New dimpling after 2.5 years

LoveTheWatcher

Hi all!

I last posted here about 2.5 years ago when I found a long, flat spot (nearly three inches in diameter - I have HUGE breasts) on the bottom of my breast. After four months of inconclusive mammograms and ultrasounds and a lot of "we know something's going on here but we don't know what", I finally had a bilateral MRI. My breast surgeon called me to tell me that she saw no evidence of cancer and believed the flattening was caused by fibrocystic breast tissue.

She told me to follow up three months later if the spot was still there, but three months later I was sitting at my father's deathbed and for a long time afterwards, the flat spot on my breast never crossed my mind.

After talking with a friend who encouraged me to go in for a follow up exam (even 2.5 years later and now living on the other side of the country from my surgeon), I examined my breast again. The flat spot only appears when my arm is lifted - but now it is more indented than flat and there's a deep dimple (about a centimeter in diameter) immediately next to it.

I'm relatively new in my state and didn't yet have an OBGYN. After getting a referral from a friend for a trusted one, I found out that she can't see me until May 31st, so her nurse practitioner suggested that I ask my breast surgeon (again, 2.5 years later and on the other side of the country) if she would write me a script for a diagnostic mammo/us in the meantime. And because my surgeon is an absolute rockstar, she agreed!

My mammo/us are scheduled for this coming Thursday morning at the local breast center.

I can't seem to stop myself from doing as much research as I possibly can about whether or not fibrocystic breast disease can cause such dimpling. Everything I've read makes it seem like if it was FBD, the dimpling would have resolved by now, and that the vast majority of dimpling is because of breast cancer.

I know that MRIs can be fallible, so there's a small chance that the radiologist may not have caught something that has continued to grow in my breast in my extremely dense breasts. Or that there's something new there causing the new dimple.

I'm trying (and failing) not to be afraid of what may be lurking inside my breast.

And to round out my fears, I'm a pastor who just had a congregant (who has been going on her own adventure with breast cancer testing) call me to tell me she's been diagnosed with cancer. Her meeting with her surgeon is at the same time as my diagnostic mammo/us. I know that's not a sign of anything - we are two very different people with two very different (and different aged! She's in her late 60s and I'm 31) breasts. But it still feels spooky to me.

Oh ladies, stuff like this proves to me that I'm not as fearless as I think I am...