Hey, 

I have had a lump in my breast since March which has at least doubled in size but has stopped there and hasn't grew for a few months which I appreciate is a good sign. I'm only 22 but have been completely disregarded by Birmingham breast clinic - I have had 3 referrals from my GP (who have done the most they can) but once it got to the breast clinic it got rejected the first 2 times and on the 3rd I was given a telephone consultation by a senior consultant who said it 'sounds like' fibrodenoma which I do acknowledge it does but she refused to see me 'until it grows' not sure how you can tell someone wait for it to get worse then we will help? She told me in her 20 years of being a consultant she has seen a 24 year old have cancer, a 23 year old but never a 22 year old - my response to that was well wasn't you surprised when you saw those young girls? 
 

At first it was small and painless and since it has grew to the size of about a grape the pain has got increasingly worse - in the last month I'm now getting shooting pains numerous times a day in my arm pits that aren't going away, the breast with the lump in also experiences these shooting pains 

I can acknowledge it doesn't feel rooted and is moveable which is of course good signs - but the armpit pain is making me feel sick with worry - I've been told to live with the unknown for 8 months now. 
 

I went back to my GP with the armpit pain snd asked to be refered to a different locality and they gave me an appointment within 3 days which is for mid December so things are starting to look like I'm getting somewhere

My worry is this arm pit pain - it's in both arm pits I'm not unwell or suffering from any infection that I know of and it's been going on for at least 2 weeks now and I'm just so so worried. I had convinced myself that maybe it was fibroadenoma but now I'm fearing the worst. 
 

What also concerns me that I've been on birth control beginning with the pill since I was 13 which can of course increase the risk ever so slightly. 

 

please can anyone help? As I feel sick with worry constantly