I don't know if it's ok to post on here or not, since I don't have an official dx yet. Please excuse if not, I am just very worried. I had a core needle biopsy on two spots on the 11th and am sweating the results.
I started having a tightening feeling in my left breast about 3 weeks ago, it felt like something was in there. I could not feel anything with my fingers but it felt like a stone in my breast when I walked, sat, slumped, etc. This same feeling happened like 10 years ago and I gave up caffeine and never had it again. I was told at that time I had fibrocystic breasts, but once I quit the caffeine I was told they were just dense. I have been drinking diet coke a lot lately so put it down to that.
Two weeks ago, I started having deep itching in that same breast. I always get surface itching before my P, but not inside itching you can't scratch. I should say I am on a pill now that keeps me from having my P so I thought maybe that was why, but it still concerned me. That was on a Wed night. I called my doctor on Monday and had a diagnostic mammo & US set up on Wednesday. I also saw my ob/gyn that day who felt nothing more than fibrocystic changes but does not like itching as a symptom so he sent me to a breast surgeon to be careful.
The mammo came back clear, no significant changes from my baseline 5 years ago (I am 39). All it saw was extremely dense breasts and a benign lymph node in the axillary tail, assessment: BENIGN.
The u/s worries me:
Findings: There is a 9.3 mmm ovoid solid nodule at the 12:00 psoition in the left breast which is somewhat ill-defined and demonstrates slight posterior shadowning whitout hypervascularity. Additionally, there is an ovoid 9.3 mm mildly lobulated solid nodule at the 11:00 psotion which also demonstrates faint posterior shadowing without hypervascularity. No other abnormality is seen.
Impression: Solid nodules at the 11 and 12 position are moderately suspicous for malignancy. Biopsy of both lesions utilizing sonographic guidance is recommended.
I talked to my ob/gyn and he said to try not to worry about this all weekend, they see these reports all the time and not having hypervascularity is a good thing.
But all I can see is 'moderate' and 'malignancy.'
I don't know about my dad's side because he was basically a hit and run procreator, but the only cancer of any kind on my mom's is a great-grandfather who was an alcoholic for many years died from stomach cancer in his 70s and grandfather who was outside all the time, bald with no hat, died from melanoma in his 70s.
I am having such an anxiety attack over those words, and I have anxiety issues anyway. What do you all think? If this is inappropriate, I apologize. I saw on another thread that this was a good place to ask as you are familiar with the vocabulary on these things.
Thank you for reading this far.