Ointment or No Ointment?

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Virgo59
Virgo59 Member Posts: 8
edited February 2020 in Not Diagnosed But Worried

Two months ago my mammogram was negative. Since then I found a lump on one breast with a purpleish blotch that looks like a rash on the tip of my areola. The rash has red lines extending from it. My breast also itches llke crazy sometimes more than others.The other breast is fine. Today I found out the lump is benign thank God, but the doctor blew off the rash and said it looked like a "bruise" and that I probably bumped by breast on something "and just forgot". I was so insulted that I immediately went to my attending physician for a SECOP. She confirmed it's a rash and gave me an ointment to use for a few weeks to see if it clears up. I'm worried I may have inflammatory breast cancer. I don't know if I should use the ointment for a month and see what happens or request a test for IBC as soon as possible? Has anyone else received a diagnosis of any kind with similar symptoms? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited February 2020

    Since two docs have said it's not cancer, I'd use the ointment. If your still not sure, make an appointment with a derm doc - a skin expert.

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  • gb2115
    gb2115 Member Posts: 1,894
    edited February 2020

    I echo the above comment to get into a derm. Use the ointment, and try to find a derm. Tell them you have a red streaky rash, it could speed things along.

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  • Virgo59
    Virgo59 Member Posts: 8
    edited February 2020

    Thanks, I will.

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  • Jlynn222
    Jlynn222 Member Posts: 8
    edited February 2020

    I can relate this. A year and a half ago I noticed a cluster of freckles the size of a dime on the left side of my breast. over a year and a half it had spread across the middle of my breast and I have what appears a cluster of small bruises with them. I feel like when I mention IBC to the doctors they are avoiding the topic. Now I have to go in tomorrow because they want a 2nd look at my mammogram because they found uneven breast tissue. I have to get mammagram and an ultrasound. IBC is only determined by a biopsy and doesnt always show up on a mammogram or ultrasound

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