ok, i can't stand this! This just goes on and on .............. first it was the ovary ache, then, the IBS, then the awful nausea, and all of this in about 10 days ..... all compacted togther .... but NOW....since yesterday, I've noticed an area on my areola, on the top part of the breast, that is sort of light reddish, and sore! Now, im due for my period any day now...HOPEFULLY! (but nowadays, i can't be sure of anything) ..... I saw my GYN yest. as well,..... she did the breast exam, i told her about this, and naturally, she saw it too ..... she asked me if it hurt, and i said it did...only when you press on it...which she then proceeded to do (geesh!), and yes, it hurt (not badly) ... she asked me if there was ANY breast cancer anywhere in my line at all...and I said no....there isn't. There has been cancer itself, and enough of it too...but no BREAST cancer at all .....she didn't seem overly concerned, and we went on to the rest of the pelvic exam from there. She suggested a PELVIC ultrasound, to ease MY mind apparently (bec. I'm a nervous wreck about all of this), but said nothing about the breast. The pelvic was ok, no abnormalities, said in her opinion, i was fine, but why not do the ultrasound anyway. Now....naturally, you realize, i am now panicking over this.......questioning over and over why she'd want that? I mean, if everything was fine, and she said it was....why an ultrasound? She knows there's been cancer in my line, even cervical and uterine.......but as far as I a concerned, she said i seemed fine to her. So, why the ultrasound? Again, the breast thing wasn't brought up again, so i suppose, she didn't feel any lumps there. She suggest a mamogram, just simply because of age, family history, etc.....i didn't get the impression that the mamo was this big thing to her.


NOw.........someone please tell me this is all ok! I know i tend to panic, i can't help that , and i wish i didn't do that! what's so crazy is, i was never like this before! But then again, i never had a thing wrong with me either!

I suppose if she suspected even the SLIGHTEST thing wrong during the pelvic she would have said it......what i found funny was......., before the pelvic we sat and talked, and she wrote diff. things down on my file....normal questions.....how many periods a month....how many pads do you use.....how long does your period last.....blah blah blah.....ok fine..........she then asked me how many times i've been pregnant........i told her 5 times, but I only had 3 kids, bec. i had 2 miscarriages. she just wrote all this down. NOw......fast forward to pelvic......after the PAP....she's feeling around in there for the ovaries and whatever....and again.........she asked me how many "deliveries" i've had, and was anything abnormal, or out of the ordinary in any of them .......... WHAT? So, i said no.........nothing was ever out of the ordinary, or abnormal in all three deliveries.......and the miscarriages were "normal" too. She didnt say anymore about it.......so, WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT? WHY DID SHE ASK ME THAT AGAIN, WHEN SHE WAS DOING THE PELVIC?

OH MAN............see, here goes the panic! xanax time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, i should add here............ (i've taken the xanax!..lol) ... that this month, this "cycle" has been hell! like i said above, there have been so many horrible, aching, painful symptoms THIS month, that i won't soon forget this! But....my point is..................could this whole reddish area (which by the way, as far as today goes.....HAS ALMOST DISAPPEARED, BUT IS STILL TENDER) .... could be hormonal? Because so far this cycle....adn I havent' gotten my period yet...i'm due anyday now........ but so far, this cycle has been so bad with so many other symptoms, that i wondered if this reddish sore spot on my areola could be part of all THIS MONTHS hormonal hell?!!!!

DOES ANYONE HERE GET THIS? ANY KIND OF LIGHT REDDISH SORE/TENDER SPOTS ON THEIR BREASTS?
like i said, the color is fading......but the tenderness/soreness is still there....not badly, but there. IT doesn't ache by itself, you do have to touch it. I have thought of my bra, but then again, I dont' think that's it either......it's not a change in detergent either........

Aaaah My Darling,
Can hear the panic in your post,have spent this last month almost identical to you.

Is it any wonder we are full of anxiety when our bodies are going through mayhem?

Have read your previous posts on breast issues,and you posted on one of mine concerning left breast,is this on the same one?
I have been to Dr,s more times than I can shake a stick at over this.
I can,t offer any advice just that I know how terrifying all this is.

It could be this area is more sensitive to hormonal changes? and if we got a sore patch somewhere else we might not be as concerned.

I had a huge excema patch appear on the back of my leg wasn,t concerned at all about that (surprisingly)

At least your Dr is looking into it.

Yet I do understand how you are feeling. I never suffered with this raw fear that I now own untill a year ago and I cannot shake it off

Take care
Kath

I have one in the middle of my chest and had one on my ankle ,, the one on my ankle went away ,, I think the one on my chest probably has to be burnt off.. I would go to see a dermatologist if I were you ,, they know so much more about what is going on with the dermis then your GP or even Gyno does..

Exactly the same experience for me. Every little twinge, weird thing throws me for a loop. I just decided to give everything about 1 month to 6 weeks to see if it cycles away and usually it does. I didn't start experiencing this raw fear until about a year ago as well. It is no fun. I finally went on an AD which keeps the obsessive and what if and OMG feelings at bay. It's still there but more manageable. I lay in bed a lot. I was so overwhelmed this year like MyDarling, one thing after another, I literally burnt myself out, I was just emotionally exhausted. The funny thing is I get a call from Kaiser that they are sending me a at home Colonscopy test, oh yeah, I was planning on ignoring that test this year and once again Kaiser and their "Live Well, Live Long" or something like that is stalking me, lol. I know I need to do it I just need to get myself stabilized a bit more. I developed a major Dr. office phobia. I step into an office and I go into major panic. Know I gotta work on that, but, I need a break and I'm taking it. Hope you feel better MyDarling and Kath, we are all in the same boat, I just try and keep the boat from sinking as best I can. MyDarling I have had a red mark on my breast it could have been a bruise from my dog, it went away, it wasn't sore though. Take care of yourselves, Mich

ok, now, this sore "area" is still here,,,,the red color seems to have faded, not completely, but a good amt...but, it's still sore.... now, i noticed, as i was closely examining my breast today, that, the MAIN sore spot, seems to be a little pimple thing, almost like as if a hair had been pulled out! Now... on occasion, i DO get these little hair things growing on my breast now.....so, that might be it ... it looks like a hair has been pulled out of it's root sort of .... weird. That is the MAIN sore spot....however, the soreness kind of spreads farther up (in the direction of my neck) from that actual little sore spot....more up on the breast ........ it's not spreading around the whole breast, just further up ..... and it feels sore! so now.......i sit here and panic about that too ......... thinking, ok, if this were just a hair...... why in the world would it be hurting up farther on the breast???????

more xanax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 now on top of this........i have to wait for the pap test!

oh mydarling, I am so sorry that you are having so much anxiety over all of this. I feel for you. Things keep changing so fast and so much! If I could, I really think I would crawl into a cave and wait for all this to be over.

I am so tired of all this stuff. Anxiety seems to be a way of life for me. Try to remember that these tests your doctor wants are normal in the course of life as we get older. And certainly remember that these doctors do not consider our feelings when talking and asking questions. They just blurt stuff out sometimes.

I hope your anxiety is calming down.
Hugs to you,
Jeaninne