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14 February, 2009 at 14:43 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 16

Hi,

I have a lump on my breast which has been there for over a year and has now got bigger. I attended my local breast clinic last last year and the doc had a wee feel and told me that i just had lumpy breasts and that it was hormonal and that i had nothing to worry about. I check my breasts on a regular basis as there is a history of breast cancer in my family and i have never had any other lumps on either breasts except this one which has got bigger. H2b has even commented on how much bigger it has got.

What should i do? If i go to my doc i wil get refered back to the same doc at the breast clinic and he will just hunt me and think im wasting his time as he has given me a diagnosis all be it without biopsy, scan, xray or anything else.

Do i go back and see him or leave it as maybe im worrying over nothing.?

Thanks

Beth xx

16 replies

Latest activity by Purple Pixie, 16 February, 2009 at 08:17
  • MBK
    Beginner March 2003
    MBK ·
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    My Friend was diagnosed just beofre Christmas.

    Please go back - you arent wasting anyones time. If you arent happy demand to be referred to another specialist.

    I am sure it is fine but you really ought to get it checked.

    Good Luck

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  • WelshTotty
    Beginner December 2014
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    If its got bigger then Id deffo go back to your GP and get it checked out again x

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  • Cosmopolitan
    Beginner August 2010
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    Definitely go back. So what if the consultant thinks you're wasting his time, its your life not his and it'll be worth it even if it just means you are reassured.

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  • Zooropa
    Super October 2007
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    Go back and ask your dr for a referral to a different consultant.

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  • M
    Beginner September 2007
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    As the others have said, please go back Beth and insist on them, doing real tests ?

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  • Allison Wonderland
    Beginner December 2006
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    Absolutely go back, ask to be referred to another doctor if you're concerned.

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  • twiggy
    Beginner November 2005
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    GO BACK! you are not wasting anyones time and no one should make you feel like you are!

    I went to the doctor last year with a lump as it got bigger and was really painful. He said he believed it to be just a cyst but he referred me to the local breastclinic at the hospital. They scanned it and agreed i just had lumpy breasts. They said it was just a cyst that had become infected and was filled with liquid s they drained it with a syringe ( v painful) but it was such a relief. They showed me on the scan all the little lumps which I didnt even know were there, but apparantly some women are just prone to it.

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  • Orly Bird
    Beginner April 2007
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    Well, you're obviously not happy with what you've already been told or you wouldn't be posting here. If it's worth asking us, then it's worth going back to see the doctor and get a second opinion. Like somebody else said - it's your life, not his. ?

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  • Gigi
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    Please don't be fobbed off, go back and ask to be referred. If your GP refuses on whatever grounds, be prepared to exagerate your symptoms (This is personally what I what do and I found out the hard way that GPs aren't Gods and they DON'T know everything)

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  • Nun
    Beginner September 2006
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    Definitely go back to your GP. A hospital appointment will be booked within 2 weeks which is the recommended guidelines. Hoping that it's nothing to worry about.

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  • Fallen Angel
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    Get the appointment made first thing monday morning. Sooner you do it the better.

    Hope it is nothing to worry about.

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    My mum has particularly lumpy nodular breasts and every time she has a mammogram she gets called back. Despite it being on her records that she's like this, they always do a further scan, so I would go back and ask to see someone else.

    On a similar vein, a few years back sex suddenly became painful and I was bleeding afterwards. I saw one gynae who basically said it was because my sex life was boring. I was so upset I just left it for ages. When I eventually went back, it turned out that I had a cyst. Fortunately not serious, just a nuisance, but it could have been much worse.

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  • hope
    Beginner June 2007
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    Definately go back - I am not a medic in any way but maybe the first time the doctor saw you the lump was similar to that of something that he wouldn't be worried about that has now got bigger. That person may not even still work there now

    Good luck xx

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  • Purple Pixie
    Beginner July 2012
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    I'm glad you're going to get seen. Make sure that you get that referral sooner rather than later.

    Hope everything is ok x

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