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magicalunicorn
magicalunicorn Member Posts: 1
edited December 2016 in Waiting for Test Results

Hello,


28 year old UK newbie here.


I found a lump in my right breast on 1/12/16, I made an emergency appointment on 2/12/16 and was seen by my doctor that day. I also have discharge from the same breast. My doctor clearly felt the lump and sent me for some bloods for hormones and thyroid there and then.


I went back on 8/12/16 where she examined me again and so did the medical student.

They have since come back clear and I have been referred for an ultrasound for 20/12/16. I am very worried. Everything seems very urgent and the lump doesn't feel good.


Any advice please?


Thank you

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited December 2016

    Hi magicalunicorn,

    We're so sorry that you're here and worrying -- we're sending our best wishes for this to be nothing at all. At your age, it's very probable that this is nothing to be worried about. Try to keep yourself busy with doing things you enjoy while you wait for your appointment.

    Please keep us posted on how your ultrasound goes.

    --The Mods

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited December 2016

    MagicalUnicorn - it seems like a very long time between your August appointment and your December ULS. That doesn't sound particularly urgent to me. Hopefully you will get good results from the ULS. I had a call back for an ultrasound every year simply because I had dense breasts and no one could tell by just feeling or a plain mammo. Nothing was indicated for over 40 years.

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

    Not understanding what're you are worried about with waiting a week when by your own words you 'found' a 'lump' on 1-12-16. Waited til 2-12-16 (a month after 'found') to decide it was an 'emergency' to see a Dr. but nothing bad was found. Then 8-12-16 you saw Dr again - came back clear. On 12-14-16, you became worried about an US on 12-20-16. It there is no mention of any changes or having seen a Dr recently. Perhaps/Probably the Dec appt is just a follow up that was made in Aug.

    Time and what is written doesn't add up. Perhaps you left out a lot of info that would make it more understandable.

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  • Beesie
    Beesie Member Posts: 12,240
    edited December 2016

    Kicks and MinusTwo (and anyone else reading), the OP is in the UK. The rest of the world - every country but the U.S. (I believe) - uses Day-Month-Year. So 1/12/16 is the 1st of December 2016 and 2/12/16 is the 2nd of December 2016.

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

    You are correct that there are many throughout the world (including some here in the USA) who do write the date-month-year instead of month-date-year but not all everywhere. However the ones I know who write in that order, the date and year are in numerals and the month in 3 letters - ex. 14 Dec 16 - not 14-12-16. I did this when we moved back Stateside when I was 9 after living in France for 3 years.

    If she meant 8-Dec-16 when she last saw her Dr, then tbe time frame til 20-Dec-16 does not indicate an 'urgentcy' nor is it an excessive length of time.

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  • Celestine
    Celestine Member Posts: 2
    edited December 2016

    Hi, Kicks. If the OP is going through the NHS (as I am), the protocol for a breast clinic referral is for the patient to be seen within 2 weeks. I don't know about any levels of urgency etc (perhaps very blatant symptoms which would ring alarm bells would suggest a more rushed referral) but this seems to be the done thing generally in the UK.

    Hopefully there is nothing to worry about and it will be a reassuring visit but whatever the outcome, there is a huge amount of support available.

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  • Italychick
    Italychick Member Posts: 2,343
    edited December 2016

    magicalunicorn they can't tell anything really about the lump until they do an ultrasound or some form of imaging and possibly a biopsy. It can be a large number of non-cancer things. Sounds like the testing they are doing is proceeding within a reasonable timeframe, and hopefully the ultrasound will help clear some things up. In the U.S. A mammogram with or without an ultrasound is usually the first imaging done, but they may be only doing thenultrasound right now because of your age

    Hugs, I know it is scary, and fingers crossed everything comes back benign for you!


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