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    Re: More breast issues and need some logical thinking

    I messaged one of the nurses on my private health insurance and she said I need to see my gp this week. I’m freaking out

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    Re: More breast issues and need some logical thinking

    I’m stuck at work all by myself until 8am. I just went to go home. I wanted her to tell me I was ok instead she stressed several times I need to see my gp this week.

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    Re: More breast issues and need some logical thinking

    If you go to nurses, and say you are worried and stress your symptoms with concern, they are going to tell you to see your GP. Nobody, in all honesty, over the phone is going to say 'oh you're fine, its nothing' how would they know without seeing you and physical examination? I want to remind you of this from a few pages ago though -

    So this flare up is still continuing. The armpit pain has now gone and pain in the breast is rarely there. However it’s all moved lower down the bottom of my ribs by the bottom of the sternum and ribs under breast. If I press on that up to the sternum it’s like someone has punched me. Almost like a pulled muscle. I’ve pushed on the area just below and that doesn’t hurt. Just over the ribs at the bottom. It feels like constant pressure and I’m very aware. Trying to disttact myself but I keep panicking as the symptoms have moved and chsnged again!
    If its breast cancer which is in your thoughts - the pain wouldn't move about, wax and wane and entirely change location.

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    Re: More breast issues and need some logical thinking

    Quote Originally Posted by Carys View Post
    If you go to nurses, and say you are worried and stress your symptoms with concern, they are going to tell you to see your GP. Nobody, in all honesty, over the phone is going to say 'oh you're fine, its nothing' how would they know without seeing you and physical examination? I want to remind you of this from a few pages ago though -



    If its breast cancer which is in your thoughts - the pain wouldn't move about, wax and wane and entirely change location.

    Thanks carys. I’ve calmed myself down. Anxiety has really taken a hold of me tonight. To be honest I’m not really worried about breast cancer anymore where this is concerned. I know if things come and go they aren’t cancer and the breast pain is the least of the issues now anyway. It’s the rib discomfort/bruised feeling which is causing me concern.

    Whats tipped me over the edge is her saying i need to be seen this week by gp for examination and to be referred for scans and blood tests etc. Then she went on to talk about private gp appointments and gp appointments online. She even suggested I try to be seen by the breast specialist again this week but I don’t feel this is a breast issue anymore. It’s chest wall and ribs!

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    I’ve just got back from my Drs. Sternum is sore but not like the ribs below the breast on sternum side of the rib cage. Rib number 5,6 and 7. He doesn’t feel it’s costochondritis anymore. He doesn’t know what it is but said he wants me to go back to the breast specialist again to get them to scan the ribs as doesn’t feel it’s the breast either. No lumps, bumps or skin changes on the breast or armpit.


    He said if they can’t find anything then he will refer me to a rheumatologist and mentioned fibromyalgia. He asked if I had night sweats or weight loss which I don’t.


    He said he couldn’t promise it was nothing more serious as it does happen to some people in their thirties. He just didn’t seem to know what was causing the rib pain. It’s not as uncomfortable as it was yesterday. Maybe I’ve made it worse but checking it a lot? Pain has gotten worse since visit as anxiety increased.


    We spoke at length about my health anxiety and he feels it’s gotten so bad I need to see a psychologist and has done me a referral.


    I don’t know what to think.


    Should I be scared? Because I am. He is a really good dr and spent well over the allocated ten minutes with me.

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    Re: More breast issues and need some logical thinking

    It’s not as uncomfortable as it was yesterday. Maybe I’ve made it worse but checking it a lot?
    Wellllll is a definite possibility isn't it.

    Should I be scared?
    No, I don't think you should.....I mean....its not yet known what is causing it, but it doesn't sound too concerning does it if the pain waxes and wanes. Also, I'm not sure why he's dropped the costochondritis as that seems like the sort of place people get it. Mind, he's the doctor - and I certainly am not. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carys View Post
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    Wellllll is a definite possibility isn't it.



    No, I don't think you should.....I mean....its not yet known what is causing it, but it doesn't sound too concerning does it if the pain waxes and wanes. Also, I'm not sure why he's dropped the costochondritis as that seems like the sort of place people get it. Mind, he's the doctor - and I certainly am not. lol
    I know, I know, I sound like a broken record lol. I’ve just really struggled again this past week (cried a lot today) and I was hoping he would say it’s nothing. I guess if it was my leg he probably would have but given the location and him being a good dr he wasn’t going to leave anything to chance. He’s the best gp at the surgery and everyone wants to see him!

