Palpable lymph nodes

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Kcabrera
Kcabrera Member Posts: 44
edited October 2016 in Just Diagnosed

Did anyone else have palpable underarm lymph nodes before they were diagnosed

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  • xxyzed
    xxyzed Member Posts: 230
    edited September 2016

    I did. This is what made me go to the doctor as I thought the muscles under one arm looked bigger than the muscles under the other arm. It turned out to be enlarged lymph nodes. Very small multiple cancers in the breast and all lymph nodes under the arm were cancerous

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  • Kcabrera
    Kcabrera Member Posts: 44
    edited September 2016

    Thank you for responding - I have two that I can feel. It takes my mind to dark places. I hope you'r doing well!

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  • xxyzed
    xxyzed Member Posts: 230
    edited September 2016

    I'm doing just fine. In the trenches of chemo land at the moment. Not the worst thing I've been through. Barely a blip in comparison to my first pregnancy and my husbands cancer and death. The what ifs can be pretty bad if you let your mind go there. There's lots of reasons for enlarged lymph nodes. Get it checked out but I choose not to panic until I'm told there's something to worry about. You drive yourself crazy otherwise

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  • inks
    inks Member Posts: 746
    edited September 2016

    Yes, but it ended up having only micromets.

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  • Kcabrera
    Kcabrera Member Posts: 44
    edited September 2016

    Thanks inks - I'm just so worried that since mine are palpable, that it has spread, if it is in fact BC.

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  • Blinkie
    Blinkie Member Posts: 169
    edited September 2016

    One of my left side lymph nodes was palpable. The node was biopsied at the same time as the breast. Node was okay. Breast was diagnosed as DCIS but was found after surgery to include invasive ductal carcinoma, very small. I didn't have a sentinel node procedure because we thought it was DCIS. I received radiation to the left breast and the left nodes, which the Radiation Oncologist thought would be enough if there was any tiny bit of invasive cancer in the nodes. I hope he is right!

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  • Molly50
    Molly50 Member Posts: 3,773
    edited September 2016

    Yes, I could feel the node under my arm. It ended up being a 1.7 cm tumor.

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  • NoWhyToIt
    NoWhyToIt Member Posts: 87
    edited October 2016

    Unless you know you have BC you should not be worrying about lymph nodes. I had both. 3 years later, I'm fine. So try to rest easy till information comes.

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited October 2016

    If you would post in your Profile what your DX (diagnosis) is , it would be easier for ones to give pertinent replies.

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