My sister injured her knee very badly during an exercise class. One of my best friends and I are in agreement that this is a very good reason not to exercise.
A breast self-exam is kind of the same thing.
Right around the time of Miss I.'s arrival, I noticed something. I didn't think that something could be really something (or if it was, I thought it was a swollen gland) -- after all, what were the odds? With everything else I already have? Just after the baby finally came home?! But since I'd found it, I decided to ask my doctor. We followed it through my cycles for two months, and it didn't change. And she found another.
Dh had a dream that night. Dh, who never dreams (or never remembers dreaming, which is more likely), dreamt that I left him, and left a message asking when he wanted to meet me to get the kids. I was leaving them too. Since I'm in the middle of reading The Interpretation of Dreams, I was trying to figure out how that could possibly be wishfulfillment and not an anxiety dream (but Wittgenstein argues that Freud's work suffers for his urphanomen, and I can't argue with that). Dh couldn't decide if it was a dream about breast cancer or about my supreme frustration of late, but either way, he was mad at me. Even after he woke up.
Radiology at our women's hospital also takes the possibility of breast cancer in a young (not that I feel young) woman seriously, and they squeezed me in right away to squeeze me. The radiologist did the exam himself. He asked if I'd found the lump myself: "During a self-exam? No one does those things."
I did, and I found something, and I'm fine.
On the one hand, the possibility of false alarm - or, if you're avoidant like me, of a real alarm - seems like a good reason not to do a breast self-exam. On the other hand, it isn't better not to know.
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I found lumps when I first went to the family planning center and I felt one of those fake boobs and broke down crying cause I had those lumps--- a few experts later and I pretty much cut caffeine from my diet. Did they tell you anything about cutting out caffeine?
There are so many reasons I should quit caffeine . . . They didn't mention it.
I have fibroids- and while I usually think doctors are full of hooey it helped me:
http://www.healthyhealing.com/forwomen-fibro.html
particularly under the diet section- #2. yes- I know - it says chocolate.
I had a couple lumps found at a yearly check up and the first thing she asked me was if I drank a lot of soda or ate a lot of chocolate (nope!) I'm surprised they didn't mention caffeine to you. Glad to hear everything came out ok with the follow up!
Oh goodness I am glad you detected it and also that you are just fine. I am sure it was a little bit of worry you didn't need, being a busy mom with two little ones! So happy it turned out well.
Whew! What a relief that it wasn't anything serious!
Occasionally I remember to do self-examinations. So far, thankfully, I haven't felt any lumps.
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