Starby, had to spread the love, but I agree with you 100%.

Mariahlynn, because my mother pushed to get checked she found her first about with breast cancer soon enough to save her.

Please do not ever take no as an answer, keep changing doctors until you find one that will get to the bottom of this. This is your life, you have to take charge and make sure that you are getting the care you need and deserve.

Don't give up, keep going until you know what's wrong.

We're all here for support, whenever you need us. I can personally vouche for the majority of the people on this site, I have to say, I've never belonged to a place like AMHD, the people here are amazing, I would invite them into my home without a question. So really, talk to us and let us help you through this, if not with medical advice, at least with moral support.

Take care of yourself, keep us posted.

While your lumps may be fibrocystic disease (not really a disease, they should come and go with periods) it is wise to have them checked out. After going through 6 doctors, I finally found one, the 7th, that would do a biopsy. I was only 32 (I was told I was too young), I had no family history of breast cancer, AND my lump was painful, I was told breast cancer is not painful. I opted for a bilateral radical mastectomy with reconstructive surgery because I had a 4 year old daughter I was busy raising and she needed a mother.

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Originally Posted by mariahlynn1

To Altenweg - thank you for being so understanding! Being a girl is not fun. Well maybe sometimes it's fun. Thank you for your support and for your forgiving heart I don't want to get all religious on you or anything but the lord or what ever higher being you belive sees your great heart. My thyroid has been checked. This is a battle I have had since I was in high school. I just saw a different doctor today and she toatally helped me with the pain is thinking it's a tubebal pregnancy which runs pretty steady in my family for some reason. I am pretty lucky to still have all my girl parts at this age for all the women in my family have had early historectomies. Sorry if I misspell things. As you can tell i did not win the spelling contest at school. He he..... Anyway she has great concern about the tenderness under my righ rib cage as well as the tenderness in my back and abdominal area. So she gave me pain medication for now until futher testing can be done. Normaly I have extreamly high blood pressure and today becaucse of the provera to help start my period it was extreamly low. The doctor came un glued when I told her what the other guy put me through. Again thank you for being there for me and listening to me complain. Sorry if I offended anyone esspecially you Altenweg!
Love-
MariahLynn

Quote: Do small things with Great love- Mother Teresa

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I'm sorry I missed this post when I first responded. I now am thinking of a different possibility regarding your pain. You have abdominal pain, rib cage pain, and back pain. Have you ever been diagnosed with gall stones? Usually gall stones affects the right side, but can be known to radiate to the left and is usually under the xyphoid process (where your ribs come together in the front) then radiates around to the back. It may be worth a mention to your doctor.