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Swollen lymph node under both armpits and lumps in breasts

nikita.s
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Hi not really wrote on any thing like this before but here it goes 

I'm a 30 year old female and I went to the doctors just over a week ago as I had I really irritating dull ache under my left armpit for months. I always check my breasts regularly as i have cystic fibro tissue in both breast, so I've had them checked a few times and always been raised fibro tissue but I never had the ache before. Anyways I checked myself in the shower and noticed my lymph nodes were up under my armpit going down into my left breast and into my chest wall. when I felt them the ache got worse after a touching them. I saw my gp and he felt the swollen lymph nodes and to my surprise he found a lump which I was shocked as I thought I had properly felt or maybe it came up that day so he has done me a 2 week wait appointment with the breast clinic and I have my appointment next week Thursday. I'm pretty worried this time round as when I got home from gp i had a look at my breasts and the right breast has a dimple just underneath my areola which seems to be fading a little and seems to have a soft raises lump, well it looks lumpy but is very soft to touch. My lymph nodes have also come up on the right side now to which is causing me more discomfort then pain and I also have lymph nodes up in both of my elbows. Usually when I go to the breast clinic they scan me on the day but this time I've been informed I will only be seeing a consultant and if a scan is needed it will be on a other day. I've been suffering with left flank pain LUQ and have had lots of tests to rule out all the simple things, I know it's a process of elimination but as they have all been ok except they found out I have chrons/colitis I'm getting to that stage where I just don't seem to be feeling any better.

SYMPTOMS

I'm always tired 

I've lost 3 stone 11lbs in like 4 months with out trying 

Waking up with headaches everyday 

Swollen lymph

under both armpits

in both side of chest wall and lumps in both breast

In both Elbows

In my stomach just underneath both ribs

Shoulder pain

Involentry spasms in my hand,lip,bum cheek and leg

Breathlessness 

Severe constipation and diarrhoea 

Sever bloating

Lower back pain

And despite all my medical problems I have I'm always able to crack on but this just seems to have wiped me out 

My current medical problems are 

Partial Prolapse disc in spine

Vertebrae slipped forward 

Spinal Timor (benign)

Chrons colitis

Joint hypomobility (swollen and popping joints)

Adhd/autism

Reflux

Asthmatic

Partial vaginal prolapse

And had an colonoscopy today wish showed a rectal prolapse and they did 5 biopsy to test for anything nasty but they didn't see anything untoward so that's good.

 

I have an endoscopy coming up  eacuae of persistent reflux despite being on 3 any acids a day 

U have a gastro appointment next week regarding my chrons as it's a recent diagnosis

 

I just feel mentally and physically exhausted and I'm just not sure how to process it all. I'm worried it's cancer either breast or lymphoma. I find it hard to show people my pain as I feel embarrassed about it I don't know why so I've always been one of those people who just get up and cracks on with things regardless of I'll health. 

I don't want to voice my concerns to my gp as every time I go they think it's because I'm anxious and I told the gp after my diagnosis of chrons colitis that it wasn't anxiety it was bloody chrons.

 

So I'm worried there just going to look at me like a hypercondricate when actually I know my own body and just can feel that something not right and so can you please advise me how I should bring this up in conversation or maybe should I speak to the breast surgeon about my concerns. I know I shouldn't Google but two of my friends did and they diagnosed them selfs with cancer and they were right and are alive today because of it. Lymphoma and breast cancer are the only 2 things that fit all my symptoms. I find it so hard when I go into a consultation as I downplay everything no natter how hard it try I find it so hard to show other my pain it's sounds strange I know any idea gown should approach my concerns I will be truley greatful 

  • Offline in reply to Annieliz

    I know annieliz it has been very frustrating and I've had so much other things going on, but I've had enough of feeling like this so I'll keep going until I get an answer if I'm to young to suffer like this like the doctors say then I'm to young to live with it, so I refuse to do that until I understand or get some sort of answer and finally the battel is easing off they found abnormalities and now there reffering me to the right people I got there in there end just need to have the test and results next X

  • Offline in reply to nikita.s

    How did everything go Nikita? I have had some similar issues too. Xx

  • Offline in reply to nikita.s

    You poor girl, you have had such a rough time. I hope you have finally got answers by now x

  • Offline in reply to Smoore921

    Hey guys just an update so had the film blood test and was abnormal, was refferred to a heamatologist February this year because if the diffuse bone marrow signal on my spine and the abnormal film blood test, I didn't even get an appointment, just a letter of advice to my GP, I called the heamaroligist medical secretary to ask if they were aware that I was under investigation for swollen lympanodes with ent and said they would call me back but never did, I knew any were going to do an ultrasound biopsy so I was annoyed but thought well at least I'm getting it biopsied, went for the biopsy and I couldn't have it apparently they could feel it but not see it on the scan so was discharged march this year, skip forward to this summer I've had awful pain and problems with my kidneys, bone pain is very intense and sore, 8 weeks ago I ended up in hospital with high blood pressure 196/155 and heart rate 198 they never discovered what was wrong or why, but told me I needed to be refferred to an oncologist I asked why and I was told by lympanodes have been there two years two long and I need a biopsy and found a mass the size of a small apple on the back of my neck on the right side, strange I wentcan feel fluid dripping down my arms and spine. This I feel every day now. My GP  did another refferal and my GP was sent a letter of advice AGAIN twice in one year AGAIN I phoned the medical secretary and explained how I could feel fluid moving around my body and the this mass on my right hand side has doubled in size and is causing me herendous pain, she told me I needed an urgent refferal to see the heamaroligist, This is the Medical secretary telling me I need to see them urgently , I explained if they did there job properly we wouldn't even be having this conversation, I'm now finally living my dream by going to music college at 32 after a 15 n half year relationship I'm actually happy for the first time ever and now this. I phoned my GP the next day and the rereferred me for the 3rd time this year which was in a Friday and I had an appointment the following Wednesday, explained everything ultrasound biopsy and to be seen back in clinic 20tg November. I worked in the NHS for 7 years running clinics so I know this is 6 weeks so routine appointment, I had a blood test the day I went. I got a phone call the following day after seeing the heamaroligist asking if I could go in the following week, I asked if my biopsy would be done before then, They called me back data later I have my biopsies this Thursday and I'm seeing the heamaroligist back in clinic with the results on the 6th November, I felt relaxed when I thought it was within the 6 week routine, now I'm scared as even though this is all I've wanted is for someone to listen and do a biopsy, why the rush, why has it changed I'm so scared as I know something is wrong, it's strange I w gone down hill since the summer but I'm not I'll I just feel so tiered, hot all the time, feel sick all the time, lost 4 n half stone this year, bone pain is so sore. I had a meeting with the manager and tutor at college and if it's the big C I can't carry on I'm fuming, this is why I got all this sorted the beginning of this year Because I knew I was starting college September and now I'm living my dream all this is happening because they didn't listen in February this year honestly fuming is an understatement Xx

  • Offline in reply to nikita.s

    Hi! It's been awhile, what was the results of all your tests! I hope they found out what was wrong after 2years of pain. Wishing you all the best.

  • Offline in reply to nikita.s

    Hi. Just wondering how you're doing? Read your posts x

  • Offline in reply to nikita.s

    Hi what was the outcome? Hope your ok

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