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mom3band1g
mom3band1g Member Posts: 817
edited June 2014 in DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ)

So it's been 1 1/2 yrs since diagnosis (hard to believe!)  I had my exchange surgery this past November.  I haven't been to my bs since last October.  I have had a small lump on my neck for about 3 weeks.  I'm not sick and haven't been sick.  It's round and hard.  For now I am just planning on showing it to my surgeon when I see her in Oct.  It's so hard to not let your mind go to the 'what if' place.  Just tell me it's all fine please and I am just being paranoid or ridiculous or dramatic or whatever.  Thanks.

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  • starbeauty
    starbeauty Member Posts: 327
    edited August 2011

    Mom3band... Can't really tell you what your lump is, but I had one in my shoulder near where my port was... Called my bs freaking out... She said it was probably just a cyst... Not to worry... Not BC. It shrunk a week later and now I have something similar in the small of my back... Again round... Not painful. All just to say... It is probably nothing, but show your MD.

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  • mom3band1g
    mom3band1g Member Posts: 817
    edited August 2011

    Thanks starbeauty!

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  • OldOakTree
    OldOakTree Member Posts: 173
    edited August 2011

    Mom3 - could it be a lipoma?

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  • mom3band1g
    mom3band1g Member Posts: 817
    edited August 2011

    I don;t know....what do they feel like?

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  • dsj
    dsj Member Posts: 277
    edited August 2011

    Almost certain to be unrelated. But why not go to you primary care physician and ask what it is. I started having leg pain and immediately started to "go there.". After several weeks of low-level worry, I went to my internist. He took an x-ray (mostly for my peave of mind I think.). He said it was probably tendon-related and prescribed alleve. Long story short:why put youself through two months of worry.

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  • mom3band1g
    mom3band1g Member Posts: 817
    edited August 2011

    Ok, thanks dsj.  I called my GP today and she said if it isn't gone in 2 months to see an ENT.  I guess I'll just try and pretend it isn't there  and go with my Oct appt with the BS!  I'm sure it's nothing!

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  • J9W
    J9W Member Posts: 395
    edited August 2011

    Hi Mom3band1g, it's so hard to get the brain around the 'it's probably nothing'. In early June I was shocked to feel a lump at the top of new foob (right mastectomy August 2009) and so between now and then I go back and forth....it's something, it's nothing, did I really even feel anything???  You know how that goes. So finally, last week I asked my hubby to feel the area and tell me if he could feel a lump. He could. So, lo and behold, tomorrow I have my six month follow-up appointment with my BS and of course today I can't really feel if there is a lump there!! UGH, I really think my mind likes to play games.

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  • mom3band1g
    mom3band1g Member Posts: 817
    edited August 2011

    J9w-  your post made me laugh!  Maybe it was a bit of fat necrosis?  I have a little lump near my sternum but it comes and goes and I'm pretty sure it's fat or something else benign.  It's kind of rubbery so it doesn't really bother me.  Hope your appt goes well tomorrow!  I skipped my last 6m check up and am kind of kicking myself.  good luck!

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  • mom3band1g
    mom3band1g Member Posts: 817
    edited September 2011

    Well, now I'm a little more worried.  The lump is getting bigger.  I was wrong about my appt and it's actually Sept 6.  I don't know what this could be.  I really don't think it's bc related but what the heck?

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  • dsj
    dsj Member Posts: 277
    edited September 2011

    I still think it's unlikelynto be related, but It's good that you can talk to your BC tomorrow. Let us know how things turn out, please



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  • CTMOM1234
    CTMOM1234 Member Posts: 633
    edited September 2011

    I agree with dsj that it's most likely nothing to be worried about, but please do let us know how it turns out. Wishing you the very best.

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