Hi all,

just wanted to say how helpful and comforting this group is. Today I was referred to the breast clinic after a visit to the GP for pain and a lump in my breast. Like many of you this was traumatic and I am now in the limbo waiting stage. I am flipping between being quite pragmatic about it, not all lumps are cancerous, there is very effective treatment, to crying and thinking about my two young daughters. I feel like sharing some of my thoughts with those that are going through the same thing will help me and perhaps others. The irony of the situation is that for the last 9 months I've been suffering from health anxiety and several ailments that I have panicked endlessly over have turned out to be nothing much at all. I had almost convinced myself that the discomfort I had been feeling was maybe just hormonal and that the lump I had felt was just my overactive imagination....but no. Now every little ache makes me think that I have picked this up far too late, I have heard that the clinics here are great so I'm crossing my fingers (everything actually) that it's nothing major. The GP would not be drawn on what she though which I guess is a good thing but makes me feel like she thinks it's bad and didn't want to tell me. 
We're all stronger together xx