Hi everyone
I have my first appointment at the breast clinic this coming Monday and I'm hoping to join this lovely site just for some support and information really :happy:
Over the last year or so I have been noticing a sharp stabbing pain in my left boob. It usually only came when I laughed or coughed but had never caused enough pain for me to think about getting it checked out. But I went on a little getaway with my friends a few weeks ago and it must have been all the laughing that I was doing because I noticed it causing me actual pain for the first time.
I tried to do a self exam and I couldn't feel anything at all, but it was hard hard to be sure exactly where the pain was coming from as it just caused a deep burning sensation in my whole boob.
When I got home I called my GP and had a telephone appointment with him and after telling him about the pain he slotted me in an appointment at the surgery straight away the same day so he could do an examination.
He couldn't feel anything around where I'd said I thought the pain was coming from, but he did find a lump a little higher up in the same boob.
He said he would be referring me to the Breast clinic. He told me he suspected it could be a fibrodenoma but asked me if I had a family history of breast or bowel cancer. I've just had my appointment date come through as next Monday.
I'm really hoping that I will be able to come back to this post In am few weeks and prove myself wrong, but I can't shake this unwavering feeling that it's breast cancer. I'm only 22, so the odds really should be in my favour, but ever since I felt the pain it's like my brain has prepared me for the worst. What's strange is that it doesn't even feel like a worry. More just like something that I know is happening and am getting ready to deal with. Did anyone else feel like this when they were in the early stages of finding out what was wrong?
My dad passed away from lung cancer when he was 29, so "you're too young/ there's a one in a million chance of this happening" doesn't ease my nerves in the slightest and is possibly the reason my brain has already gone into fight or flight mode.
Anway, thank you for reading. I would really appreciate any words of wisdom you have to share.
Love and light to you all,
Bethany x
