New pain - other breast - hypochondriac?
Do we all turn into hypochondriacs with every new pain? Or is it just me? :( So last Thurs my right breast (my left was treated) suddenly became really itchy in 1 spot and then I got sharp stabbing p...
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@JoeyLiz We're all entitled to be a bit hypochondriac. You're not being silly. Let's hope it's absolutely nothing. I asked a surgeon in December - "Why do I get occasional stabbing pains where my left breast used to be, and in my right breast where the papillomas were excised?" (11 months after surgery). He said, "I don't know. We don't know."
BUT: "Cancer isn't painful" is rubbish. It's been documented somewhere that pain is associated with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma and I certainly had it. I had a 12 cm tumour in my left breast, and although I only experienced tenderness when I removed my bra at the end of a day - a sort of relief from pressure - as the months went on after diagnosis, I sometimes had dreadful throbbing pains that lasted a long time, or sometimes literally as though I were being stabbed over and over in the breast. One day a few weeks before surgery I was bending over loading the dishwasher and it happened, so badly that I yelled out, "F***!!!" with each stab. Pain BEFORE surgery doesn't get talked about, and it should be acknowledged.
Of course, let's hope your pains are of the "we don't know" type - maybe damaged nerves or blood vessels readjusting.
BUT: "Cancer isn't painful" is rubbish. It's been documented somewhere that pain is associated with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma and I certainly had it. I had a 12 cm tumour in my left breast, and although I only experienced tenderness when I removed my bra at the end of a day - a sort of relief from pressure - as the months went on after diagnosis, I sometimes had dreadful throbbing pains that lasted a long time, or sometimes literally as though I were being stabbed over and over in the breast. One day a few weeks before surgery I was bending over loading the dishwasher and it happened, so badly that I yelled out, "F***!!!" with each stab. Pain BEFORE surgery doesn't get talked about, and it should be acknowledged.
Of course, let's hope your pains are of the "we don't know" type - maybe damaged nerves or blood vessels readjusting.