What did your lump feel like??

Hi,

I have never hae fiberoadenomas and honestly don't know what they are.  I can't say that I had a mass knot as I called it, very bumpy mass.  It was tender to touch which I was told cancer is not painful.  I was diagnosed several times by a more than one person as having clogged duct.  It didn't seem to sit 100% with me so each time I went in I would ask again and was told it was clogged ducts.  Then I found a second lump.  This was classical BC.  Small pea sized lump that felt flat to me (the sites say sharp edges) and no pain and in the chest wall.  They took this seriously.  In my core biopsy I learned the first lump had been in-situ BC the whole time allowing 3 years to pass. The second lump grew and this one was invasive.  I too am young and they said I am sure it is nothing 9-10 times it is benign.

 Point being both lumps were very different in shape and I learned a big lesson.  Demand the extra tests.  I would rather have an unnecessary negative than to end up like me finding out they are wrong.  If they are giving you issues I would say you would like it in writing that they are unwilling to give you the test.   I have heard several times on here there are false negatives on tests and I would bring that up especially since younger woman's breast are harder to read.  They told me due to being dense and I said whose breasts are you talking about I have 3 kids..lol  If you have the tests it will also help relieve you.  I don't want to scare you about the tests but rather it may help you get the tests you are wanting.  

I am hoping you are among the lucky and this is a false alarm   If you have several bumps my doctor told me draw a diagram and name them.  He said it sounds crazy but is the only way you will remember to monitor their size.. 

My lump was more like a thickening, it extended from my inner aerola of my rt breast to the side.  You could take your finger and slide it over my breast and feel it, it was very superficial.  It felt to me like a small green bean (I know weird, but it was slender and about 1inch long ( I don't know the exact measurement) and it did not show up on mammogram, ultrasound, even though everyone could feel it.  Again they used the "dense breast" theory.  I insisted it be removed and even during the procedure the doc said it didn't look like cancer...thought maybe a clogged duct.  It came out, looking like a firm yellow/tan green bean.   It was DCIS.  My point, be your own patient advocate.  I am 39, thin, excercise, healthy, and never been sick before.  I didn't care if I had to pay for it myself or not, I wanted it out. And it was cancer.  Don't let them tell you to wait.  Yours is probably benign, most are, but it's better to be safe and know than to wonder and find out later that you could have caught it before it progressed.  Good luck and keep us posted.

Hi, I have had a lump in my right breast for a little over a month now.  At first I thought that it was either a hidden hair or a pimple but couldn't find anything looking like that.  It didn't get any better with warm compresses or time.  After about 3 weeks, I went to a PA in my gyno office.  She gave me antibiotics to take hoping it was an abcess and said she hoped that it would just go away.  Took all the meds, didn't go away.  Had a return visit and she was dissappointed (as was I) that it didn't just go away.  She examined it again and said that she really thought that it was a sebaccous cyst.  She talked to doc and said that I should have an US done (I had a normal mamo in April).  She said not to loose any sleep over it that she was not worried.  Went for US, I have NO insurance and left without US but info on places that may be able to help me.  Checked on one place and they can't help me.  What are any thoughts out there from those of you that have had lumps?  I am postmenopausal.