When I first realized something was wrong with one of my breast, I didn't know what exactly it was. I just woke up with a sore breast and nothing else. I couldn't pinpoint the pain at first, and even went onto work that day.
I just knew I was sore in the right breast area toward the nipple. It was painful and there was no bruises or anything to show me something was wrong.
After work I kept feeling around and finally was able to find a small lump and had my hubby feel of it. He agreed that the lump wasn't there before and that I needed to get to the doctor to see what it was.
At that current time we were seeing a Nurse Practitioner as our Primary Care Doctor and she was the best as we thought for many years. So I figured when I go in for routine blood work in a couple of days, I will ask for a diagnosis mammogram.
I went in for my blood work and ask as I was leaving about getting a script for a mammogram instead of waiting until my time in June. The Nurse Practitioner told me to step into a exam room and let her see what was going on. She felt of the lump and told me "it was a vein and not to worry about it".
Her words still ring loud and clear in my mind. She knew my family history, and she knew it was something that wasn't suppose to be there but she ignored it and put my life at risk. Several weeks later I called her back and told her that I was concerned and wanted to get that mammogram and I wasn't taking "no" as an answer. I would change physicians if she refused to give me the script I needed. She laughed but she sent it to the facility I had chosen.
Please always go with your gut feeling and never take "no" as an answer when it comes to you health or your body.
You will hear that breast cancer isn't painful. I disagree with this cause I did have pain. If not for the pain, I might not have caught it and would have never known it was there. Many other Pink Sisters in my support groups say they had some sort of painful breast area and thats how they discovered there Cancer also.
Yes, I did yearly mammograms and was very faithful at getting them year after year. Nothing was never found on the mammograms so a screening mammgram could have over looked the mass. It was Stage 1 and was a mass that would be Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. Which is a common breast cancer that will spread if left untreated. Thankfully the pain is why I caught it early.
Had I not had the pain I would have never knew anything was there. When the lump was first discovered it was small, almost unnoticable and could have been over looked by me doing a self exam, or a screening mammogram. I do believe it was meant for me to find it, and to take care of it.
Comments are always welcome!
I just knew I was sore in the right breast area toward the nipple. It was painful and there was no bruises or anything to show me something was wrong.
After work I kept feeling around and finally was able to find a small lump and had my hubby feel of it. He agreed that the lump wasn't there before and that I needed to get to the doctor to see what it was.
At that current time we were seeing a Nurse Practitioner as our Primary Care Doctor and she was the best as we thought for many years. So I figured when I go in for routine blood work in a couple of days, I will ask for a diagnosis mammogram.
I went in for my blood work and ask as I was leaving about getting a script for a mammogram instead of waiting until my time in June. The Nurse Practitioner told me to step into a exam room and let her see what was going on. She felt of the lump and told me "it was a vein and not to worry about it".
Her words still ring loud and clear in my mind. She knew my family history, and she knew it was something that wasn't suppose to be there but she ignored it and put my life at risk. Several weeks later I called her back and told her that I was concerned and wanted to get that mammogram and I wasn't taking "no" as an answer. I would change physicians if she refused to give me the script I needed. She laughed but she sent it to the facility I had chosen.
Please always go with your gut feeling and never take "no" as an answer when it comes to you health or your body.
You will hear that breast cancer isn't painful. I disagree with this cause I did have pain. If not for the pain, I might not have caught it and would have never known it was there. Many other Pink Sisters in my support groups say they had some sort of painful breast area and thats how they discovered there Cancer also.
Had I not had the pain I would have never knew anything was there. When the lump was first discovered it was small, almost unnoticable and could have been over looked by me doing a self exam, or a screening mammogram. I do believe it was meant for me to find it, and to take care of it.
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