So I went to the doc today because I have had this weird intermittent pain in my right breast for about a month now. I can't feel anything lumpy or bumpy, but whenever I bump my boob just right it feels kind of like hitting your funny bone.
Google said it wasn't cancer and I should just take an aspirin and get over it, but it was going on long enough and was uncomfortable enough that I finally sought a professional opinion.
Doc said pretty much the same thing as Google--it's probably normal fibrocystic changes. I can take vitamin E if I want to help with the pain. Not much else to do.
Well, except a baseline mammogram "just in case" and because I've never had one. So now my girls are getting squished on Friday. Not looking forward to that one.
And once again I have dragged myself to the doctor to hear the equivalent of "suck it up, buttercup." I go to the doctor maybe twice a year and I swear there is never anything that can be done for whatever happens to ail me. But I guess that's better than hearing that I'm dying of some dreadful disease.
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I had a baseline mammo in September (went off the pill, found a suspicious lumpiness that didn't go away, had recurring pain, etc.). Much like you, Google told me it was just fibrocystic changes (my mom has had two cysts biopsied, and my grandmother had at least one biopsy), but, you know, you get the mammo when your doctor tells you to.
I'll be honest -- I was FREAKED OUT going in. But once I was there and the radiologist was telling me everything was fine...well, I won't say it made the three weeks I had to wait for the appointment worth it, but I certainly don't remember them being the anxiety-filled nightmare I think they actually were.
Anyway, you'll be glad you got the baseline mammo, especially when the doctor tells you that you don't need another till you're 40.
I always figure the fact that I'm having the overpriced/unpleasant test is actually the guarantee there won't be anything wrong. Because if I didn't have the test, then I'd be dying of something ridiculous. That's just how my luck goes.
Mammograms - I finally had one (although I'm told that if you're under 40, they can be next to useless) not long after P was born, because of some pain tenderness that everyone was convinced was some inflammation and no big deal. But of course, we did the test anyway. It was in the state of the art center at the teaching hospital and even though it was no big deal, the imaging was amazing! I walked out of there thinking - no lie - "when I get cancer, THIS is where I want to go."
I blame baby brain for that one. In any case, GOOD LUCK.
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