Huge bruise, lump, pain in shoulder

Hi everyone, hoping someone may have a similar experience to me, or else I’m a one off in this mysterious scenario.  Around 4 weeks ago literally out of the blue a huge purple mottled bruise like thing appeared on my right breast, I mean covering two thirds of it. Like I’d been punched or in acar crash! No pain at all. The bruise changed then to a red/rustic type colour. I went to the doctor and she prescibed antibiotics. At this stage I felt a tiny lump but doc couldn’t and didn’t seem overly worried. Last week the bruising had faded and a big lump could be felt. Back to doctor who immediately referred me to the breast clinic. They rang on fri afternoon to make me an appointment. So I go this Thurs.  The lump doesn’t feel as prominent or else my breast was swelled and has reduced.  For months I’ve had shoulder and under arm pain which has became worse over the last 6 wks or so resulting in me taking Naproxan every day. No pain or tenderness in breast.  I’m a strong person but this has me worried sick. I’ll deal with the outcome but it’s the not knowing and I’ve never heard of anyone else experiencing this.  

 

Pleade tell me im not a weirdo :-) 

  • Hi Catmumma,

    Welcome to Cancer Chat. Firstly you're not a weirdo! Although I'm not able to shed much light on this unfortunately. I see it's now not long to wait until your appointment, so hopefully you'll know more soon.

    Do feel free to use this forum as much as you'd like if you have any worries or thoughts you'd like to write down - it's a welcoming community of people and everyone here is very understanding too.

    I hope it all goes OK tomorrow.

    Wishing you all the best,

    Ben
    Cancer Chat Moderator

  • Hi

    I am going to the breast clinic tomorrow as I have a mottled purple/red/brown bruise across the whole top of one breat from my arm out to my breast bone. No lump or pain but intensely itchy. It started months ago but was a red itchy rash, started about 50p size and gradually got bigger. I kept going to gp, had antibiotics, then fungal cream, steroid cream, antihistamines and after a while I worked out that it kept reoccurring at the same time each month and then settle down. I put it down to something hormonal. I have inflammatory arthritis and in September my iron was extremely low I had to have an iron infusion. Since gen the rash turned to this purple staining like a bruise all over the area where I had the red rash, it's the biggest it ever been and this time it hasn't settled down. So last week I went back to the Gp and she didn't have an answer so referred me to the breast clinic and I'm going tomorrow. I'm 39 and breastfeeding my 2 Yr old at bed time. I'm hoping they'll say it's just a rash or down to the iron infusion or my arthritis but still quite anxious.