Symptoms discovered very recently.
About 4 weeks ago, a day after weight training at the gym I woke up the next day with a pulling feeling under my arm.
it was mild pain and just felt like a muscle sprain. I had intermittent pain on extending my arm out to the side but still continued with my sports activities as it seemed a minor niggle. I iced and took Ibrobrufin and the whole thing seemed to be no biggie.
2 weeks after the initial pulling feeling the pain it seemed to be there on a daily basis rather than just occasional tightening.
when I had originally felt the tightening I had a good feel around the arm,shoulder,side of breast region and felt nothing untoward.
So fast forward to going to bed last Sunday. I turned in bed and felt worse pain under the arm. I was very alarmed to find a very large hard almost egg like lump about 5cm or so outer left side of breast.
i had a sleepless night and examined the lump and boob in the morning. It had not changed and I thought I could see a small pink area . As the day wore on the pink area started getting bigger and I was now getting burning pain in the whole breast.
I made a decision that if no change overnight I would phone drs and ask for an urgent appointment.
Next morning pink had gone to red and the breast was throbbing. Redness was about an inch in diameter.
i called my nurse sister over. She took one look and said A &E as she thought it looked like a severe infection that would need possible draining and strong antibiotics.
saw 2 drs who treated as abscess until they could not get any pus out with needle aspiration.
Sent away with antibiotics which made no difference and breast clinic spot today.
Dr says lump solid and immovable . Again only blood on aspiration. Has grown since hosp last Wednesday and redness worse but confined to less than quarter of breast. No orange peel look. No heat. ,no nipple change. Not feeling unwell.
mammogram reveals probable tumour. Ultrasound much the same. Punch biopsies taken of breast and underarms for lymph nodes.
called back into dr after all tests and he says things not looking good. He says he suspects tumour and lymph nodes appeared enlarged on ultrasound.
i said how quickly it had appeared and grown but he says that was me finding it. I check my breasts monthly and had a normal mammogram 2 years ago.
i go back in a week for biopsy results and am under no illusion as to what it probably is.
He has ruled out infection,cysts,abscess,fat necrosis and says does not think fat necrosis due to inflamed lymph nodes. Does not think inflammatory breast cancer.
Anyone else had similar circumstances
