Surgery anyways?

Jotting
Jotting Member Posts: 1

Starting from the beginning here. Three years ago I began having this chest pain and breathlessness that would sometimes radiate up my left side of my neck and down my left arm. I mentioned it at my annual with my GP and off to a cardiologist I went. EKG and cardiologist indicated everything is good. Labs all came back normal. My GP runs out of things to check and diagnoses me with panic attacks (despite my insistence that this seems to be far more random than that) and sends me to psychiatry who prescribes zoloft and ritalin which did nothing but make me more irratable. A year later I notice a lump in my left breast. Not the hard small beady kind that tends to be associated with cancer but more like grape size and rubbery. I mention it to my ob/gyn at my annual and she measures it and notes it in the chartand that's it. So we moved and now I have new doctors and I mention the lump at my annual and say that it's been there for 2 years at least and the doctor who is a GP but does women's health too is concerned. She sends me off to radiology. Mammogram on the right side was uncomfortable but not painful, but the second they got me positioned and started to image the left side with the lump sure enough that chest pain hits and it runs up my neck and sending burning tingling down my left arm into my elbow and my left thumb begins shaking. So of course it's positive for two masses and a biopsy is scheduled. During the core needle biopsy, the second tumor, even though I am really numbed up in my breast, as seen as it is penetrated for the biopsy sets off that feeling in my neck and arm again and no literally I have no pain thanks to the lidocane but I am shaking all over. So the results come back as benign fibroadenomas. I really think though that one of the tumors has managed to attach to a nerve or something. I'd like to get it removed if it resolves the symptoms. The radiologist cautioned me that with fibrous breast tissue like mine that removal might not resolve my pain. My GP has made a referral to a breast surgeon so I should have a consult with her soon but has anyone else experienced anything like this? For sure if it was the one tumor I felt which wasn't painful to feel or biopsy I'd probably leave it alone but that second one is just a hater and I think it needs to come out. I'd hate to think I am going to be stuck having the random "panic attacks" indefinitely.

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

    Dear Jotting,

    Welcome to the BCO community. We are sorry that you are having these issues but we are glad that you reached out here to our members. We notice that you have not yet received a response. It does seem as though a consultation with a breast surgeon might help to answer some of your questions about the impact of surgery on prolonged nerve pain if such is the culprit. Please keep us posted on what you learn as it might help others. The Mods

  • BluegrassCinderella
    BluegrassCinderella Member Posts: 4
    edited April 2017

    Hi Jotting. I'm not sure where you are in your process but was wondering if you have an update. I had a similar situation and am opting for a radical approach (based on more than just this stand alone issue). I sincerely hope you are better but let us know and perhaps I can weigh in a little bit more.

  • ravzari
    ravzari Member Posts: 277
    edited April 2017

    In all honestly, having dealt with all of that since my breasts grew in, the official reason I had a BMX was strong family history.

    My private reason was, "They hurt ALL THE TIME and are full of cysts and fibroadenomas and all anyone ever tells me to do is 'live with it', 'that's normal' (Spoiler Alert: It's NOT normal!) or 'take some Advil', which does nothing."

    I don't regret it for a second, and am glad they're gone and am 1000% happy being flat for numerous reasons; they were big before(34DD), saggy, painful, lumpy, sweaty underneath, and I just hated them all my life for those reasons, especially the pain reason.

    Once they were gone, surprise, surprise, the pain stopped. That means, since June 2016, I've been free of searing, stabbing pain that I'd lived with day and night since I was 9 years old.

    If my insurance company hadn't covered the BMX for family history, I'd have found a way to pay out of pocket for a BMX.

  • LovedByGod77
    LovedByGod77 Member Posts: 1
    edited July 2017

    Hello Ladies! In 2009 they found a lump in my right breast. It was biopsied and came back benign. I met with a breast surgeon and he agreed to remove the lump. I was doing great until 3 years ago. I got shingles on my right side and the pain radiated in my right breast. I started having discharge in both breasts now. Thr color os more yellow instead of white and off and on I have breast pain. I just had a mamogram and ultrasound months ago, but the discharge has went from white to yellow and I keep having pain in my right breast. I don't know what to do! Do you ladies have any suggestions? I would truly appreciate.

    God Bless

  • mommakat
    mommakat Member Posts: 147
    edited July 2017

    hi loved by. I think you'll get better responses if you post this in the "not diagnosed but worried" forum. This thread is a little old.

    Good luck

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