Think my story started around late summer last year. I noticed a new line across the bottom of my breast. Don’t have a lot of breast tissue anyway & thought it was a saggy age thing. I’m 58. Laid on the floor playing with my dog in October( he was ill so I remember when) I got what felt like a burning, stinging pain. Like a firework exploding. Thought I’d just caught myself funny. Examined & felt nothing. Had my Covid booster in November & got a lot of swelling & soreness in my boob/armpit & that was when I thought maybe there’s something going on. Again examined & felt nothing & it settled down. January agin playing with my dog on the floor I got the burning, stinging pain again but so much worse. Take your breath away pain. Knew then I needed to go somewhere. Tried for 2 weeks to get a doctors appointment. Got 1 for a further 3 weeks away only for them to cancel it. Then made an appointment with a BUPA gp, but knock in effect from nhs crisis meant another 3 week wait. 2 days before this I got Covid & couldn’t attend. I’ve got an elderly mum in a care home who became ill & that then took priority. I eventually saw a BUPA gp on Monday last week. I knew what was wrong before I went in; my breast had changed shape. A ridge had appeared. Her expression after she examined me just confirmed my thoughts. I saw a consultant on Friday, who confirmed in words what was going on. This was then quickly followed by mammograms, ultrasound & biopsies. The problem I have is on my left side but they’ve found calcification on my right. Had a CT scan & blood taken for tests yesterday. Got to go for a bone scan at some point. Just waiting for results now. I feel that there is not enough info out there that these things can happen & there is no lump to feel. That’s the thing that you’re somehow conditioned to check for but it can happen & there not be a lump.
I’m a pretty calm almost too laid back person in general but finding the borderline panic attacks a struggle. Trying to be positive but there’s that niggle in the back of my mind constantly.
Hi Copperkettle
Welcome to the forum and sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with breast cancer. It's perfectly understandable that you are struggling at the moment. Finding out you have breast cancer is scary particularly as you couldn't feel a lump. Breast cancer is very treatable specially when it's caught early which hopefully yours has.
Try to keep yourself busy by doing the things that you love which helps to take your mind off things if only for a little while.
Wishing you the best of luck with your results.
Best wishes
Daisy53
Hi Copperkettle
I am sorry that you find yourself here but hopefully you will find as much support on this forum as I have. The ladies on here have a lots of useful information and are all on different paths. Waiting for results is the worst part but once I knew what I was dealing with and had a treatment plan it became more manageable.
I wish you loads of luck and send you lots of positive vibes 
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My arm pit became sore after the Covid jab. I googled it and felt it explained why it could happen. Just over 2 wks later I got a painful spasm in my boob that went on for hours. A week later I saw the breast dimple. Then I knew.
The usual thing, 2 wks wait for appt after seeing GP. Mammogram and biopsy under scan guidance. They said it was a suspicious mass. I just knew it would be surgery. I must have got a cancellation, op early Dec. Wide excision lumpectomy and total node removal. 30 nodes removed and 1 had cancer in it.
It is still a sense of unreality, chemo not needed according to Oncotype DX, just radiotherapy. That was Feb / March time. Now on hormone blockers. Still doing exercises to keep the arm and shoulder moving but not so much. It's so hard at the beginning with all the uncertainty, then shock if the confirmation and preparing oneself for the next stage. When each thing came I just wanted to get it over with. Being strong becomes sort of a mindset. I just want to wring as much life out of this body that I can.
I wish you well, you can do this just like
we have. It's still my body not quite the same, I have reclaimed it xx️
