All the vague symptoms of fibrocystic breasts.

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edited March 2019 in Benign Breast Conditions
All the vague symptoms of fibrocystic breasts.
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  • Andie1209
    Andie1209 Member Posts: 17
    edited March 2019

    I’m glad someone else has only one fibrocystic breast and it’s my right one too! I’ve had shooting pains behind me right nipple (although that was 3 years ago) and subsided when I cut out my daily cup of coffee. I also have fullness in my right armpit and if I poke around my breast tissue that goes up into my right armpit then my armpit starts hurting (mild). My surgeon has confirmed I have a decent amount of breast tissue that goes up into my right armpit (not the case on my left side). I’ve started to exercise, cut out caffeine as much as possible, and avoid products with soy. I don’t have a family history of bc but it’s still creates anxiety between 6 month follow ups! I go in 8 weeks...can’t get here soon enoug

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  • LoveFromPhilly
    LoveFromPhilly Member Posts: 1,308
    edited March 2019

    hello hello not to freak anyone out here but I too had same diagnosis of right side breast fibroadenoma back in 2011 - verified by ultrasound and mammogram.

    When I went back for Follow-up in 2015, they decided they wanted to do a core needle biopsy. I got scared. I canceled my appointment last minute. I kept telling myself it was normal fibrocystic breast changes. Everything that I read and researched said all of the symptoms were totally normal with fibroadenomas. My breast would hurt with PMS, was relieved once period would start. But in February 2017 my breast started changing - it got swollen and hot with my period. Pretty quickly after that period my lymph node swelled in my armpit and I finally took myself back to the doctors as I knew for certain there was no denying my situation.

    I think, retrospectively, I am not sure if the cyst was always there and then it so happened that I also got BC on top of it? We have no idea! So many unknowns with cancer. What I can tell you is that I became unbelievably fatigued, anxious, lost my sex drive and my periods were “harder” than they’d ever been about 3 years prior to my diagnosis.

    I always was completely healthy and active. Some red wine here and there.

    I guess my point is, if you really want to be sure, you could have cyst biopsied so you can stop living with so much worry?

    I am honestly not sure which I would have preferred: to be diagnosed possibly stage 2 or 3 and have surgery and aggressive now-adjuvant chemo and then who knows what or be where I am now which is diagnosed stage 4 de novo and stable on systemic treatments. I feel as if I most likely would have ended up stage 4 anyway so in some bizarre way I saved myself from going through all those heavy treatments? It’s a total mindf@ck!

    It’s all very scary and anxiety-producing. You have to decide what is best for you. Do you get it thoroughly checked out now or wait for signs to worsen living with this anxiety over your head constantly?

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  • Andie1209
    Andie1209 Member Posts: 17
    edited March 2019

    I had a core needle biopsy too on my mass and it was determined to be fibrosis...had path slides read at 2 different hospitals and they both agreed. I also had a small fluid filled cyst in the same breast which they didn’t do anything with and I’m hoping it’s gone when I go back in for my 6 month diagnostic mammo and u/s. I am so sorry about your diagnosis and hope you’re doing ok with your treatments

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  • LoveFromPhilly
    LoveFromPhilly Member Posts: 1,308
    edited March 2019

    thanks friends! Fortunately I am doing really really well with the treatments. even with all the anxiety and worry, it was still a major shock to the system.

    I am glad you are both taking such good care of yourselves and really, we can’t be too overly cautious. I think BC is a reality all women face. Some face it head on and some ignore it.

    Just please remember to have lots of fun and enjoy every moment of this beautiful precious life!!!

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  • Lemonslemons16
    Lemonslemons16 Member Posts: 25
    edited March 2019

    hello,


    I’ve read through your posts and dx and wondered if you could tell me (and sorry if I missed it)...

    Those of you with the fibrocystic breast diagnosis (on one side), were all cysts and lumps palpable? Did your pain feel worse when the area was touched, during movement or all the time?

    I’m having a mammogram and us next week as well as meeting with a breast specialist. I’ve been neglecting breast pain for too long and today my obgyn declared that the area I’m specifically finding painful is “dense tissue” and ordered imaging. To me, it doesn’t feel all that different from the same spot on my other breast except it hurts a lot when pushed hard. I’ve also had nipple pain but she didn’t see any concerns with my nipple.

    Sometimes it doesn’t feel like pain at all but more of a fullness or tightness and when I reach with my right arm, I feel it. The pain has never been so that I would take ibuprofen or anything. I’m just hoping for something benign and wondering what other benign conditions present with pain in the absence of any mass (that I’ve found or my obgyn found).

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  • Erinashley19
    Erinashley19 Member Posts: 104
    edited March 2019

    lemonslemons16

    I have a complexcyst that was very very painful at first (that’s the only reason i discovered it) but could not be felt. The pain is less now but I still can’t feel a thing. I have dense breasts that are more lunpy on one side so maybe I just can’t tell between the cyst and other breast tissue (my on couldn’t either). Either way I certainly don’t have a defined lump.

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