ANXIETY and breast pain

I once read that pain in a breast is almost never linked to breast cancer. I read that at a time when I was having a weird pain/tenderness. I got it checked out, and my dr found nothing. She also reiterated what I said above.

In my case, my bra was too tight and the wire was starting to poke through the fabric and into my boob. I felt like such an idiot after I discovered that! But, it actually took several days for the sore spot to heal up and not hurt anymore.

You've just got to try and breathe and keep your mind occupied on other things. I'm sure it is nothing to worry about.

I know it's anxiety-making when these strange pains pop up and your mind goes to the worst case scenario! I get random pains in my breasts from time to time, but there's noting wrong with them. In my case, I think it's leftover tissue pain from my breast reduction several years ago. Boobs are full of delicate tissue that gets achy sometimes!

Do you get treatment for your anxiety? Is it a chronic problem for you? I hope you have talked to your doctor about it. There are meds you can take at times when your anxiety is overwhelming you. I have a supply of Ativan for those times, and honestly, just knowing it's there if I need it helps a lot. I very seldom have to take it. You might want to look into that. I hate to think of you feeling so anxious with no remedy--it's an awful feeling, I know.

I also find that aches can come cyclically.

I have fibrocystic breasts. Sometimes they hurt, randomly, not in the same place all the time. It's completely normal and nothing to worry about. I have also heard that pain almost always means benign.

I found my first lump when I was 21 and I was a basket case. I knew I was going to die and leave my 2 year old an orphan. What helped me, until I was able to get in to see my doctor, was people telling me all of the things it could be that weren't cancer. In my young mind, anything wrong with your breasts was cancer, or at least something as bad as cancer. By the time my doctor referred me to a breast specialist, I knew all of the completely benign things it might be, and I was fine. He did a great job of convincing me that it was nothing, and he was right, it was nothing. 25 years later, haven't had another issue, just fibrocystic lumpiness and years and years of clean mammograms.

I second what Mystie said about anxiety meds. Don't suffer if you can do something about it. For me, I always had to take them at the first sign of any kind of symptom, because if I waited too long my anxious brain would convince me that the meds would keep me from worrying about something I really needed to be worried about, then I would be too scared to take them. Yay anxiety!

Do you think it could be acid reflux? I went to the dr recently thinking something might be wrong with my lungs, having pain between my rib cage (front and back) and it turns out it was acid reflux.