Your Symptoms

Hi mine started with an itch on my right breast could feel a hard lump it was sort of craggy and I knew it was different from the cysts I had previously, diagnosed same day I had biopsy I knew it was serious it was a nightmare.

No lump called back from first routine screening!  Still no lump as I just had breast calcificationd 

Luckily called for a routine mammogram when i was 47 was called back to be told i had BC didn't have a clue until the doctor pointed it out to me. I had a hard flat area which changed throughout the month, i thought it was all monthly cycle related so never worried about it. 

Once i was diagnosed i made every friend male and female feel it so they knew if it ever happened to them or a loved one to go get it checked out. 

My MRI after chemo showed No Cancer :O) 

i was 50 when i was diagnosed - found a lump about 2cm across, squidgy and painful.  quite a few people said to ignore it - if it's painful, it's a cyst!

both my parents died of cancer tho so i trotted off to the GP who also thot it was a cyst but referred me anyway - thankfully!

hadn't had a mammogram as round here it's a van and i had just missed it. when i asked to be referred after my birthday i was told no, wait for the van.

after mammogram i was immediately sent for ultrasound and biopsy - they found a 2nd lump next to the first and a third under my arm.

so i am, weirdly, grateful to the squidgy lump - without it the cancer mite have had up to 2 and a half years to run riot 

now i'm banging the drum bout getting lumps or anything out of the ordinary checked out.  i even talked a work colleague who's just turned 50 into demanding a mammogram.  she got it and she's clear - yay!  she said she was surprised at how relieved she felt and has now joined me in the drum banging lol

but this doesn't help the under 50's - it's past time that mammograms were given with smear tests

Totally agree with you Shiny luckily where I live they have started offering them at 47 off I went thinking all will be fine and it wasn’t. 

When I tell people I’m lucky to be having treatment for breast cancer they look at me strange, the alternative was not being called early and having the bloody thing growing for another 3 years before I had a mammogram and that doesn’t even bare thinking about. Would I have even been around to have it. Although I still think 47 is too late who knows how long I’ve had it. 

But I count myself lucky  

Hi

I found my lump by chance whilst having a shower having had a ' clear' mammogram 3 months earlier. I went to my GP the day after and saw the consultant within a week. Scanned and biopsied on the same day. Came back as Grade 2 Her2+. I opted for mastectomy and node clearance. This was in 2017. The next year was a bit rough with chemo but I have now been given the all clear and am on hormone treatment for 10 years. I have come out the other side thankfully. It is a journey nobody wants to make but I had excellent care and will forever be in NHS debt.

I'm 43 ! And I have been having on and off pain in my left breast and earlier this week found a small lump under my nipple and since yesterday been having pain in the back of my shoulder. I know the breast pain and little lump is not cyclical and plan to have this checked but is the pain in the back of my shoulder also a sign ! 

For me it started by me feeling extremely tired all the time, and just feeling not quite right in myself although I couldn’t pin point what was wrong with me. I also was having night sweats, hot flushes during the day for about a year. I put it down to possible early menopause as my mother went through menopause in early 40’s. FF to about 3 months ago I noticed upper back pain which I put down to stress, muscle pain etc. Then I noticed my right breast looking bigger than normal and kind of growing towards my armpit. I explained it away as weight gain so I upped my fitness regime but I didn’t see a reduction. End of August I noticed clear discharge from my nipple so I did a decent self exam, I saw the dimpling and felt the lump and that’s when I took myself to the GP and the rest is history. I’ve had 2 biopsies( one was yesterday) which was a horrible experience and I’m all bruised and swollen. I’m waiting for results and final plan. I’m only 41, so would not even be on anyone’s radar.

Hi Ruva, sorry to hear what you are going through and i hope everything else going forward is smooth and positive.  But your right being 41 you probably not be on anyone's radar and its crazy how we try to just explain away our symptons. I've been waiting a few weeks in the hope my breast pain would go away but it just comes and goes and even with the little lump...I'm still trying to tell my self it's a normal lump around the nipple but the back shoulder pain is challenging me today .  Let's hope for some positive news over-the next few weeks . 

I started with a pain and a lump which was consistent and only flared up at night, waited 3 weeks then eventually went doctors who referred me, 2 weeks later mammogram and ultrasound and biopsies done where he said on his opinion a small cancer, 10 days later confirmed grade 3 invasive ductual breast cancer oestrogen positive and her2 positive and in at least 2 lymph nodes and that was the lump I could feel, the main lump I haven't felt. Chemo 1st one more left plus have started phesgo injections which I will have for a year then scan to see if shrunk and hopefully discuss when surgery will be and then radiotherapy.