Benign fibroid AND breast cancer?
Anyone else with benign fibroids AND pre breast cancer // breast cancer (invasive or non-invasive)? Do you think they’re related??
I’m 31 and I have an 8cm intramural fibroid and I received benign results from my biopsy (yay!). My periods were not very kind to me (bleeding through ultra-sized tampons in under 30 min, crampy, nausea and migraines, exhaustion and dizziness and some fainting from anemia) … that is until I was prescribed hormonal birth control (combined estrogen and progesterone). I still get lots of dizzy spells, pressure on my bladder, gas, and strong cramping after sex and am lightly bleeding everyday (but improvement? Maybe? I dunno?). Unfortunately, my consultation for a myometcomy is all the way in September (diagnosed about 3 months ago).
At the time of getting that diagnosed, I asked about my breast health after noticing some visual changes and nipple discharge. Got imaging done that led to two biopsies (one core needle on the left and one stereotactic on the right). Left side’s results were sus so I have to get another needle biopsy …. again 🙃 but for my right side, they suspect atypical ductal hyperplasia (precancer, basically small amount of cancer cells but they’re not proliferating like breast cancer). I was advised surgery to remove and biopsy the lumps since there is still a risk of actual breast cancer.
I’m just like wtf is going on? No family history of fibroids or breast cancer. All my hormones are in check expect prolactin (moderately elevated to normal levels). Would love to hear other women’s stories combatting both