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Well lets start a few years ago when I was 15yrs old back in my high school PE class, our teacher is telling us about checking ourselves for breast lumps, we all went home that night to check and I found my first lump, one of many to follow. From then on my life was like 'Groundhog Day' many lumps and many Dr's ALL saying not to worry as I was too young to get breast cancer until about 5 years ago when even my Dr at the time thought that one of my lumps looked suspicious but after many tests and endless nights of no sleep the results came back showing - NO cancer, yay!
September last year was a very scary time for me as my marriage fell apart and came to a violent end, the stress that followed caused me to lose a lot of wieght very rapidly I dropped around 40 kilos in 5 months which at the time I thought great dont need to diet anymore. My anxiety attakcs became a weekly occurance which caused me to take time off work so the stress became worse with no income to helppay the bills, but this allowed me the time to see my new Dr about getting more tests on the many lumps in both my breasts. I had an ultrasound, a momogram and a fine needle biopsy. The fine needle biopsy came back showing signs of cancer so she sent me to a breast specialist who ordered 2 core biopsies, the following week on Thursday 19 May the results came back which confirmed that I had breast cancer - OMG what a bombshell I couldn't even talk all I could do was cry and cry and cry, lucky I had Karl with me and we had already discussed all the questions that we wanted answers for and he asked these questions, 'What was the Dr going to do about it and When?' The Dr had already decided the best way to attack this was to remove both my breasts because the size of the lump was 3.5cm by 2cm and where it was sitting right above my right nipple. The 'When' was 4 days from then WOW. He wanted to move fast, so the following Monday I had to go to a clinic to have some radioactive injections in my right breast which would help the surgoen find my 1st lumph node, then off to the hospital for my surgery.

louiseg · Answer

Wow you've been throught the mill, haven't you?&nbsp; I always had lumps and bumps from a young age too and was always asking the doctors to check one thing or another but it is still such a shock when they tell you that you have breast cancer!
Have you had your surgery now?&nbsp; How are you going?&nbsp; Have they given you an idea of your treatment plan yet?
Take care and stay in touch
Louise

sillysam83 · Answer

I have remembered having bumps since a young age too... Doctors said the same to me, dont worry your too young... There are so many young people on here as young as 24, you are never too young, &amp; I dont think its right they say that to us... Hope u r travelling well &amp; surgery goes well &amp; the double mastecomy is all u have to deal with... Good luck! &amp; keep in touch....&nbsp;

sillysam83 · Answer

I have remembered having bumps since a young age too... Doctors said the same to me, dont worry your too young... There are so many young people on here as young as 24, you are never too young, &amp; I dont think its right they say that to us... Hope u r travelling well &amp; surgery goes well &amp; the double mastecomy is all u have to deal with... Good luck! &amp; keep in touch....&nbsp;

kaz37 · Answer

Just a small blog this morning as I have another big day today I have an appointment at the hospital at 8.30am to get the results of my ultrasound I had last week as they found a cyst on oe of my overies when they did my CT scan and I have an appointment with my oncologist to find out when my chemo starts. I have mixd feelings with this one as the cancer itself didnt make me sick, I just lost a lot of weight but I know this treatment will make me very sick,but at the same time I cant wait to kick this disease in the butt. I will put up another post tonight if I'm up to it and let you know how things go and when I start my treatment. Talk again soon. Take care all you wonderful ladies who who are bashing at the same brick wall as I am we can do this one brick at a time we are stronger than this ugly disease love to all XXXXX

louiseg · Answer

Kaz, the chemo won't necessarily make you really sick....I felt like I had morning sickness or a hangover but I was never actually sick!&nbsp; Yes, you lose your hair and feel tired but chemo is do-able!
You have been through a lot so just wait to see what your oncologist recommends.
Incidentally I had a big bleed after my first mastectomy in 2003 as well.&nbsp; I had an allergic reaction to the blue dye that they use for tracking the lymphatic drainage whilst I was having my mastectomy.&nbsp; I ended up in ICU and then when I came to, I had a major bleed into the drains on that side and they ended up rushing me back in to stop the bleeding.&nbsp; I also had a blood transfusion.&nbsp; With my second mastectomy last year, I also had another bleed but this time it was only 400mls.&nbsp; It started on a Friday night and by the time I saw my doctor on the Monday I was in a lot of pain and felt quite sick.&nbsp; They put me into hospital the next morning to drain it but luckily this time I didn't need a transfusion.&nbsp; Maybe having a bleed is more common than we think!!
Take care,
Louise x

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