Its growing but nobody is taking me seriously because I'm 24

bypass your primary care doc and Call that breast specialist today. Tell her you need to be seen sooner than later. Main lump is bigger and new lumps in arm pit. Trust me she doesn’t want you to sue her for malpractice if it turns out to be something. You would be able to sue every doc prior if it does turn out to be something. Praying it’s just a cyst or fibrisdenoma it ither benign finding. Call that specialist today before noon.

I hope the Breast Center gets active to figure out what is going on in your active breasts. I will tell you at age 22 I suddenly had numerous fibrocystic disease...way too many places to even count. Very dense. No cancer for 40 years. I hope that yours are not cancer. Statistics are in your favor but you are not a number.

I'm so sorry that you are going through this stress. Yes - at your age it would be rare to have breast cancer but not impossible. And in any case - you deserve to know what's going on for your own piece of mind.

While most information states that breast tumors don't hurt, that was how I found mine. I had this area of my breast that was uncomfortable and naturally started feeling around to see what the problem was. And when I went to the OB/GYN - he started off lecturing me about dense breasts and lumpy breasts and caffeine. Then he did the exam and quickly changed his tune.

Be very firm about your need to get this diagnosed - repeat how long it's been there and the increase in size. And ask about a referral if they can't help you. Good luck. Hoping for benign results!

Unfortunately, despite efforts to educate the healthcare community that breast cancer can and does happen to young women, there are still those that subscribe to the “you’re too young theory”. I myself was diagnosed at 27, and I will tell you right up to the minute my pathology report came in not one of my doctors thought it would be cancer because of my age. The pathologist even called my surgeon to confirm my date of birth because he thought there must have been a typo. Fortunately, my surgeon took me seriously enough to do the biopsy despite felling it would be benign. He is, to this day (19 years later) the doctor I trust the most.

Please bypass your PCP and the doctor who refused the biopsy. Find a breast surgeon or another physician who WILL listen and take action. You have to be your own best advocate and throw a fit until someone listens.

Odds are in your favor that this is benign, I myself have had more than 12 benign tumors removed over the years, some pre BC and some after BC. Most of them were fibroadenomas, and my surgeon told me I had a lot of them (so,e that were never removed because they didn’t grow and become an issue). So know that odds are in your favor, but please continue to push for more definitive testing.

Trac

SparkleKitty

Can you post the ultrasound report here?