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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/fantasticmrrfox on 2023-09-30 20:22:01.
I am 21 F so I understand the circumstances are VERY small that I have breast cancer. I felt a small bump in my breast earlier in the year but the past month it grew bigger to the point I can feel it while running my hand across my chest. I stopped birth control wondering if it was hormones, waited a bit to call my Dr to see if it was just my period but it hasn’t changed if anything it’s a little bigger. I have been dizzy the past two weeks especially sitting down, I didn’t think much of it since I have dysautonomia so I am dizzy sometimes but this was happening when I was sitting so it was out of the norm for me. I started to get very nauseous and gagging all of yesterday so I called my doctor up (was going to wait until my physical at the end of October) to get another appointment for a breast exam/mammogram. They seemed shocked and asked why. I told them the basics and their demeanor changed when I said I had a lump in my breast and was feeling dizzy this past couple weeks. I was immediately scheduled for a different doctor than normal and they said if I couldn’t make it to that appointment then go to the ER. I made it to the doctor’s that day but felt as if she didn’t even consider it being anything. She mainly focused on my dizziness, saying it’s possibly just fluid in my ear and making up symptoms for me. At the end she almost even forgot to check my breast for a lump. It is an obvious one you can feel and nothing on the other side. She scheduled me for a ultrasound and said she wanted to avoid radiation from the mammogram (I understand). I just feel very dismissed after that and she didn’t acknowledge the bruise or bluish mark right where the bump is (new).