Worried and waiting

I’m glad you’ve spoken to your doctor. I had pain like that - sometimes shooting pains in my breast. I was told it was hormonal but when I had breast cancer surgery my surgeon also removed something called a fibroadenoma. It was harmless but my surgeon said the position it was in was likely a cause of my breast pain (it interfered with the normal action of the nipple tendons). It’s not something they’d normally operate on, but I suppose as they were in there anyway… 

I’ve since been told that the breast pain I experienced frequently was actually a red herring and nothing to do with my later cancer. However, being in pain is never good and there are several benign but treatable conditions that can cause breast pain. Hopefully in your case it isn’t cancer and you can get some relief but you’ve done the right thing in reporting it.

Thank you. I’m so sorry you were diagnosed with BC. I really appreciate your response. Did you ever have scans done for the pains? 

No, the pain was investigated at the same time as my breast cancer so there was no need.

So the pain led you to your breast cancer discovery? That’s definitely my concern too…

No a routine mammogram lead to the discovery of my cancer. But I complained that the mammogram hurt a lot, which my doctor noted, but that didn’t turn out to be connected. But he did remove a large benign fibroadenoma whilst operating on my breast, in the hope that that would help (which it seems to have done).

I had an exam today. The dr said she felt no lumps but that one breast felt more dense in an area than the other. She is sending me in for a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound. I am really worried now.