I had such a scare. I had all the symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer disease: open abscess on the breast, burning pain in the arm pits and surrounding tissue.
Mr K said 'hidradenitus suppurativa' it was such a relief. Okay, it's a deep infection and it will probably be square cut almost to te bone to be removed... but I could have been facing a double mastectomy with removal of my arm pit glands and removal of my back muscles to rebuild breast foundation surfaces... and then brest re-construcion and implants. I am sooo happy... I have had skin abscesses for five years, but as a teenager I had an outbreak of incredibly itchy boils on my stomach and groin and at the time was treated for SCABIES!! - I also had a long term internal 'cut' inside my back passage which was holy agony for about ten years until it cleared up out of the blue in my thirties forever - and then developed into this condition which was never diagnosed until now.
I even made my will out. At the diagnostic cancer unit I will never forget the fear of thinking I Had cancer and feel deep in my heart now for anyone that does.
As a writer of films, television, books and theatre i've decided to publish my memoir of this journey as the similarity between the two pathologies is frighteningly similar... I am giving all the money to
Cancer Research UK
Small 2-4mm lumps filled with clear liquid then gain small brown centre then skin around the lumps thickens before peeling away
Rash,sticky skin,and perennial abscess
Red Skin Syndrome and Topical Steroid Addiction
Please help, unknown skin issue making our lives hell
