More breast changes after breast clinic appointment

FormerMember
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Hey everyone,

I joined the community a few weeks ago after finding a dimple in my right breast and being referred to the breast clinic.

This place was brilliant for support and keeping me away from Dr Google so a big thank you!!

My appointment went well, I had an ultrasound just on the area around the dimple and was advised all clear. I was so very grateful for how well I was looked after and relieved too.

I am 38 with 3 boys, 5 years old and 22month old twins.

Since then however I have a 2nd dimple to the side of my breast (1st one was under) and also a small pea size lump/lymph node just above the new dimple.

Do I go back to my Dr? I hate wasting anyones time but can't help worrying as my whole breast wasn't screened.

I haven't even told hubby as he was so relieved all was ok.

Am I being silly? I am an overthinker!

Any advice or experience with something similar?

Xx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi there

    i would definitely go back...I’m not saying that because o think it’s anything to worry about as may well

    be nothing but it’s vital to go and check any changes you have and That’s what the doctors are there for

    i had a lump for 25 years which I had biopsied when I was 20

    and it was all clear / a fibroid ..this made me complacent and resulted in cancer cells attaching themselves to the original fibroadenoma..so it’s always best to check!

    good luck and I’m sure you will get the all clear again 

    Nicola 

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to FormerMember

    Thanks Nicola,

    I am so reluctant as its so close to my last appointment and don't want to be a bother.

    The people at the breast clinic were so lovely and did say they'd happily see me again if I saw any further changes.

    Maybe a chat with my Dr would be ok and put my mind at rest if she doesnt think its anything to worry about.

    Thank you so much for your reply. Really appreciated x

  • hi

    call the breast unit that saw you and explain that there are further changes

    what did they say had caused the dimple ?

    I have found the radiologists to be very good at talking through what they are looking at, more so than surgeons or oncologists

    In my case I had had a mammogram in 2012 which was just reported as clear, then I had all sorts of symptoms but none were classic breast cancer, I always had lumpy breasts and none of the lumps felt any different until I went bra shopping and my inner arm brushed my breast and it just felt different, different to checking with my hands. 

    From May through to June I was put through the diagnostic process and scheduled for surgery on the 1st July 2015 but a week before that surgery an actual lump popped up one morning and it was painful.

    I did laps of the house with a phone in each hand trying to get hold of the GP and the breast care nurse in a blind panic.

    In the end all the nurse said was you're scheduled for a mastectomy on the 1st anyway so in my case it shouldn't have made a difference

    But it did because the surgeon followed the original MRI report and cut neatly around the new lump, leaving it in my breast slightly obscured by the implant reconstruction 

    If it hadn't been painful I wouldn't have realised it was still there. 

    Dimples and lumps are classic signs of breast cancer but they can also be caused by cysts, the only way to know for sure is to get them checked and get an accurate assessment from the professionals 

    Breast cancer is scary but it's much easier to treat and cure when it's caught early.

    You had a good experience don't feel like you're imposing or wasting their time, you're not. 

    https://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/information-support/have-i-got-breast-cancer/benign-breast-conditions

    that's a link to get you up to speed on other breast conditions

    I hope that helps

    let me know when you've made the call, please

    Smiley

    hugs

    Carolyn

    xxxx

     real life success stories to remind you that people do survive breast cancer

    https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/breast-cancer/f/38/t/115457

    Dr Peter Harvey

    https://www.workingwithcancer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/After-the-treatment-finishes-then-what.pdf

     

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to Carolyn28

    Hi

    Thank you so much for your reply. Really appreciate it.

    They said the dimple was probably just general breast changes due to age.

    I am 38

    I only noticed the peasize lump/lymphnode last night in bed as when I laid on my side it feel achey so I had a little feel and found it.

    The 2nd dimple has appeared about a week ago.

    I do feel with the additional changes a full breast screen/ultrasound is needed now.

    I will call the clinic tomorrow. Thank you so much for putting my mind at rest that i'm not being silly.

    I will let you know how I get on

    Thank you xxxx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hello you could contact your GP or just contact the breast care clinic you went to before direct. I know when my daughter went about a lump, which turned out to be nothing synister, she was told by the breast care nurses to contact them any time if she had any worries about anything and they would have her in even if it was just to put her mind at rest.

    You will not be wasting anyone's time & you are not being silly.

    let us know how you get one, hopefully they'll tell you the same as last time. 

  • I don’t understand why they didn’t check the whole breast st the first appt.  when I had a swelling in my arm pit at 40 they did a mammogram of both breasts followed by US of armpit with swelling and then a manual examination.  The swelling was a fat pad so no issue but a full check was reassuring.  

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to Grogg

    Morning and

    I have just called the breast clinic who advised I would need a referral from the Dr again. So am now waiting for the surgery to call me back.

    I guess its just a case of showing the Dr the new changes and possibly being referred all over again.

     I am not sure either why the whole breast wasn't looked at. I had a full examination of both breasts but the ultrasound concentrated only on the area around the dimple nowhere else. Like you say it would have been reassuring to have had the whole breast screened.

    Hopefully it is nothing and just me overthinking but thank you all for giving me the courage to call and to get checked again 

    Xx

  • let us know how you get on

    Carolyn

    xxx

     real life success stories to remind you that people do survive breast cancer

    https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/breast-cancer/f/38/t/115457

    Dr Peter Harvey

    https://www.workingwithcancer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/After-the-treatment-finishes-then-what.pdf

     

  • have you had a follow up appointment