Under 30 & would like to connect

gouldstyle

I was diagnosed at 27 and have been in remission for a year in October.  There are so many of us!!  It's too bad, especially when most of us have the same story - "our doctors told us we were too young".  Hang in there ladies!  We will all be old biddies before you know it!

PS There is a really cool group called "I'm too young for this" or I2Y! that deals with young people and cancer.  They also work to get more awareness and funding for our age group.  The guy who started it is pretty funny too - one of their lines is "stupid cancer".  Ha!  

Vicki26

Hi,

I was diagnosed on April this year. and i am 26 years old. I have been misdiagnosed for couple times because the doctors told i was too young to get breast cancer. I am fear that I can not have child in the future. Do any of you had children after your cancer treatment?

Think_Pink88

Hi I am 21, and was diagnosed last November, I have been going through chemo since January 2009, and am still going through treatments today, if you ever want to talk or have any questions, msg me back

mkk050709

Hi, I am 29 and was diagnosed about a month ago.  I have had 3 treatments and have 5 more to go.  Then we will do surgery.  Same story as most.  Dr.'s said I was to young when I presented with a lump.  We watched it grow for a couple of months before anyone would do anything about it.  I have three little ones (4, 2 and 5 mos) and I actually found the lump while I was breast feeding the new baby.  This is a very difficult time.  We all need to encourage each other.  I figure that I can spend the rest of my life living or the rest of my life dying and I chose to live.  My God is an awesome God and he is always in control and you can find peace in knowing that God has everything under control.  We just have to learn to give it all to him!  Bless you all. 

sfbrown

I would love to chat with you.  I was diagnosed on Aug 13 with breast cancer at the age of 28.

MeredithK02

Hi, I hope I'm not jumping in too late here.  I'm 28 and was just diagnosed last month.  I've already had a bilateral mastectomy and will meet with an oncology team in a few weeks to go over treatment options.  I feel really lucky that everything moved quickly.  I'd made an appointment with my primary care doctor to get a pre-conception checked since DH and I were ready to start a family.  She found a lump I hadn't known about (fibrous breasts) and said it was probably a cyst, but since it might affect breastfeeding, she referred me to a surgeon.  He did an ultrasound and learned it wasn't a cyst, but most likely a fibroadenoma, especially given my age.  But since it might interfere with breastfeeding, he took it out the following week, then we got the pathology report.... 

 So now, even though my baby fever has been changed into get-rid-of-cancer fever, I'm really glad that I made that initial appointment and that everything moved so quickly after that!  It's nice to see so many others here...most people don't know anyone with BC this young, so most stories are about someone's grandmother or aunt.  Although I obviously wish that none of you had BC, I'm glad you're here to share your stories!

mela4409

Just caught this post...I was diagnosed at 24 just about a year ago.  If you ever need anyone to talk to just send me a message.  My prayers are with you.

lexislove

I just wanted to pop in and say to all you young woman...you can and will beat this.

I was diagnosed at 30, my daughter wasn't even 2 yet. I was misdiagnosed as well. I was told I was too young and to wait to see what happens. Well..my lump grew to 8cm before my old physician sent me for a mammogram. I did the whole 9 yards...you can see my stats in my signature below.

I celebrated my 2 year cancerversary on Sep 14. Never thought I would ever get there, but I am. My daughter will be 4 on Oct 30. We plan to have two celebrations that day.

When you are feeling sick and tired of treatment and just plain tired of being sick and tired of everything....remember that it is all temporary and you will get your life back. The "new" normal.

