Hi all, 

Over lockdown I started getting pain under my left armpit and in the left breast and some blood stained nipple discharge. I left it around 7 months before finally seeing my GP who referred me to the clinic, they did a mammogram that found nothing and an ultrasound that found a few enlarged lymph nodes in November, but as they couldn't extract any 'blood/fluid' left me for 4 weeks until mid December to see me again. Much was the same at the December appointment and I returned on Monday this week and on examination there was discharged from the nipple and just below it too. So now I'm booked in for full milk duct removal on the 18th January. Im 41 this Friday, and scared that with a tumour thats benign on my pituitary gland in my brain and uncontrollable epilepsy, this could be more bad news on the way! I've had several benign lumps removed from my breasts since my early 20's so the surgery itself isn't worrying me, I guess its the combination of the bleeding, swollen nodes, and the speed they are doing it even with this pandemic happening.

Sorry to be new and downloading but, with teenage children, and a amazing husband whose mum has terminal breast cancer currently, I feel like I can't lay my concerns on to him right now.

E x