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[Emm225]

I am on estrodot 50 and have a mirena coil fitted....been on this about 6 months.  Before this I was on estrodot with utrogeston.  Over the last four or five weeks I have had breast tenderness and stabbing pains in my right breast .  I am rather worried and cannot get a doctor's appointment for love nor money at our practice. I know it's probably nothing but having known several relatives/friends who have had breast cancer I am working myself up over it :-(

 Has anyone had experience/advice of this?

[CLKD]

Probably the increase in hormones through the HRT or your own joining in.  I have stabbing pains occasionally and currently have a sore inner right arm which is on the op side  but can put that down to lifting or gardening. 

Is the pain cynical at all? Make that cyclical .......... 

As for getting an app., all Surgeris are open - I went into ours with my calendar and made a face2face GP appt. .  When did U last contact the Receptionist, it may be quicker to see a Nurse Practitioner.

[Emm225]

Thank you, I will monitor it, it can be pretty painful.   Our GP practice is awful, and has been since lockdown.  You phone when the lines open and IF you manage to get in the phone queue (number 32 perhaps) the appointments are gone in the 45 minutes it takes to get through.  I presume they are understaffed and over subscribed...and you can't go down to make an appointment in person, nor are there usually any appointments in advance.  Every patient of theirs in our area says the same....face to face appointments are rarer than hen's teeth...

[Wrensong]

Hi Emm225, I'm sorry you have this worry.   Our surgery has an online request system for patients to flag up issues to be triaged & an appt allocated if it's thought necessary.  If you have nothing like this at your surgery, could you contact the practice manager about the situation with the difficulty in getting appts, briefly outlining why you feel you need to be seen?  Either email or write if phoning is futile?

Failing that, if you have the means you could perhaps have a look online for any private hospitals in the area that may have a breast clinic that takes women on self-referral?  Pain is not usually an early sign of serious breast probs, but we all want & need anything unusual checking out & I think it's reasonable to push for that.
Wx

[Jules]

I've also got pain in my right breast at present, a stinging pain and last night a sharp pain. I've had pain before,  it's always that side. My surgery has an online system that's easier to get help on. Telephone is terrible

[Jules]

That said, I've just made a request online to see a particular doctor,  got a text saying he's off for 2 weeks, please ring this afternoon to make an appointment when he gets back. I thought that's what I was doing. They just send you round in circles and hope you'll give up somewhere

[Luculka]

Emm, I am sure you don't have to worry. I have a top breast specialist, a radio-oncologist who checks me every year and once when I told him that my breast hurt (stabbing also) a lot for last 2 weeks, he told me immediately: "be calm, the big paradox is - breast cancer never hurts, only at the end at the worst stage." And he was right, his scan showed:  my breast was ok. So I am sure Emm, your pain is caused by some hormonal spike... 

[Jules]

Emm, I am sure you don't have to worry. I have a top breast specialist, a radio-oncologist who checks me every year and once when I told him that my breast hurt (stabbing also) a lot for last 2 weeks, he told me immediately: "be calm, the big paradox is - breast cancer never hurts, only at the end at the worst stage." And he was right, his scan showed:  my breast was ok. So I am sure Emm, your pain is caused by some hormonal spike...

I was under a breast specialist for 10 years, saw him every 3 months. my first symptom was pain and tenderness, it was always a result of a cyst which I had aspirated. I had so many. Some i foubd, other times I'd not found it at all but he did. It was so reassuring to know i was expertly checked every 3 months.  On its own pain is not a usual symptom of cancer however if it persists you need to check there's nothing else there. It's not uncommon to get one sided pain. I think mine may be due to lax muscles with aging. I'd always ask a doctor to check though if it carries on. There are breast care nurses attached to hospital breast clinics that you can contact for advice. It's not good enough that it's so difficult to make GP appointments. So many are paying now. My sister, after 3 months struggle to see someone,  has been told there's a 12 months wait to have her skin cancer removed. In desperation,  she's having to pay. Persist with your GP and get checked.

[Jules]

Emm, will you let us know what happens? I'm still getting  a stinging/needling/stabbing pain. Not all the time but it isn't going. I've never used systemic HRT but in the last 2 months increased my used of vagifem and ovestin externally so now worried its that.