dragonblade0's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- intimate moment first of all i'm going to start this out with a fair warning that this is fairly intimate, so if you don't want to hear about my breasts, stop reading now. with that said, here i go. reading a magazine i came across an article of "5 strange signs of breast cancer". i read the article, and it really concerned me. for about 2 months, i've had these scaly sorta areas on my areolas. they're mostly unnoticeable now, but i can feel it. so at the beginning, there was a patch of dry, inflammed, bumpy and extremely itchy and spreading patch of skin on each of my breasts. pissed me off, i didn;t know what they were. they spread to the size of about a 2 by 2 cm circle, i think. for about a month it just wouldn't go away. it was itchy, it flaked, even bled a little when the itchiness got so bad i couldn't stand it. i even ended up deeply bruising the skin from my finger nails. eventually after applying liberal amounts of vaseline for days in a row the red went away, but even now, the skin is dry and very slightly puckered up. and then yesterday i come across this article. this is what it said: "if any section of the areola seems scaly or you notice a sore there that doesn't heal after a few weeks, you may have a rare form of breast cancer called Paget's disease." "A puckered texture - as a tumor grows in the breast tissue, it can crowd out the ligaments that make sin firm and smooth, causing a dimpled, creased appearance." "a reddish inflammation that appears on any part of your pair and persists for more than a few weeks may be a sign of the disease." yea..... these concern me. it's definitely gotten better, by a lot, it's not nearly as bumpy as it was, but the patches are still there. they are dry and slightly scaly, i can feel the texture difference. i'm not sure what to do, it's not like they've gone away. i mean, at exams they were horrible and had been around for at least 2 weeks. exam week was at the end of january... i really don't know. maybe i'll go talk to my health nurse on thursday... i doubt it's actually anything, but could it hurt to check? sigh. 9:22 p.m. - 2004-03-10 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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