Hello, 

I think I just need to get out my worries because I know i'm overreacting, but can't fully calm down. 

A few weeks ago I noticed a little nodule thing in my right breast (nearly exactly where I had a cyst drained 6 months ago), and figured it was probably realted to my period, as it was a few days from starting. It's now about 10 days since my period finished and it's still there. So i went to the doctors yesterday, he did a breast exam, noted that my right breast appears to be naturally more fibrous and lumpy than the left (which i'd noticed and initally freaked me out!), and said it's likely a fibroadenoma, but that he was referring me through the fast track 2-week thing just to be sure. He said BC feels very different to what he felt on me. Logically I know that this is very reasonable, and a sensible way to go about it. I know that if he was at all concerned he would have told me. But i still can't calm down. I wasn't like this with the cyst, but then i've felt cysts (on other people) beofre so I guess it wasn't entirely new.

I also woke up this morning with swollen lymph nodes in both armpits - this has happened multiple times a  year for years, but the timing just scared me a bit. I've also had a dramatic reaction to some flea bites (my dog got fleas and we didn't realise for a week or two  of him being on the bed), so my torso is covered in slightly itchy red patterns. In the last few days these have been getting progressively itchier in my armpit, so I'm half-conviced that has likely contributed to the swollen lymph nodes. I've also been incredibly stressed and not sleeping well for the last few nights as a  result of a bit of health anxiety and other life things happening too. I'm just going to the worst case scenario constantly! 

I'm trying not to google, but it's almost like the not knowing is worse. if i think about it too much my heart races and get shaky - i've had generalised anxiety in the past so I know this is health anxiety. I've been doing breathwork, yoga, and meditation, which is helping me calm down but I can't put it out of my mind when i'm trying to work.

Basically I think I'm just looking for someone to tell me that I am overreacting and am likely perfectly okay with just a poorly timed reaction to flea bites, stressed, and an inconsiderately lumpy right breast!

For extra info, I'm 25 with no family history of BC, but a family hisotry of cysts. 

(sorry that this turned into a mini essay!)