Pain in One Breast - Get Checked Out or Wait?

Yep - call the OB just to be safe. It could be something, it could be nothing. A trained professional needs to take a look. Good luck!

I hope this makes you feel better. I started getting the same thing, but I'm 5 years older than you. I tend to overreact to things, so I got it checked out and had all the tests just to be sure. It was nothing (well, fibrocystic breast tissue, but nothing scary).

My doctor told me that usually cancer is NOT painful. This is a comfort, but honestly- isn't only a comfort once a doc has checked it.

Make an appointment just to be sure, better safe than sorry. Even just with your primary care if you can't get in with your OB.

Adriana,

If there is one thing I have learned in the past 4 years since having my baby: question everything!

Spend the extra $ and go get a thermal imaging scan of your body - not just your breasts. The money spent includes the scan being read by a physician trained for it.

There should be somewhere in NJ that does this. If not, definitely NYC.

it is worth the $ to go and find out. It is also well worth the money to avoid unnecessary radiation to do so. (all radiation from xrays diagnostic or environmental (like plane flights) are cumulative in your body!) If there is no chance you are pregnant, and are definitely not lactating, then this is the much more effective diagnostic tool.

Not many talk about this because it WAS debunked in the 80's as being useless - it picked up far too many anomalies to be useful and they weren't picked up on in xrays as cancerous. What is lesser known is that those 'anomalies' were cancer before anything else could determine or diagnose it. So now it is coming back again as a diagnostic tool but is still not covered by insurance.

history or no history, I'd get it checked out. It might be anything. It might be nothing. It goes beyond 'not knowing' and 'peace of mind' to 'I want to live for a long time!'

once I am done nursing, I fully intend (hopefully it will be covered by then!) to get checked out by thermoscan. Having found out about it after being pregnant or nursing, hasn't helped my attitude toward my previous OB.

Good luck,
M.

PS: I can't receive messages through this medium and/or reply to the ones that I have received. I don't know what is wrong, and don't know how to fix it. There doesn't seem to be a way of contacting the owners of this site to do so. Sad, because I have more questions I'd like to ask in this forum.

Please call your OB or your primary care physician. Let them determine if this is something that you should be seen for. That's why you have them in your employ: so that you don't have figure out if this is a serious medical concern or not and they can help you through it.

I would rather get it checked out and discover that it's nothing than assume it's nothing and find out I should have taken preventative care.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/inflammatory-breast-canc...

I just had to respond to someone elses post about their doctor saying that cancer is not painful. I don't think this is always true. There is a type of cancer called Inflammatory Breast cancer. I have an aquaintance who came down with this cancer and it does not present as a lump. From the above link:
Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare type of breast cancer that develops rapidly, making the affected breast red, swollen and tender. Inflammatory breast cancer occurs when cancer cells block the lymphatic vessels in the breast, causing the characteristic red, swollen appearance of the breast.

I don't want to scare anyone, but I always thought breast cancer started with a lump until I met this woman and learned about IBC.

That is what happened to my mother as well - 20 years ago. It was cancer. Get it checked. If it is cancer, the earlier it is caught the better your prognosis. Don't let a doctor tell you to wait - it can take weeks just to get in for a mammogram and even longer to get a biopsy.

I found something suspicious nearly 5 weeks ago - had the mammogram last week and my biopsy is tomorrow. So much for the great health care here.

Please get it checked out. You could have developed fibrocystic breasts -- not harmful, but annoying, and if you consume caffeine, that tends to create the cysts that cause fibrocystic issues. As someone else also noted already, another far more serious thing can be inflammatory BC, which is not all that common (so don't freak out) but does cause pain when other forms of BC don't.

Well, I'm right there with you but I'm 41 and mine does seem to correlate with cycles (though that never happened before).

I would say that we both should see the doctor (though I'm not looking forward to it).

I had a mammogram once before and my technician told me to always mention breast pain to the doc.

Good luck.

Hi Adriana. It's always good to have anything checked out that concerns you. Could be a cyst or something like that. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 35. Most women diagnosed have NO family history. However, normally pain does not equal breast cancer. Pain is typically not a symptom of it. However, there are numerous other things that it could be and you should find out what it is that is going on even if not cancer.

I would make an appointment to see your doctor. You never know what it could be. Something as little as a pulled muscle, to something else. Better to be safe than sorry.

check your caffeine consumption levels! That definitely can create breast pain.....

& as a head's up: my 1st mamm was at 29 due to this!