Itching right breast

Pambras

Thank You Amelia, I was so serious that I was not going to rest until I had exhausted my options. My sister was told she had an infection in a milk duct by her small town Dr. No one would listen when she told them she was in pain and you could feel a mass.. The hospital ER told her it was NOT cancer if it hurt, that she had to listen to her DR. eventually she got a second mammogram and DR was on 3 way call apologizing that same day. he ended up passing away and I raised her two girls. We women have to be loud sometimes for them to hear us.. It is our bodies

My sisters Breast Cancer surgeon told her that 7% of women will have pain with their cancer.

Lula73

Pambras - that’s Great News!!

TracyLG - I replied in another post you made and later deleted. Some of the responses you received on there were very short and not helpful. My advice would be to push like Pambras did to get some definitive answers with a biopsy.

djmammo

Vickie81058

Are there any visible changes in the skin in the area of the itching that have developed over this last year? Discoloration? Thickening? Lump? Is there a visible or palpable target that you want your doctor to biopsy?

If you can, please post for us the reports of any breast imaging you've had over the past year.

Lula73

About the symptoms we notice in retrospect:

Itch: Why is something like itching just brushed off when you’ve tried multiple remedies that should’ve taken care of it. Doesn’t it make sense that something as innocuous as an itch is a sign that something is going on in that tissue? At the very least a histamine reaction and at the other end of the spectrum, cancer. If you’ve ruled out the common causes then it should be looked at from the standpoint of something not as common, not brushed off. Unfortunately there are women who won’t push their doc or who won’t change doctors if their doc won’t listen to what they’re telling them - it’s just not their personality or they look at the docs like they are never wrong.

Fatigue: who in today’s society isn’t fatigued? Everything and everyone is crazy busy. It’s no wonder we don’t always notice it or we do and chalk it up to the craziness of our lives, bad nights’ sleep, stress, etc.

Hair: I’ve had 4 different types of cancer to date. Each time my hair was falling out at a greater than usual rate. When I’d wash my hair my hands would come away covered in at least a fine layer of hair - enough to almost cover the drain in my shower. After treatment it stopped. My hair fell out for months prior to my first cancer diagnosis. And it STOPPED falling out 1/2 way through chemo and started growing back while still on chemo. Had melanoma and Mom had said something about how much hair was on my jacket (more than a few strands) about 3 months prior. I brushed it off as normal winter shed. Didn’t put 2&2 together at the time but did after diagnosis. Ultrasound and biopsy missed the thyroid cancer. Mammo missed the breast cancer. My left breast (the one with just calcifications in a comet shape) was itchy quite often and had some nipple irritation/skin changes like it was very dry. Moisturizing seemed to help some in the short run for the skin changes. I was fatigued every time but there was always something going on that I could easily chalk it up to. But my hair was falling out... I told my current MO that I’m just watching my hair from now on.