[InACorner]

i have these weird lumps growing out of my chest...the doctor said i was fine..my blood work is fine...so thats it...nothing else to say...whats new...this is the second time i went to the doctor and all they do is look at me....the first time they said....go home ...rest...your being stressed ....i hate that ...i wanted to say...you know what ...im in so much pain it makes me cry...it makes me limp....and you say its stress....you throw freaking sample packets of lexapro at me to get away from you.....and you cant just treat me with some respect.....and then there are other people who come in (like my bfs family) who walk into the doctors office for a cold and are diagnosed with diabetes and ovarian cancer and prostate cancer and pnemonia and high blood pressure and low blood pressure ...omg ...im not asking for something bad ...I AM ASKING FOR ANSWERS!!!!!!! TELL ME WHAT THESE FREAKING LUMPS ARE OTHER THAN YOU DONT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

grr...im sorry...it sucks not knowing ...it sucks that i call my RN stepdad and ask him about these bone hard lumps growing out of my brestbone near my sternum and all he says is ...well its nothing just stress....dont worry about it.....so here i am ...looking like a mutant....with pain and weakness in my joints and migranes and people say...oh your freaking nuts....bye!!!...but they spend hours checking out everyone else and making sure that everyone else is ok

i hate it
i hate it
i hate it

im going to cry with frusteration....

[HALLIEBETH87]

*hugs* sorry ur hurting

[bebop]

find another dr. this just does not sound right.

[Perna]

It could be your axillary lymph nodes? If you are chronically stressed, they wouldn't "turn off" and let the fight/flight hormones go away. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/34547.php

If your bloodwork is fine, I truly would not worry about it; you can trust your blood even if you can't trust your doctor; any infection or problem would show up, couldn't be hidden.

[Rose3]

try another doctor?

what other tests could be done?

have there been any changes?

[January]

Perna had a wonderful idea as to what it could be. Please do go to another Dr. You need some answers.

Hugs,

Jan

[wickedwings]

gosh, i can totally understand not knowing and freaking out. i would go to another doctor, definitely, because the one you're going to is obviously not helping you because they are not explaining what is going on with you. as for your rn stepdad, if i'm remembering right, i would not go to him. just go on your own. i know this is hard to do, but to find an explanation, it would be worth it. i'm so sorry that you're not getting any support with this. you deserve it. you don't need to be so freaked out like this; you need answers and you have that right.

[InACorner]

thanks you guys....its been so frusterating....i know i need another doctor....the whole thing has just been fueling my need for more validation....trying to distinguish myself from a hypochondriac...someone had told me it might be fatty tissue deposits but i heard that they are soft perhaps? And they dont grow? Who knows....thank you sooo much for all of your support

[January]

Fatty tissue deposits do grow and they are hard. You can move them around a tiny bit when you poke them.

I want to share something with you.

When I was married, no matter how hurt I was, my ex would always say there was nothing wrong with me. When I would leave the ER in a cast it was like a victory for me because he thought even broken bones were just my "nerves".

Go find another Dr., Inny. You need to know what is happening.

Hugs,

Jan

[InACorner]

yea...i will see another doctor...

these lumps dont move at all...they are solid hard..like bone almost....one i had since January and its been sorta growing...the other one (which is lower left) just started growing....they took ex rays and saw nothing....and there is nothing in my blood ....its crazy...you can see it on the outside but there is nothing to suggest that they even exist.....the doctor kinda just chalked it up to my breast bone growing and that my chest is bony...i dont have alot of fat ...but i kept telling him that they werent there before so it couldnt be because i have a "skinny chest" otherwise it would already be there......i just never could get the idea that my breastbone is growing in lumps...why would they be growing now....im 20....no idea...