Hello @st160478. have you had your referral? This is such a scary time and the stress is exhausting

No I’m still waiting on appointment so no date to be seen yet. Just a waiting game. They can’t give me an idea of how long wit it. Just said they are very busy so it might be a few weeks. Are you waiting to be seen? X

She just said she could feel the lump and she wasn’t sure what it was and was making an urgent referral. She said she could feel it extending towards my nipple, felt quite solid. I’m sorry you are having to deal with so much just now. Hopefully you won’t have to wait too long. X

Hi Sr,

I'm sorry to hear that you are still waiting for an appointment. You must be going out of your mind with such a long wait. I hope that you are managing to distract yourself from the wait with other pastimes/jobs. Once you discover a lump, you keep feeling it and attribute every little ache, pain or change to this. Common sense goes out of the window and our overactive imaginations take over.

I sincerely hope that you hear something soon.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx 

There’s not much I can do apart from wait. Waiting another couple of weeks then I’ll try and speak to my GP again  and ask if she can chase up the referral. Trying to keep my sensible head but it’s difficult x

I asked him what it is that makes him feel its that and he said its hard to describe but when you've felt alot of lumps it's easier to tell. Then he said on his recorder, I'm referring this lady to the urgent breast clinic, lump found around 1cm, smooth edges, one side with irregular border but I suspect its a fibroma. He only took about 3 seconds feeling the lump so I'm not very reassured tbh

I saw nurse prac. She just said it’s smooth, moveable. Didn’t say whether or not she felt any lymph nodes in armpit. I can feel and and not sore. I burst into tears today at my friends house. Even though when I Google (I know I shouldn’t) it mostly suggests cyst or fibroademona (I think I’m alto old for that one at 49) I cannot let go of the fact it is cancer. I’ve lost nearly a stone in weight in 2 weeks. 

I can relate to how your feeling. I've always been underweight. In 2020 they found a lump on my kidney, gallbladder and ovaries and I was reffered under the 2ww to the kidney specialist, the gp made it sound like cancer that had spread all over on the phone, he booked me in for urgent blood tests the next morning and for the next 2 weeks all I did was cry and not leave my bed, I didn't want to speak to anybody, I wouldn't eat. Being underweight I lost even more weight. I had a ambulance called out and they wouldn't leave till I ate some toast. Those 2 weeks were horrendous and it turned out it was a benign tumour, but the damage was done in my head and I didn't leave my bedroom for almost 4 months except to go to the bathroom. My weight plummeted and I've only just managed to get back to just over 7 stone. I lose weight so quickly and this is triggering it again, I'm down to 7 stone now but I don't want a repeat of last time so I'm trying to stay out my bedroom (even though I'm there now) and I've ate my dinner, just got to try my best incase it is something serious this time and need my strength to fight it. I'm 37 next month and feel although I'm too old for a fibroma. He asked if I'd breastfed any of my babies and I said no, he said even if you didn't it could still be a blocked milk duct with scar tissue but I didn't think to tell him its been almost 11 years since I gave birth to my youngest so surely can't be that! 

Please try and keep your strength up too just incase it is the nasty c word because you'll need to fight. 

Its so hard for me to put weight on I hate it but I just don't feel like eating! 

I am trying to at least it a bowl of cereal daily. Even though we are told only 2 in 8 lumps are cancer we only think about the 2. 

Ladies 

you have fine the right thing to go to. The breast clinics clinic as GP are not the professionals in this they can only do small checks 

My Gp said I had mastalgia it’s just lucky I said I wasn’t happy walking away I booked a private breast clinic next day if I hadn’t I would be walking around today thinking just that 

the breast clinics are top class you will be looked after and thorough check not just assuming by GP 

good luck again love Lara xx 

Ros & Chel 

keep strong try to eat your normal diet it’s hard while going through waiting but please try xx 

Its 2 in 10 apparently, which is still high odds i think! So 20% chance it is. But trying not to dwell on it too much. I'm going away for the weekend with family. They don't know and I won't be telling them. So hopefully trying to act normal will help. Yes try to eat atleast 1 meal a day! 

Its 2 in 10 apparently, which is still high odds i think! So 20% chance it is. But trying not to dwell on it too much. I'm going away for the weekend with family. They don't know and I won't be telling them. So hopefully trying to act normal will help. Yes try to eat atleast 1 meal a day!