Symptoms before being diagnosed
I wanted to see what symptoms did you all get from breast cancer before you were diagnosed as there are hardly any when you look them up but have noticed I got different ones in the time period I started noticing the lumps.
I had and still have tiredness, indigestion, loss of appetite and loss of weight.
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I am so sorry that you are worried. To be honest, there are no specific set of symptoms that signal breast cancer. Some find palpable lumps, some don’t. Aside from that, breast cancer presents with few, and often, non-specific symptoms. What you describe could be any number of things, the vast majority of which would not be breast cancer. Breast cancer can only be diagnosed with imaging and then a biopsy if imaging supports that.
Since bc often presents with few or no symptoms (that’s why you find little when googling), please make a doctor’s appointment to address your concerns. I understand that this can be stressful so please make that appointment as only a doctor can work with you to find out why you are experiencing symptoms. Take care
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I actually did not have any symptoms that I could contribute to breast cancer. Mine was found on a routine mammogram. I did self checks often and never felt it, even after knowing exactly where it was at I still could not find it. My mammogram the year before was clear and my yearly appointment 6 months earlier did not find anything either. Hope you figure out the cause of all your issues.
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Hi @ovarianwarrior90 and I’m so sorry … I read your other posts and realize you are newly diagnosed! It’s such a blindside for most of us.
One thing I noticed in the months before my diagnosis was new and unexplained crushing fatigue … I called it “falling off an energy cliff” … it wasn’t every day but I wouldn’t see it coming and suddenly I would feel so drained, without any energy in my body and it would take hours to revive. I would try eating and hydrating my way out of it, but that didn’t seem to help. Or I’d wake up like that and feel like a sloth for half the day. It was so weird, unlike any fatigue I had ever had before. I went to my primary care doctor and explained how I was feeling (fatigue and other things) and she suggested it could all be attributed to anxiety. That was incredibly dismissive and upsetting! But anyway, once I realized I had cancer, it made sense to me.
I know I probably was having a variety of things that go with perimenopause too. I was 49 years old. It’s probably impossible to say what was definitely from the cancer and what is from hormones. And now I’ll never know what’s what being on hormone treatment. I’m glad you figured this out! And it sounds like it’s not your first rodeo. I know little about Triple Negative … I hope all goes well 😊
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@ovarianwarrior90 I am so sorry, I read that as you were worried about the symptoms being from breast cancer. I did not realize you had already been diagnosed. Sorry I misunderstood.
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