Hi, I absolutely know how your feeling it is frightening when you feel a lump. You definitely do need to phone the doctors in the morning even if it turns out to be nothing it will put your mind at ease.

Hope everything goes well for you, Good luck and best wishes 

Thank you for replying. 
I've made it sore now and it's swollen a bit as I keep prodding and poking it about. 
Im googling everything I can and I know it's not helping but I can't help it I feel like I need to know what I'm going into? 
i just have a bad feeling about it all!!! 
 

Thank you for replying. 
Ive read so much about radiographers saying they are cysts and then they turn out to be cancer, I just don't know how I would cope. What if I haven't ever noticed it and they say sorry it's terminal and I have to tell my kids I'm dying! 
My kids wont cope they're teenage girls how will they manage without a mum i just can't stop worrying! 
 

I probably sound self absorbed and like I'm being stupid but I am genuinely utterly terrified for my life. I can not shake this feeling that it's cancer. I watched a video today of a woman with a lump just like mine, was fobbed off at the Gp as a cyst, told no lymph nodes were swollen and was sent to the clinic to shut her up. Ultra sound showed a mass, numourous lymph nodes were found that it had spread to and she ended up being stage 4 cancer and is leaving a family behind. 
even women on here have written that they've been told fibroadenoma and the no sorry it's cancer. 
i have health anxiety anyway but this is another level of panic, it's consuming my actual life 24/7 

Hi scarredtosleep, I can imagine you are feeling utterly terrified but I dont think your helping by looking at things online like that. You need to stay positive, I know its easier said than done but it could turn out to be nothing serious. When I was waiting for my results and appointments for breast clinic I just looked on here and found it helped rather than look at other things about cancer on Google. The waiting is the worse bit tbh so I know exactly how your feeling. 

Please stay positive

Best wishes and thinking of you xx

Try not to worry , keep busy and hopefully all will be good for you xxx good luck xx 

I know I'm not helping but I don't know what else to do. I feel like I now have 3 lumps not 1! I've read about sarcoma that attaches to tissue, could it be that? It's so painful today I've had to take pain relief and inthink that breast is bigger than the other now too. Shall I ring breast clinic and say I think there's 3 lumps now not 1 and it's a different size? 
yes it is the waiting and no one in real life is helping they just say don't worry it's probably nothing not all lumps are cancer and it isn't helping at all!! 
 

Hi, it might be bigger now especially if your prodding and poking it. If it's painful then perhaps take pain relief. You could try to phone the breast clinic but I dont know if it would help tbh. I really do feel for you. We have all been thro the waiting period and it is worrying for us all. I really know where your coming from when people tell you don't worry, it's natural to be worried. I found chatting on here helps a lot when I'm feeling worried, down,or even upset. 

Good luck and just take one day at a time xx

Hi, Stay off Google, it doesn't help it heightens your anxiety. The feeling of not knowing is the worst, your mind will go into overdrive. You have to think of it this way, if you didn't go to the GP or find the lump then that would be worse, although it's scary your doing the right thing and the hospital will look after you. 
Don't jump ahead, it could be a cyst. Boobs are so complex. I'm 38 with two sons. I do know how you feel. Mine was Cancer, but I caught it early and I'm on the other side now and doing well., Take deap breaths stay to the light. Xx

I read that cysts look RADICALLY different to cancer on an ultrasound and are therefore very easy to diagnose. But the problem here is your anxiety (I have health anxiety too).. please do not research this any more. There is no value in that. Accept that right now, you do not know what these lumps are, and trust that the professionals have the tools to find out. You are not qualified to diagnose yourself. Also remind yourself regularly of the facts- most breast lumps are benign. Most importantly, STOP TOUCHING THEM. You are prolonging the anxiety cycle. Every time you touch them, you're inviting more intrusive thoughts. 
good luck with your scan and try and put your energy into managing your anxiety rather than trying to diagnose yourself xx

I feel that I can't get past this, every thought of every waking minute is do I have cancer I have cancer I know I do stop being ridiculous you don't know anything it's a cyst but what if it isn't we won't be able to go on holiday in October I'll ruin everything i can't book anything I can't get excited about anything my first thought when the queen died was well what if it's me next. 
 

i can't help it I look at my kids and think I need to plan for their birthdays like cards etc xmases leave notes for my partner so he knows what to do. 
I don't know how to manage this anxiety it has taken over me like something else. I've never ever been like this before even when I had an abnormal smear this is next level I think because I know deep down this is going to be it for me. 

I've stopped prodding it now yt doesn't hurt which I'm worried about. And I don't know if it's grown? And my shoulder hurts I've read about referred pain in breast cancer? 

I've stopped prodding it now yt doesn't hurt which I'm worried about. And I don't know if it's grown? And my shoulder hurts I've read about referred pain in breast cancer?