So I had my yearly exam this morning and the dr found a lump in my left breast. I have been referred for a mammogram. My mom has had them many times and has a history of fibroids so I am praying that is what this is too!
Anyone else ever find a lump? (scary part is that I can't feel it!! even knowing where it is)
If you did what was the outcome? Share your stories please to put my mind at ease or to at least give me an idea of what to expect.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
My mom had to have a biopsy twice and both times not cancer!
pomegranate / 3355 posts
@snowjewelz: thanks!! my mom too so I am really hoping I am just taking after her
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
I hope that's all it is!!!!
I get lumps from drinking too much caffeine. Also from being on bc.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@Ajsmommy: I mean, I know mammogram and possibly biopsies are no fun too 
Also although it's scary, I'd want to find out anything ASAP for the best chance of nipping it in the butt too. Hang in there
pomegranate / 3565 posts
I did. In December I found a lump when I scratched my breast. I made my mom and husband check it out to make sure I wasn't imagining it. I called my OB who saw me that day. She said she thought it was probably a subaceous cyst (I'm sure I misspelled that), and sent me for a mammogram that day. They did the mammogram and an ultrasound and concluded it was a cyst. I was told to come back in 6 months for a follow up. I went back in August - another mammogram and ultrasound later showed the cyst was still there but much smaller. Everything was ok. I'm 37 so I plan to get yearly mammograms going forward.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
I don't have any advice, but I hope it turns out to be nothing serious!
pomegranate / 3355 posts
@Alivoo01: thank you so much!
@blackbird: I drink a good bit of caffeine, maybe that's my problem? hoping so!
@snowjewelz: yes, I agree and that's my husbands view too. I got my mammogram set up for 2 weeks and he was like get one sooner!!
@Mamasig: how did you get your test done so fast?? did you ask for it or did that just happen? My dr just gave me a list and recommended I call one place that she circled. The first apt they have is in 2 weeks...
@Adira: thank you
cherry / 220 posts
I had a lump back in April and had an ultrasound done. Turns out I just had/have extremely dense tissue in that one area so it feels like a lump but in actuality is nothing.
pear / 1770 posts
I haven't had this personally, but I my mom always had to have extra mammograms because she had dense breast tissue. Hopefully a 3D mammogram will give you a clean bill of health and you won't even need a biopsy!
grapefruit / 4418 posts
@Ajsmommy: I had a lump and my PCP immediately referred me to the cancer center. I was terrified. They did an ultrasound and biopsied it that day and it was benign. I was supposed to get it rechecked but then I got pregnant so they wouldn't check it. It got huge while pregnant and now is gone. Most likely it's nothing. Keeping you in my thoughts. I'm surprised though they're doing a mammogram first instead of just going to biopsy.
pomegranate / 3127 posts
I hope it's nothing!
My mom had a lump. I think it was just a leftover from a bad case of mastitis, but this was 30 years ago and medicine wasn't what it is today, so her doctor removed it just in case.
pomegranate / 3521 posts
I had a mammo, biopsy and then a lumpectomy while pregnant. Feel free to PM me. Can't type out everything at the moment.
pomelo / 5628 posts
I still have a lump that I first noticed a couple of years ago. It's pretty large. I also have the BRCA2 breast cancer mutation so I take everything extremely seriously! Ultrasound and mammo determined that the lump is nothing...just fibrous if I remember right.
I get screened yearly with both mammo and breast MRI and this year they found something suspicious (.8cm...I couldn't feel it...so I had to get a biopsy and it was also negative.
It's very likely that's it's nothing...but of course it's important to check everything out! Good luck.
pomegranate / 3565 posts
@Ajsmommy: My OB is part of a medical practice associated with and located next to a major woman's hospital. This hospital serves all women's healthcare needs from having a baby to menopause, etc. About 90% of the babies born here are delivered in this hospital. Anyway, they have a major imaging center. I just walked on over with my orders. The radiologist reviewed everything right away. I didn't have to wait for results or anything. It was about 4-5 hours from when I called my OB to getting final results. I'm sorry it's not so straightforward for you! The waiting has got to suck!
clementine / 806 posts
Back when we were TTC, my OB found a lump during a checkup. I think the whole process took a month from finding it -> ultrasound -> biopsy -> lumpectomy. It was very stressful because at each step of the way they kept saying "I'm sure it's nothing, but we should go ahead and do xyz". But in the end, they were right!
You can laugh at me, but we were SO stressed about TTC that we had sex 24 hours after my lumpectomy, while I was still wearing a bandage. It was awful!! Worst idea ever!
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
My mom has always had a lump that they've watched, but it's just been fibrous. I have a lump that they're also watching that I found when I was pregnant. They did an ultrasound on it after I had the baby, but because I was breastfeeding, it was a little difficult for them to scan (boobs kept filling with milk). But, they scanned for a long time and didn't see anything concerning.... just fibroids.
pomegranate / 3355 posts
Sorry to revisit this post. But to all of you that felt your own lump, was it obvious? And those who's dr felt it before you did.. were you able to feel it after??
I honestly can NOT feel the "lump" she was referring to. I have tried standing up, laying down, in the shower, clothed, unclothed..LOL??? TMI but I have dense tissue and that's all I feel. I guess that could be what she was referring to.
When she felt it in the apt, she put my hand there to feel and I told her I couldn't feel it but that was it....
grapefruit / 4418 posts
@Ajsmommy: mine was very obvious To me, but it was also right on the surface. I didn't have to really press down firmly to feel it like they do during an exam.
pomegranate / 3565 posts
@Ajsmommy: Mine was obvious. It was close to the surface. I felt it first. But the OB could feel it right away.
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
@Ajsmommy: Mine is obvious. It felt about the size of a quarter. ... but it's just tissue.
pomegranate / 3355 posts
@catomd00: @Mamasig: @BabyBoecksMom: thanks guys.... I guess i'll just have to wait until next week at my mammogram
pomegranate / 3355 posts
Just wanted to stop back to update real quick...
Had mammogram yesterday afternoon. The tech couldn't feel any "lump" either, which honestly made me feel good b/c I haven't been able to feel it this entire time. She did two views and then sent me to wait. Came back and did a third view which was more squished but not painful.
Then I went back to wait. I was then told that I had an ultrasound in 30 mins (I hadn't known that) but apparently when the dr refers for a "lump" they automatically do both. So I wanted until I was taken for the ultrasound.
The tech asked where the lump was and I told her the area of question but told her that I had never really felt anything and no lump. She also didn't feel a lump! Again I felt better b/c this all means I didn't miss a lump on myself!
She did the ultrasound and no lump or issue was found. Just some dense tissue, which I've always had and always have known I had.....
So I was released with no need to follow up or anything. All clear
Thanks so much ladies for all of your comments, you really helped me not be nervous
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