing 22mm on the mammogram but smaller on the ultra sound - 17mm.  It's small and nothing is showing in my lymph nodes  but all depending on whether this other test comes back as positive depends on whether chemo will be needed. 
 

It's good you are getting seen though and I am here if you need to talk - finding someone to talk to is actually really hard and the waiting is excruciating and personally when I think support is needed

Hi Vik and Starr,

A very warm welcome to our forum.

I am sorry to hear that you are both at this awful stage. Unfortunately, photographs are not allowed on this forum, but I'm glad that you have found one another for support as you move forward. There are so many unknowns at the start of a cancer journey and things happen at such a speed that it is difficult tokeep up with them.

A cancer diagnosis is not the end of the the world. Treatments hae come a long way in the past few years. I have had 2 bouts of breast cancer in the past 13 years and I still lead a busy and fulfilling life.

Please keep in touch and let us know how you get on. We are always here for you both.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Thanks Jolamine

i think the worst part about all of this is The unknown!  I am having trouble with how do I deal with the fear?  I haven't even started treatment yet but I keep thinking about what if it comes back - im absolutely petrified and not sure how to get past it - im a deep thinker unfortunately and keep thinking the worst plus dr Google does not help lol 

Hi Starr,

Do you know what type of breast cancer you have? Unfortunarely, the fear of recurrence is something that everyone with a cancer diagnosis has to learn to live with. I had a second cancer in the same breast within a year and my cancer is a rare and less agressive type, which was grade 1, with no lymph node involvment. This is unusual with this type of cancer, but it took me a long time to come to terms with the possibility of recurrence. when this happened in such a short time.

However, that was 13 years ago and I still live a busy and fulfilling life. You are still in the early stages of all this. It is quite a shock to the system and, once diagnosed, everything happens so quickly, that you feel you hardly have time to draw breath. Don't look too far ahead. The enormity of what could hapen is just too much to cope with. Deal with things one day at a time and you will eventually reach a stage where cancer doesn't rule your life again.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Hi Starr thanks it's so good to have someone to talk to I have found some more dents around the other side of the same boob not sure if this a good or bad thing .

when do you get your reasults. 
my appt is the 28th a week this Tuesday, feels like a lifetime away when your waiting. 
x

Did you get any further/ answers with this? x

Sorry for late reply - it's been a horrific few weeks and couldn't face talking about it all to be honest.  

I'm in to have the lump removed on 15th December.  As long as it's not in my lymph nodes (scan was showing clear) but they are doing a biopsy at the same time as removing the lump just to make sure, then it will be 3 weeks of radio (everyday apart from weekends).  This will probably start around beginning of Feb.  If it's in lymph nodes, then it will be chemo but will have to wait for the results from the op before we know more about the next course of treatment.

One positive result was that I came back HER2 negative.

How are you doing x