October is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness around the World. Ladies have you checked your Breasts as part of your daily routine every month? Do you know how to properly examine your breasts? Have you scheduled a visit with your Physician? Do you have a Family history of Breast Cancer? Do you know the long term risks of not getting tested?
We often forget to take care of ourselves because we put others first. Remember to put yourself first before others to better care for yourself. There are steps to properly check your breasts for lumps. Below are steps I have found that maybe useful to properly examine your breasts.
🎗 Step 1: Habitual Routine
Make it a habitual routine to examine your breasts at least once a month. This step will become easier as you remember to examine. While standing in front of the mirror. Familiarize yourself with the way they look and feel. Raise your hands in the air to see if there is a difference in the way your breasts look. Look for any signs of watery, milky, yellow fluid or blood. While your lying down in bed, use your right hand to feel your left breast and your left breast to feel your right breast.
Use a firm smooth touch with first few fingers, keep fingers flat and together using a circular motion. Take a few minutes out of your day before, after shower, while your getting dressed for work, brunch, date, night out in town, or vacation.
🎗 Step 2: Knowing your Breasts
Take time to know your breasts from the shape of your areola's, nipples, under your arm pit, to search for any unusual lumps. You should look for changes in your breasts before and after your period. They will be swollen or tender during that time, examine them a few days after your period.
🎗 Step 3: Document
Have a journal, calendar, notepad, to write down the day and month you last examined your breasts. Keeping a monthly record of the day and month when you checked helps. In case if you feel something unusual in area, you will be able to tell your physician.
🎗 Step 4: Listen to your body
In a situation if you feel a lump that was not in a certain area, immediately schedule an appointment with your Physician. Bring your journal with you to the appointment and inform your physician of your monthly routines so they are well aware of when you noticed a change in your breasts and where you located the lump.
Discuss with other woman about information about Breast Cancer and how you should properly examine, listen, inform your Physician. Spread the knowledge and information to woman who are not on a monthly routine.
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