Rachel Hopkins
Breast Cancer
Tell us the day you were diagnosed with breast cancer
Share what happened on the day you were diagnosed. I was originally diagnosed with DCIS (ductal cell carcinoma insitu) after the first minor procedure - they had detected cancer...
Rachel Hopkins
Breast Cancer
Share the treatment plan that you are using
What treatment plan have you tried, or currently trying? As mentioned in previous post, 5 surgeries between april and august 2015. Was lucky that I didn't have to do chemo or...
Rachel Hopkins
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? My symptoms were the "usual symptoms" for breast cancer. I had noticed a few "leaks" out of the left breast for a few weeks but didn't...
Christine Perkins
Breast Cancer
Lifestyle changes that you have acquired since your diagnosis
What lifestyle changes have you made since your diagnosis? I have been on a carb free diet since January and it's now April. I know that this can have radical effects on the...
Christine Perkins
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Pains up my right breast, in my back, neck, arm pit and down my arm. Also had pins and needles in my hand and an indentation line down...
Lynn Boyle
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I didn’t have any symptoms. I was aged 51 and a friends sister-in-law had just been diagnosed with Breast Cancer so I asked my GP if I...
Ina Clark
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Found a small lump in my right breast but sometimes it would disappear 6 months later was size of a frozen pea and didn't move and I knew...
Pat Modica
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? NoneWhat tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Mammogram, ultrasound and then biopsyUpon learning about your diagnosis-...
Monica Alty
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? One day getting out of the shower, I looked in the mirror and noticed my right breast had some dimpling and looked smaller than my left....
Deborah McCain
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? It was the same for me. I knew something was wrong. I finally just made them do something. Thank Jesus I was only stage 2. But if it...
Marsha Hollister
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? At age 37, I found an indentation in my right breast. No symptoms. What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? My...
Mary Hofhine
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? NoneWhat tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Mamo, then a biopsy, then my diagnosis of Stage 1 breast cancer Upon...
Shirley Buckley
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? A very small lump found when checking whilst having my shower, when I touched it, I also had pain. What tests did your doctor do, and what...
Gen Ohane
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? In February of 2017 I experienced an ache or pain (at times) in my left breast. I went to my Ob/GY he examined my breasts, and he said...
Kim Pelkey
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Nothing. What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Mammo and ultra sound. Upon learning about your diagnosis- what...
Lynne White
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had a line along the bottom curve of my right breast. I kept asking my OBGYN what was going on, but she always said my mammograms were...
Vicki Agius
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? A pin prick of blood in my bra two days running! Nothing else!What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? EXAMINATION,...
Toni Saxon
Breast Cancer
Tell us the day you were diagnosed with breast cancer
Share what happened on the day you were diagnosed. Absolutely devastated. Did not know which way to turn. Especially since I had lost my mother and sister to cancer a few years...
Toni Saxon
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Cysts in the breast. 12 years of mammograms and ultrasounds. What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Regular...
Elle Harbidge
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I accidentally found a lump in my breast not from a monthly check up but just by my arm brushing against my breast. Please check yourself...
