Need opinions .

Mamabear2386

I am a 33 yr old with new breast lump . In april I felt a new breast lump at 12 oclock. It feels attached to my skin not very mobile, pea size dont think it grew if it has not by much does not hurt. This Tuesday went to radiology. The dr examined the area first thing he said was I lost breast tissue in that area of where I feel the lump. . Is that normal for age ? I asked the dr but acted if he dident hear me . Also dr not feel anything. But he did have me do ultrasound . When I did ultrasound I did see technician measuring something then walked out to get dr. The radiologist came in did sonogram and then walked out . The technician told me to get dress and I was going to speak to the dr . When I spoke to dr he told me it looked the normal tissue but wants me to come back in 3 months to see any changes . Then told me if the lump grew or if I have any breast changes I should call office to make appt sooner . Is this normal? Has this happened to anyone else where u felt something and the dr thinks its normal breast tissue but dr wants to keep an eye on it ? Or the dr saw something and dosent want to say anything g to next visit to confirm what it is ? A little puzzled and worried because I do have two small children and have family history of breast cancer . Any advice would be appreciated.

WC3

"Normal tissue" Yeah, that's what I was told after a mammogram and ultrasound when I found a small lump that hadn't been there before. Two years later I discovered it was actually cancer.

I wish they had it biopsied it way back then, or at least done an MRI. It would have saved my breasts, fertility, and maybe more.

Elephant

With a family history of breast cancer, it may be a good idea to get a second opinion.

Mamabear2386

Wc3 so sorry for what you went through . Did you have a different symptom in the breast 2yrs later. Or did they see a change on mammo and sonogram of that area?? When I asked radiologist about biopsy he gave me a look and told me that there was nothing to biopsy and he dident want to biopsy anything if it wasent neccessary. My whole thing is if it's just normal breast tissue why do I need to go back in 3 months? Sometimes I feel that drs dont take young patients seriously.

WC3

Mamabear2386:

I looked down one day in the shower and noticed a contour. I had a brief moment where I wondered if it always looked like that. A few days later I decided that no, it didn't always look like that, but I thought that it was just gravity + age + hormones. I forgot about it for about a week and then one night the internet serendipitously brought me to photos of fungating masses and skin mets and I got freaked out and the next day, made an appointment with my doctor just to be on the safe side.

The doctor told me it should come out even if it was benign, due to the size, but he ordered another diagnostic mammogram. The soonest appointment I could get was a morning appointment at a place an hour away on the bus in traffic and I woke up that morning extremely tired, thinking it was probably normal breast tissue like they said two years ago, and part of my mind had decided to cancel the appointment and go back to sleep. But then I started thinking that I should just go and get it done with since I already had the appointment, and if I got freaked out about it again it would be at 6pm on a Friday night. So I literally jumped out of bed at the last minute and just barely caught the bus.

I walked in to the imaging place still thinking it was normal breast tissue and I thought that right up until it showed up on the ultrasound screen.

Had I not happened upon those images of fungating masses and skin mets that night, or decided to go back to sleep that day instead, bad would have been a lot worse. It had a 1 to 2 month size doubling time and was just about to invade my skin so I would have possibly ended up like the people in those photos had I waited another month.