Be well girls,

PS73

Hey ladies.  I just found this post.  I was dx at 35 two month bf my wedding.  We spent the honeymoon in the cancer ward.  yah.  im almost done w/ taxol/herceptin and then prob onto rads.  no tamoxifen.  we did fertility. I know a woman who was dx at 32.  No kids yet.  Went thru the entire treatment and when she was done decided to adopt.  She didn't want to deal w/ waiting five years w/ tamoxifen and all the possiblities of losing a baby to this disease.  When she finished the tamox she got her period back and got pregnant.  her baby is four I think now?  Just wanted to drop by and say hello.  My mom thinks its what she and the other moms fed us since so many of us young women are getting dx by the dozen.  Poor dear.

mllelavigne

Hi, I was diagnosed on maternity leave at 28, 2 years ago. It took over 3 months for the doctors to get the diagnosis right. I had actually been told not to worry, that I didn't have cancer by my GP and by my first surgeon, by the time they got it right, the mass was 22 cm by 12 cm.

Mastectomy, Chemo (4AC and 4T), 8 weeks of radiation, one recurrence, more surgery and going for my TRAM TOMORROW!

To all the young women out there, there is light, and somtimes it's not just at the END of the tunnel. Every milestone has been amazing for me. When I noticed that the mastectomy scar was almost invisible, when they took the PICC line out, when the radiation burns started to go away and finally, when I noticed that my eyelashes were starting to grow back, all these moments kept me going until things started to get back to normal (whatever that is, now).

 Keep talking and stay strong!

Leslie 

vicchick

Wow so many of us out there.  I am 27 and was diagnosed this past June.  Had surgery and now going through chemo followed by radiation and tamoxifen.  Seems so overwhelming at times, but comforting to know there are others out there that have made it through this craziness.  Gives me hope that I too will see an end to this. 

jmar19

I was originally diagnosed at 28 and am now 32 with a reaccurance.  I'm currently going through treatment.  Feel free to contact me.

hdangelbaby

I was just on facebook, looking at pics of my beautiful friends, with their beautiful hair, and beautiful bodies, and I started crying... I know it's not true, but I feel like I will never be that again, I have all these friends who are my age, and gorgeous and full of life cause hell we are in our 20's and 30's, and I'm rocking a hat or scarf, and i just don't feel all that pretty right now. I know part of it is nerves about chemo tomorrow, but I just want my life back!! I want to have parties, and have my awesome hair back, and not have painful hemmorhoids, and pee in my sleep. I just want to be my young self again, and I feel old and tired. All the time. This is not a good night.....

hydeskate

I was dx at 29 with Stage IV, now 32 finished treatment for now currently NED. 

Lisas_husband

My wife was just diagnosed last week.  She turned 28 last month.  I'm trying to find how some of the husbands coped watching their loved one go through hell.  And when I say husbands, I mean the ones that are younger.  Its a tough to relate to someone who has been married 20 years and going through this versus married for just a year.  Being a guy, I want to fix it and solve the problem, but I know that is not going to be the case.  

jcoutee

lisas_husband-  I was dx with bc in dec. 2010.  I am 28 and me and my husband have been married for 5 years.  We have 2 little girls, 3 and 6 months.  My husband has been incredible since all this began.  He has been there at night when it's just us, no friends or family.  That has been the best time for us, its crazy but bc has brought us closer.  Its times like this when you need to be there for each other the most.  The main thing I asked of him was to let me cry.  Some days I want to cry and I didn't want him to tell me "it's ok, you'll be fine"  just let me cry...

aim3e

This website is awesome.
I am 26 years old and have just been diagnosed with "high grade intraduct carcinoma"

comedo and clinging growth pattern

no invasive carcinoma identified

involves approx. 1cm sampled breast tissue

carcinoma in situ is present within 0.1cm of biopsy margins

background of florid fibrocystic change, including radial scar formation, sclerosing adenosis, columnar cell alteration and atypical ductal epithelial hyperplasia

not sure where to go next with this.. Well I have the contrasting MRI for tomorrow, just so much information... and very overwhelming I dont even know what half of that means..

sunnygirl22

can you tell me a little more about your journey? I just turned 31 and my sister who is 32 almost 33, was just diagnosed with IDC llla with 2+ lymph nodes. I made this page for the both of us and haven't seen alot of young women on here with the same dx. Need a little reassurance! Thanks!