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Found a Lump in Armpit - Petrified
loddellbosh
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I've just found a lump just above my armpit. It is small, about the size of a pea and fairly hard. It feels sort of attached but moveable. It felt like it was quite deep inside and now if I feel for it I can't find it.
I think it's just above where the hair starts. It's not painful at all.
My mum was diagnosed with breast cancer exactly a year ago on the 10th and I'm really scared this could be the same. I suffer with severe anxiety and this is really worrying me - I'm having a mild panic attack. Should I be worried? Should I go to the doctor or should I wait to see if I can find it again, or if it disappears or gets bigger?
I'm 22.
I think it's just above where the hair starts. It's not painful at all.
My mum was diagnosed with breast cancer exactly a year ago on the 10th and I'm really scared this could be the same. I suffer with severe anxiety and this is really worrying me - I'm having a mild panic attack. Should I be worried? Should I go to the doctor or should I wait to see if I can find it again, or if it disappears or gets bigger?
I'm 22.
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You just need to call up on Monday morning and request an urgent appointment for later that day.
Failing that, if you get incredibly worried over the weekend, you could ring the out of hours GP
I get those kinda things too... never had it turn out to be something worse.
Id go down to yr GP, just for reassurance. You may find it naturally goes away anyway.
Its prob a swollen lymph node under your armpit. There are multiple causes. It can be linked to cancer, but its much more likely this is merely a mild infection.
Check it out at yr GP's.
I've just told my mum about it and she had a feel and thinks it's nothing to worry about which has calmed me down a bit. I'll mention it to my GP when I manage to get an appointment.
I think you should make it with some reasonable urgency
Never put these things off when it comes to lumps. Your mum isn't a doctor
I am amazed that you even need to ask that question. I made the exact same point on an earlier thread today. Call your GP, make an appointment and go.http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=38306952&highlight=#post38306952
I can sympahise with the OP. I suffer from anxiety attacks concerned with my body, I am a cancer phobic and actually making that appointment when you are worried sick is very difficult.
If it were me and I couldn't get an appointment very quickly, I would go to casualty.
Thats OTT. Ive had lots of lumps in my armpits in the past. Its most likely a swollen lymph node, and of no serious concern.
I can only assume you've never had one??
I was about to suggest that, or a walk-in centre if one is available.
I stress not because it's that serious (no-one here can say one way or another on that) - but because you already have severe anxiety OP, and to fret about this until Monday seems a long time.
They may refer you to someone else on Monday, but at least you will have seen someone with medical knowledge and shared your fears. They may even tell you there and then whether it's 'nothing' or not.
Best wishes to you and your Mum.
In reply to boddism about it being OTT going to casualty, my concern would be for the state of mind of the OP, not the seriousness of any potential lumps. I have had both a 'lump scare' and anxiety attacks, the anxiety was far scarier.
Edit - I missed your very last post OP, so glad you got it sorted out, now enjoy your weekend.
Glad it's sorted, have yourself a good weekend.
Glad you have a peace of mind, though.
No I haven't and obviously I would go to the GP if I could get an appointment. I am fortunate that I can just walk into my GPs surgery any morning and sit and wait and I will be seen. But from what I have heard numerous other people say, they can't get an appointment with their GP for god knows how long. That was what I meant. If you can't get an appointment within a reasonable time then you should go to casualty. I stick by that.
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And it transpires that, when the OP explained the situation to the GPs receptionist, she was given an emergency appointment with an alternative doctor, so THEY obviously thought it was worth an immediate check.
Just because YOUR lumps have turned out to be nothing serious doesn't mean that somebody elses will too.