Hi CLKD
Thank you for your reply. Before menopause I’m sure I had some occasional breast pains but very mild, I never noticed, but as peri menopause must have been taking place it felt more pronounced I guess. The thing that worries me is that it’s now 8 months since the biopsies and it’s only the area of where they went but I guess there must be scar tissue inside? On the outside there’s a little dot visible only.
Massage does help, and really it’s not severe pain or anything, it’s just my mind doing overtime. All these articles say that pain itself is very rarely a sign of cancer (and I had a completely clean result!) but if it’s persistently in one area, then… It literally feels as if the ducts or whatever is inside the breast swells a little in response to hormones applied (to thighs) and then as if something was blocked so I feel pressure in the area. Massage it a bit and it seems to go away. Then comes back again perhaps when hormones are dropping towards the evening? If only I knew that yes, it’s scar tissue from biopsy blocking something or pressing on nerve, then I guess I wouldn’t even think about it.
Sorry to hear about your surgery, I feel like so trivial to complain about my lot when yours sounds so much bigger. How are you feeling about it all?
Is HRT still an option for you? Those 8 months ago it wasn’t just the possibility of breast cancer that scared the hell out of me but the prospect of life without HRT, just couldn’t bear that. After five or six years I am finally feeling like me, so they would have to prize the HRT out of my dying hand
Hope you are coping well with everything? Xx