Panicked, Can’t Get and Appointment

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CalicoKitty2000
CalicoKitty2000 Member Posts: 9
edited May 2020 in Not Diagnosed But Worried

I have a few worrying symptoms and now I can't even get an appointment because my GYN is closed due to coronavirus.

I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. Maybe just a place to get my thoughts out. Or maybe some positive outcome possibilities . A little about me. I am 42, have 2 kids (13 and 9) and breastfed for like a million years (6 total I believe). Never smoked, drink wine only occasionally, eat healthy, very little sugar. Oh and I'm very thin with very small breasts. So I can feel everything. My breast are very lumpy and bumpy. I have had 1 fibroidemona removed from the left side, 1 biopsied confirmed and I left it and 1 other diagnosed via ultrasound. So I have 2 in my right breast that I never removed. On top of that, my breasts always hurt with stabbing or sharp pains during hormonal fluctuations. I haven't had a mammogram in years. I did have a well woman exam last October and she didn’t notice anything suspicious

A couple of weeks ago on vacation, my right breast had a weird letdown feeling and clearish yellowish fluid came out. Scared the crap out of me. So of course I couldn't stop messing with it. One night I was pushing around trying to figure out where it was coming from And I must have injured it because I made it bleed bright red blood. Now it's turned to clearish brownish. It only comes out when I squeeze it and it's way less than it was.

I also noticed when washing my arms, I have several lymph nodes about 2-3 inches above my arm pit that I can feel. They feel small, pea sized, soft and movable, but I don't really feel the same thing on the left. And they aren't sore.

So then I look up everything I can on lymph nodes and start prodding everywhere. I do feel something deep under my armpit. It feels longer than a pea but thinner, and also freely moves. Also not sore.

I should not that I am very dominant with my right arm. I also deep sea fish A LOT, where I am constantly bruising my under arm area with the rod by reeling in very large fish. Like 10-20 lb grouper and snapper. I'm not sure if I could have caused my right side nodes to be more palpable by constant force and bruising or not.

So here I am... worried to death and can't get an appointment.

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

    Calico - most docs are offering tele-conferencing or My Chart visits. If you have a regular doc, go ahead and send them a message with this information. In the mean time - stop poking & prodding & touching. Hard - but you need to quit that.

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited March 2020

    If you've poked and prodded so much, your lymph nodes might be inflamed from that irritation. Brownish fluid could be dried blood left from when your breasts bled - which could have been an internal reaction to the poking and prodding.

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  • CalicoKitty2000
    CalicoKitty2000 Member Posts: 9
    edited March 2020

    I was finally able to get through to the GYN office. My GYN is on personal leave until June. But the On Call doctor called me back and ordered a mammogram. I asked for an ultrasound too and he said ok. He also wants to check my prolactin levels, which I don't think will help since it's only out of one side? He was very indifferent and didn’t offer any positive or negative thoughts. But at least I have some diagnostic tests happening. In the past, the radiologist has usually came in the talk to me right away. So I hope that happens this tjme

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  • kksmom3
    kksmom3 Member Posts: 183
    edited March 2020

    Good, glad you're getting in......and please don't ever skip your mammograms again. Please keep in touch and let us know what you find out. Hopefully, it's nothing.

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  • CalicoKitty2000
    CalicoKitty2000 Member Posts: 9
    edited April 2020

    Update. Got the tests today. I feel like they honed in on an existing fibroidenoma. It was biopsied at the surgeons office so they didn’t have the results. The mammogram and ultrasound didn’t find anything else other that fibroglandular tissue. I still feel I need to get to the bottom of the nipple discharge. I am going to speak further to my dr and see if I can make an appointment with the surgeon. But the good news is there wasn’t anything glaringly obvious

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  • CalicoKitty2000
    CalicoKitty2000 Member Posts: 9
    edited May 2020

    Just wanted to follow through for anyone searching in the future. I was able to see a Dr and he wasn’t very worried and ordered another ultrasound for me. This time they concentrated under the nipple area. They found a lesion inside the duct and the report said it is probably an intraductal papilloma. I will meet with the surgeon and see what he thinks as far as biopsy and/or removal. But at this point, my mind has been put at ease

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  • Jons_girl
    Jons_girl Member Posts: 696
    edited May 2020

    That’s good you asked for a ultrasound always good to ask for a ultrasound too.

    My mammo did not see my cancer at all. Completely missed it. I felt my small tumor. Ultrasound showed everything even the blood source to the small tumor.

    I know there are people on this forum who’s cancer was missed by ultrasound too. MRI caught some cancers where they were missed on ultrasound.

    So it’s always good to advocate for ourselves. If something doesn’t feel right and your not getting answers push for more diagnostics. Women with high density in their breast tissue like me, mammograms aren’t helpful for. IMH

    Sounds like you have a great doctor!

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