First ever mammo and U/S - asymmetry??

StillAnxious

Hi all,

I’ve been dealing with unexplained pain around my right breast for about two weeks now. No visible changes, but it terrified me so much that I went to see my gyno yesterday. I’m 31. My maternal grandmother passed from BC that spread to her bones at age 67, before I was born. Nothing observed on clinical exam, but he’s very thorough and sent me for my first mammogram along with an ultrasound at our breast center.

Both ladies administering the tests took the scans to the doctor and came back about 15 minutes later to report everything was fine. The mammogram was even described as negative. Should’ve been a big sense of relief, right?

Worrier that I am, I went and read the report later in the day and now I’m hung up on one line. “Asymmetric breast tissue, lateral breast, middle third, still likely benign.”

No microcalcifications, mass, suspicious shadowing, or area of architectural distortion. “Limited ultrasound of area of focal tenderness” - um, I thought she did my entire breast?? - “identifies normal fibroglandular tissue.” Labeled as BIRADS-2, no follow-up recommended other than pain management at a clinical level and start regular screening at age 40.

As I was typing this out, my doctor called and essentially repeated the same thing that was on the report but left out the asymmetry. I asked and he said they use that wording sometimes when they think they see something but aren’t sure what it is, it’s a little vague, but they backed it up with the U/S and it doesn’t look like there’s anything there. Here comes the anxiety tailspin. I don’t see him for another month.

I...am so confused and have no sense of relief. I’ve never had a mammo before so I had no baseline as far as the asymmetry. I had a U/S years ago on the opposite breast that showed “fibrocystic disease of the breast”.

Am I just getting too wound up over this? Should I just place all my belief in what my doctor is saying? He never mentioned muscle strain as a factor ( told him I carried our 100lb dog up the stairs 2 weeks ago, shortly before this painstarted ). I’m kind of lost.