Please anyone have any input?

Take a painkiller BEFORE the biopsy and make sure they give you lots of local anaesthetic.......

Sorry that you haven't been getting more responses to your other posts. 

If you are nervous about the biopsy, then certainly it's a good idea to ask your PCP for something to help calm your nerves for the procedure.

About the questions about trauma, these were asked because there are all sorts of lumps that can form because of trauma to the breast. Trauma could be something like surgery to the breast, but trauma could also be something that you don't even remember - for example maybe you leaned against something and your breast got a good poke and you never thought anything of it so you don't remember.  

Is it normal to have a cyst and lesion next to each other?  That's an impossible question. There are so many different configurations of what might be going on in someone's breast. Women like me who have fibrocystic breast have lumps and bumps and thickening and cysts all over. Have you had an ultrasound or mammogram before?  If this is the first one you've ever had, it could be that one of the lumps has been there for a long time - the solid mass might be a harmless fibroadenoma and maybe it's been there for 10 years - and maybe the cyst just developed and that's what you felt.  That could be a perfectly normal situation.  

As for whether the lump feels mobile or not, my advice is to not try to figure that out.  I had two fibroadenomas when I was in my teens/early twenties and to me they felt immobile but that doesn't mean that this is how they would have felt to a breast surgeon.  And the mobile vs. immobile thing is just one general factor that's sometimes true about benign vs. malignant masses, and sometimes is untrue. 

What it comes down to is that you cannot diagnose yourself, and you will drive yourself crazy if you try to. It's impossible to know what's going on, or to speculate. Most biopsies - 80% - turn out to be benign, so hang on to that.  

Good luck with the biopsy. Hopefully the results will be benign!

kthopkt--driving yourself crazy?  Totally understandable!  Best of luck; so many women here are thinking about you and send lots of support through cyber space.

kthopkt, I had a core biopsy last week and I also have extremely dense breast tissue and it was not painful at all. They should numb you with lidocane and it works like a miracle! I thought I had "C"....I mean I am BRCA +, very strong history on both sides of my family & my mom is currently batteling Stage IV (2nd reoccurange). she and her mom were both diagnosed in there 40's and I am 48. This was the first time they ever saw anything, it was my first complex cycst & my first biopsy and everything was fine. The waiting & wondering is the worst part not to mention all the darn doctors appointments! Take a deep breath & do whatever it takes to distract yourself (I choose work & house cleaning). I hope you have a good friend that you can talk to....it really helps. Good luck and be strong.

Hi kthopkt--Hoping that this won't be too painful for you.  Here's a crazy thought, since its an ultrasound-guided biopsy, would they let you listen to music during the procedure since they can't use much local anesthesia?  The other thing is, they can give some, and if it is still painful, give more.  I actually had an open surgical breast biopsy (lumpectomy) under local anesthesia (17 years ago).  As they got closer to the area of concern, or if I felt something (which I most certainly did), they gave more injections.  I felt a lot of tugging and some discomfort.  I don't think I'd go through that again, and I had three subsequent surgical biopsies with that same surgeon--all in the operating room with the standard sedation given for those procedures.  Best of luck, and get the anxiety meds beforehand.  Sounds like you need it under the circumstances.

Mine used a #8 needle for my core biopsy which is pretty big and took 5 cores. I only felt two of them because they did not use enough lidocaine and so when I jumped they felt really bad. But, as Carpe said, it was over in an instant. It smarts a little but they can give you pain meds like percocet for afterward when you get home. Hugs and it will be OK!