Hello Mel and welcome to the forum. 

I'm sorry to hear that you've found this lump particularly at a time when you should be enjoying your pregnancy. You're absolutely right though - you're not the only one to have gone through this. 

This post here by [@Phoebe99]‍ and this post here by [@Louise31]‍ are both by ladies who are in the same position as yourself and waiting for their clinic appointments next week. 

[@Charlotte32]‍ posted this thread earlier in the summer about a lump she found and was given the news it was benign. 

I know that most all our members here will say stay away from Google! You will find a lot of doom and gloom stories as well as a lot of inaccurate information. Google won't give you the answers that you're looking for but it will make you feel more stressed which isn't helpful. 

Hopefully you won't have to wait too long for your appointment but in the meantime you're welcome to post here anytime you want to if it helps. 

Keep in touch Mel and let us know how you get on. 

Best wishes, 
Jenn
Cancer Chat moderator

Hi Mel! 

I know, that worrying feeling is absolutely awful isn’t it! But yes, please stay away from google! I should try to take my own advice really as google and I are baisically best friends the amount I use it. It helped me a lot when I read that the vast majority of lumps are benign and nothing to worry about and that developing cancer in pregnancy is so rare. Nevertheless, until you have someone confirm that it’s nothing to worry about - we still worry don’t we. My check up appointment is Friday 15th November and it’s with my GP. It’s good that your GP has referred you to be on the safe side. But don’t worry as worrying does nothing (easier said that done, I know). Did your GP say anything in terms of what it perhaps could be? Chances are - you’ll be absolutely fine! But keep me posted. 

Phoebe xx

Hi Phoebe, 

Thanks so much for your message! I'm sorry to hear you're going through this as well as I know exactly how you must feel. The waiting makes it worse, doesn't it? Glad to hear you got your GP appointment though, hopefully yours will be able to explain a bit more as mine didn't really say much other than it's related to my breast and yes, there can be a more serious condition...and left me leaving the surgery with a 100 thoughts all of a sudden and about one million questions unanswered. I wish at least she would have said things like "there could be other things, not so serious" but she didn't...hence my panic. But I guess the GP's job is to refer us to specialists if they cannot put a diagnostic themselves which is fair I guess. But the way we wait for that letter changes everything...it did in my case especially. I'm quite hormonal at the moment and sensitive to everything so this thing is just too much to handle...we tenf to worry a lot especially when we have this dark prospect of things, just puts everything else into a different light.

Please let me know how your GP appointment went and let's hope for the best, is the only thing we can do right now. Strong and patient! 
 

Lots of hugs xx

Mel

Hi Jenn,

Thanks so much for the message, much appreciated! It's comforting to know I'm now alone and I really hope that these lovely ladies will receive good news. 
I'm trying hard to stay away from Dr Google but when you have so many questions it's hard to stay calm and not read all sorts :) but I'm a bit calmer today so it was a bit easier. Hopefully the letter will come soon enough, will keep you posted.

Thanks again for writing xx
 

Hi [@fisherprice88]‍ 

Thanks so much for your message,it really means a lot and it brings me some hope that there could be orher causes for this. I'm glad it turned out to be something easy in your case so I hope that it will be nothing's serious in my case as well.

Thanks again and bug hugs x

Hello, I'm 16 week pregnant on Monday I felt a lump on my armpit, went to the GP on Wednesday he say that everything look ok, but if the lump get bigger or is still there after 2 week I shoul come back. 
Now, today, Saturday, I found a new lump in the same armpit and I'm so worried, if you googled just find really bad things.

Now I have to wait till Monday to call to the GP.

Hi,

I have done so much googleing on the internet lately and never managed to find any outcomes of peoples stories so I feel like I need to write a reply so people can see!!

I was 17weeks pregenant and found 2 pea size lumps under my armpit, and 3 smaller ones under the other, with hormones all over the place your head instantly starts filling with all these what if thoughts. I booked a doctors appointment and attended a few days later. The doctor felt the lumps and done an urgent referral to the breat clinic and said I would get a letter within 2 weeks, but 2 hours later I had a phone call from the doctors with a appointment for a weeks time. I got of the phone and burst into tears, thinking I I deffently had cancer, I was going toadie and I'd never see my kids again or my unborn baby. A week later I attended the breast clinic, I see the consultant, he sent me across to have my ultra sound on my lumps then i went back across to see him, within 2 hours of being in the hospital I got told I had nothing to worry about and that they where not cancer. He said being pregnant it is hard to tell exactly what the lumps are but your body chances so much that it mostly likely to be swollen glands.

The stress I put my self through was all for nothing, I know people worry and emotions are high but try not to stress your self out and stay of Google, it only tells people the worst in things. 

Sophie 

Xx

I am 26 and currently 26 weeks pregnant. 6 ish weeks ago I found a lump in the left arm pit. Straight away fear, panic and anxiety rushed through my body. I rang my GP the next morning to book and appointment, due to COVID I had a telephone call with a GP. The GP was very blasé and basically said don't worry, nothing is wrong it's a swollen gland. I accept this and glad of the reassurance. I had read on the government website if the lump remains for more than two weeks to let your GP know. I asked should I ring back if it doesn't go, he said it could last for months and don't bother. I carried on as normal; 3 weeks ago I found another lump but in my right arm pit. Again, fear, panic and anxiety crept in. I began to worry that if it was serious I wouldn't be seeing my unborn child grow up. This time is spoke to another GP who wanted me to go and see her so she could feel the lumps. I went and she felt the swollen lumps and both of my breast. She wanted me to get my bloods done to check my white blood count. Straight away I knew what she wanted them for. I was so upset my worst fears were coming true. Everyone was saying I will be fine. However that reassurance doesn't help when you think your life is in turmoil. A few days later my bloods came back as clear, although my GP still wanted me to have a mammogram just to be on the safe side, although she said she couldn't feel anything in my breast and due to my age breast cancer would be very rare. Again due to COVID I had a doctor call me from the hospital, she stated the same thing and said they will be swollen glands, due to my petite frame these thing are more obvious. 6 long weeks of worry, anxiety and sleepless nights are now over, I can again start to enjoy my pregnancy. 
I am not the type of person to write on here or on a forum, however a colleague read some out to me when I was struck with fear and people's own stories helped me, so if I can give someone reassurance then I hope it helps. 

I have the same problem. Please can someone reply about your findings? Thank you