How to Perform a Breast Self-Exam

[@Sarappreciates]

Thank you so much for making this! 💗 We need to look out for each other. I'm stage 4, but there wasn't any noticeable lump! It was just a really insignificant (easily ignored) pain that came and went for about a year when it started to be there more often than not. Still, it was barely-there pain, not severe at any point. Also I had so much fatigue that it felt a lot like some of my darkest moments during my years of experience with depression, not something I'd expect cancer to feel like! FYI: Did you know that sometimes cancer is misdiagnosed as depression? Symptoms of both diseases can be quite similar, and both have symptoms that are known to feed into each other. Hank Green (one of KZbin's best science communicators) did a video about it while he was in treatment for lymphoma, and it was kinda validating for me. TLDR; It can be very healing to understand how our emotional state (brain chemistry) connects to the rest of our bodies.

[@claireee6958]

I have lumpy breasts normally which can get worse depending where I am in my cycle, how would I know which lump is possibly cancer this has always confused me because I do often feel lumps?

[@graciousme2258]

I am the same. You have to keep an eye on which ones go after a week and if you notice one stays then you can get to the doctor

[@nbcf]

Hello there. Unfortunately, we cannot give medical advice since we do not have any medical professionals on staff. We encourage you to consult your doctor for any changes that you notice in your breasts.