Fibrocystic Breasts

Lavender250;

All your questions and concerns are completely justified questions and concerns.

The long and short of it all is this: If you find a lump in your breast, get it checked. We do not have the expertise the Doctors have to distinguish what seems "like cancer" and what does not.Realistically, there is no way to know for sure what it is without a biopsy.

Cysts can be anywhere in your breasts and they all can feel different.

The fact that it moves around or not really matters none to your state of mind as it is a lump that wasn't there before.

What for your appointment and go from there. try not to google any more as it only puts your mind in far more distress than is needed.

Don't be afraid to ask questions to your Doctor. And if he/she says something you don't understand, tell them you didn't understand their answer and ask them to explain more clearly.

You cannot compare how your lump 'feels' to how a cancer lump 'looks' on the internet. Every singal lump out there well be differently shaped, textured, etc....

Tell you Doctor your concerns. Hope this helps hun.

I know at 27, you are scared. but you are doing the right thing right now and that is seeing the Doctor about it and getting it checked.

Thank you Lavender, yes, I am ok now I guess, I am still here!!! lol Yes, it is very scary and I can relate to all that you are going through.  For me the scariest part was where you are at now; not knowing, playing the waiting game between tests and getting lost in my own thoughts about it!  Once I knew and had a treatment plan in place I calmed down a lot.  You move from the anxious flight or fight mode into the let's get this done fight mode!  Here I am a year later and almost done with treatment (I am Her2+ so I have to be on Herceptin for a year total).  I had a very aggressive cancer so they threw the book at it (chemo, bilateral mastectomy and radiation) and so far it's worked!  So keep in mind that regardless what the outcome is you can do it!

We are all drowning in our own fears at one time or another.  If it is not about breast cancer, it is about something else.  I mean that seriously. At other times, often miraculously, we are not.

Your description of symptoms sound eerily familiar.  When I was 26 I had a fibro in one breast that was (or felt) enormous.  I had an open surgical biopsy to remove a small part of it for examination by the patholgists. The surgeon did not take more at that time because he did not want to leave me with an irregular looking breast.  I kept saying but what if it's cancer (my mother died of bc when I was a teenager) and he kept saying then we'll talk: right now this is what we are doing.  It was completely B9.  The huge fibro dissolved on its own over the next few years (it's barely there) but I remember being in a state of shock 1) because I was having breast surgery and was 30 years younger than my mom and 2) because I had NO IDEA really of what was going on.  I didn't even really understand a thing about the architectiure of the breast and this was stuff that happened to other people: at 26 I looked 15 and probably acted 13 about medical issues: either freaking or just like they didn't exist.  Hang in there, get it taken care of and I pray for your best results ever.  Sorry this isn't deeper or more meaningful but I think I know what you must be feeling and most of it is confusion that will be resolved

Amanda 

Lavender520,

I agree with Holly. I am a 4 yr IBC survivor, and I only had one symptom that was showing up when I got my diagnosis. I just kept pushing until I got IBC ruled out (or in, as this case was). It's important to know about what you might have (IBC). I am now a volunteer with the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Foundation (www.eraseibc.com) and invite you to look over our website, check out the videos, see what links we have that may be of assistance to you financially and otherwise, and know that there's help out there. Please let us know what happens. We all care.