Kkori
December 3rd, 2009, 05:54 AM
Hello,
The last time I was here I asked for advice about being a late bloomer and I was worried about not getting my period. I got it seven months after I turned fourteen after the nurses gave me another year to check it out. Thanks for all the advice.
But I need help now.
When I was almost twelve I found a lump in my right breast and was scared of breast cancer, so I showed my mum and she told me she thought I was developing. After a while I got one in my left breast. They were tender and painful, but later I found out about breast buds and so forth so I stopped worrying about them.
The thing is, even after I've had some sort of growth spurt and I've had my period for approximately six months, the lumps are still there. They've been there for the past three years and I have thought nothing of them. My breasts still hurt when I roll over, and I can kind of move the lumps around, and they seem to get bigger just before my period (based on the little I have had), and sometimes I think that they are shrinking (like today) but they come back. They never disappear. Additionally, my breasts don't grow. At least, not noticeably. They're at the pointy stage and whatever it's called.
I know that breast cancer is almost unheard of in teenagers and especially in both breasts but surely breast buds don't last for so long! My mother has probably forgotten about me telling her about them, and since I've been battling with somewhat hypochondriatic tendencies I don't want to be more of a burden to my parents. She doesn't know they're still there, and I've been contemplating telling her, but somehow I don't want to. Recently I've also been experiencing chest pains (mild, intermittent, either in left or right breast) and have been freaking out about them because I worry about heart attacks and so forth, but I guess it's... development? I don't know.
So in short: I've had one lump in each breast for three years and they won't go away. HELP.
EDIT: Some questions on Yahoo Answers indicate that lumps in both breasts since thelarche (or something like that) are usually just normal and are just breast tissue, like here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090528215325AAZyeM2) and here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091021054158AAAdKhD). What do you think of that?
The last time I was here I asked for advice about being a late bloomer and I was worried about not getting my period. I got it seven months after I turned fourteen after the nurses gave me another year to check it out. Thanks for all the advice.
But I need help now.
When I was almost twelve I found a lump in my right breast and was scared of breast cancer, so I showed my mum and she told me she thought I was developing. After a while I got one in my left breast. They were tender and painful, but later I found out about breast buds and so forth so I stopped worrying about them.
The thing is, even after I've had some sort of growth spurt and I've had my period for approximately six months, the lumps are still there. They've been there for the past three years and I have thought nothing of them. My breasts still hurt when I roll over, and I can kind of move the lumps around, and they seem to get bigger just before my period (based on the little I have had), and sometimes I think that they are shrinking (like today) but they come back. They never disappear. Additionally, my breasts don't grow. At least, not noticeably. They're at the pointy stage and whatever it's called.
I know that breast cancer is almost unheard of in teenagers and especially in both breasts but surely breast buds don't last for so long! My mother has probably forgotten about me telling her about them, and since I've been battling with somewhat hypochondriatic tendencies I don't want to be more of a burden to my parents. She doesn't know they're still there, and I've been contemplating telling her, but somehow I don't want to. Recently I've also been experiencing chest pains (mild, intermittent, either in left or right breast) and have been freaking out about them because I worry about heart attacks and so forth, but I guess it's... development? I don't know.
So in short: I've had one lump in each breast for three years and they won't go away. HELP.
EDIT: Some questions on Yahoo Answers indicate that lumps in both breasts since thelarche (or something like that) are usually just normal and are just breast tissue, like here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090528215325AAZyeM2) and here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091021054158AAAdKhD). What do you think of that?