Hi everyone, happy new year to you all.
I received an urgent referral for suspected breast cancer on the 23rd Dec. Currently waiting for scans etc. I was told to expect a delay in my local area. Hoping to hear something this week.
I'm 35 and noticed my right breast started to look and feel a little heavier in august. But I decided to wait and see if it was linked to my cycle.. Sept & Oct I was in the middle of moving house, but in November after the move I realized after taking my shirt off how different my right breast looked to the left, it was drooping low like I had breast fed 3 babies - I’ve never had kids. It was noticeably bigger and it felt like I had a heavy weight behind my nipple. The other really big change was my areola was so much bigger than it’s ever been and twice the size of my left. That's what really caught my attention that something wasn't right.
I think I put off going to the GP because I didn’t want to seem like I was overreacting initially. Finally in December it was getting worse and I started feeling a weird pain, i saw the word pain loosely. It's not anything cyclical breast pain. It’s this dull weird feeling, like fullness and weight, I also feel like a warm electric or fizzing sensation deep in my breast sometimes. My nipple is also almost always pointing downwards like a weight is pushing the last 1/3 of my breast downwards while my left is still perky. I've also noticed in the last 10 days part of my areola looks like its being pulled but i'm not sure if that's because the areola has grown SO much in size. It looks so odd to me. I do have thickening, and after having a good poke around, there are some lumpy hard masses in addition to the thickening from what I can feel.
All I can say is, something feels very wrong. I can’t explain the feeling, my right breast feels very strange. I probably waited too long to get it checked but because I’ve had the mirena for 14 years I wanted to make sure it was not cyclical and it was only happening to one breast. I've had like 8 cycles and my breast symptoms consistently stay the same and have been slowly getting worse. I have also been extremely fatigued and have had no appetite since sept - I eat probably once a day and that’s it. I do have other chronic conditions so I could find an explanation for most things but not the breast symptoms.
I don’t know if I’m allowed to ask if anyone has had similar experience? Or if there’s been an experience of a benign condition with similar symptoms?
I know no one here is a doctor so i'm not actually looking for medical advice, but when trying to understand my symptoms since they are not the normal lump in the boob, I just feel a little lost at sea. 2.5 weeks of waiting so far, and I actually feel much calmer. I know what will be, will be. But i am very very new to the process. My dad died suddenly of pancreatic cancer and macmillan were great during that a few years ago so wanted to check out the website.
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Good morning Tori
i totally agree with the Karen . You are not wasting anyone time with you going to the doctors. You know your body . I send you all the best and 
That’s good to know. I had bloods done last week and there’s no sign of infection which makes me wonder what’s going on. The wait continues 