    Anyway ive felt this rib pain feels very similar to when I hurt myself exercising three years ago in the same location (when my anxiety started after the injury, I’ve come full circle?) when I hurt myself it felt like something ripped. It was so painful then I had about three weeks of this type of pain. Tender and bruised feeling! So tonight I took hold of the skin and muscle that is in the area of the pain and just gently pulled it and the pain was exactly the same. So I’m thinking this may be muscular after all? Also if I stretch out as far as I can and touch the area it doesn’t hurt at all. I’m wondering if I’ve caused this by being so panicked with anxiety? I’ve maybe been tensing there and not realised? Perhaps I’m clutching at straws out of fear?

    After he examined me he said he wanted to check my heart. He held the stethoscope there for about three seconds. My heart was pounding. As soon as I was dressed he asked how my anxiety was and how I was coping, we actually spoke for longer about my anxiety than the rib pain. He asked what caused it and I told him about my daughter dying and being fobbed off by the Drs many times. He said he felt I need a psychiatrist now and normal counselling won’t work. I need specialist help and he’s completely right. I’ve tried so hard to fight this, to be normal like everyone else I know but I’m traumatised from what’s happened and now I live in fear every day of dying. I can’t carry on like this. It’s making me physically ill!

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    Anyway ive felt this rib pain feels very similar to when I hurt myself exercising three years ago in the same location (when my anxiety started after the injury, I’ve come full circle?) when I hurt myself it felt like something ripped. It was so painful then I had about three weeks of this type of pain. Tender and bruised feeling! So tonight I took hold of the skin and muscle that is in the area of the pain and just gently pulled it and the pain was exactly the same. So I’m thinking this may be muscular after all? Also if I stretch out as far as I can and touch the area it doesn’t hurt at all.
    It sure sounds like a full circle sadly Unicorn. A ligament or muscle is prone to injury again, in many cases, as it can become weaker and scarred after the first injury. Pains here and there are part and parcel of being human, and gawd knows I have enough things that pull here and there and cause pain this week or that week. each of us at a certain age develops our own niggly bits.

    The reason that your GP spent much longer talking about the mental health problems are because I'm sure it is recognised that this is your major problem, and by the sound of it you are recognising that too. HA is a fear of dying in essence, so in root I don't think you are different from most other HA people - but it would be great to get to the bottom of it wouldn't it, and once and for all start living your life rather than worrying about every ache, pain and nobbly bit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carys View Post
    It sure sounds like a full circle sadly Unicorn. A ligament or muscle is prone to injury again, in many cases, as it can become weaker and scarred after the first injury. Pains here and there are part and parcel of being human, and gawd knows I have enough things that pull here and there and cause pain this week or that week. each of us at a certain age develops our own niggly bits.

    The reason that your GP spent much longer talking about the mental health problems are because I'm sure it is recognised that this is your major problem, and by the sound of it you are recognising that too. HA is a fear of dying in essence, so in root I don't think you are different from most other HA people - but it would be great to get to the bottom of it wouldn't it, and once and for all start living your life rather than worrying about every ache, pain and nobbly bit.

    Very good point about being prone again to injury,

    i agree I’m no different to anyone else with health anxiety, I meant more people I’m friends with. They don’t instantly think every little thing is cancer. Sure it pops in to their heads as we all worry about it. It’s everywhere you look these days. I’ve just taken it to a whole other level now. I may not be googling every day but other than that I haven’t moved on, I’ve tried to kid myself I have because I don’t google constantly but that was only part of the problem. My thought processes on equating everything to dying is what’s destroying my life! I never used to be like this, in fact I was very dismissive about aches and pains before. “Oh it’s nothing it will be fine”. I’m completely the other end now,

    i remember back to when when I first started driving and my left hip joint became very sore. It carried on for weeks. Dr put me on ibuprofen and said I would need a cortisone shot if it carried on. Not once did I think I had cancer. It never even crossed my mind. I’m not saying I should be dismissive but I need to get back to that kind of mindset. If I don’t I’m going to be a nervous wreck soon. So far I can keep it together and function but for how long if I let this continue?

    One thing i am I am pleased about is that despite being incredibly anxious and very tearful I sat and played some games with my girls tonight before bed. Normally I would just take myself off and only appear at bed time when I’m feeling like this! I’m not missing out on anymore nice bits because of this crap! I’ve had enough!

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    Re: More breast issues and need some logical thinking

    For my two-penneth .....i agree with everything Carys has said. She gave me the same talking to early 2018 when I was going through the same circle as you!
    Sounds like you have a very good GP and they're like gold dust. He's recognised the real problem and is working on it with you. It makes me sad when I hear of young people like yourself going through this HA crap. Not sure I could have coped with a life time of it so focus on getting that sorted. By magic, the aches and pains will disappear if you do (most of anyway!)...

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