How many of you felt a mass prior to getting tested?

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  • melmcbee
    melmcbee Member Posts: 1,119
    edited February 2017

    I found my lump after i felt pain in breast.

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited February 2017

    And those of you whose tumors weren’t palpable but showed up on imaging? Don’t freak out if after a core needle biopsy you feel a small lump or swelling: it’s a small seroma. I panicked and thought my tumor had grown really fast between dx (day after biopsy) & surgery, but the radiologist who did my ultrasounds (diagnostic and pre-op seed-locator implantation) told me it was just a seroma, not growth so fast that it would be palpable.

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  • Hopfull2
    Hopfull2 Member Posts: 418
    edited February 2017

    hi hope floats, I found my lump on my own. But i had /have breast implants so I let it go for a couple of weeks before making an appt with my Dr thinking it was part of my implant. I got referred to have a Mammo and ultrasound and even then the Dr said he saw something but that's it was more than Thanlikely scar tissue from the implant. I'm the one that insisted on a biobsy. Glad I did. We need to be our own advocates sometimes.

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  • SummerAngel
    SummerAngel Member Posts: 1,006
    edited February 2017

    I felt a lump in my left breast. I could only feel it with my left arm down at my side, if I raised my arm I wasn't able to feel it. The doctors I saw had the same experience. No one felt the 1cm lump in my right breast, and it didn't show up on the diagnostic mammogram I had after finding the left-side lump. The right-side tumor was visible on MRI.

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  • Emily2008
    Emily2008 Member Posts: 605
    edited February 2017

    I felt them both times. The second time, 8 years later, was because I felt some pain in my breast. It turns out, the tumor was pressing on some nerves that had grown back even after my mastectomy.

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  • LM070917
    LM070917 Member Posts: 323
    edited February 2017

    I could feel a very hard long lump (almost like a rock underneath my skin). It didn't show on mammo and on ultra it only came up as a dark shadow. It hurt to lie on my front when trying to sleep, I knew something definitely wasn't right.

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  • Cowboy-Up
    Cowboy-Up Member Posts: 211
    edited February 2017

    I had no clue either and mine was not in the chest wall. It was 1.3 cm and bs couldn't feel it either. It was caught by a annual mammogram.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2017

    I could, but my GP thought it was just normal tissue. I persisted, got an US, and then an excisional biopsy that confirmed bc. My intuition was better than my GP's.

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  • AnnaK05
    AnnaK05 Member Posts: 11
    edited February 2017

    I am waiting for my diagnostic mammogram and US appointment in three days so I don't yet have a DX. But I felt a small rock like mass near my right nipple. Doc agreed it needed to be checked out

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  • Ronnie3001
    Ronnie3001 Member Posts: 169
    edited February 2017

    Hi Hope, I felt a mass in my left breast when I was 38 years old and had it checked out. I was told it was a fatty mass and not to worry. I was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 42, left breast where the original mass was...

    Ronnie

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  • Tresjoli2
    Tresjoli2 Member Posts: 868
    edited February 2017

    no lump no nothing. Blissfully unaware and just went for my baseline due to my age. Three weeks later I was having a port put in...

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  • Leslie2016
    Leslie2016 Member Posts: 316
    edited February 2017

    I felt the lump while in the shower. Wasn't really checking, just washing. Waited a few days, nope, still there. Went to GP. He didn't like it either. Scheduled mammo, u/s and biopsy if needed the next week, all in same day. Went....did all three. Mammo was clear. US saw lump, biopsy confirmed BC. I wasn't scheduled for another mammo for another year, but I'm very glad I felt it since the mammo didn't pick it up anyway.

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  • farmerlucy
    farmerlucy Member Posts: 3,985
    edited February 2017

    Never felt a thing. Two excisional biopsies over two years for nipple bleeding. First benign, second found ALH and ADH. Several mammos, two MRIs, regular ultrasounds and thermograms. Nothing. The only way it was found was in the pathology from a preventive mx.

    Three years after diagnosis I get the second MRI report and it had found that bugger deep in the breast and was either missed or passed on the subsequent ultrasound and biopsy.

    Never in my wildest dreams did I think all that screening could miss it, but it did. My breasts were extremely dense.

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  • Denise-G
    Denise-G Member Posts: 1,777
    edited February 2017

    I felt a small pea size lump that later my breast surgeon would call "the save your life lump". That sent me for testing to find a

    very large 6 cm tumor was underneath my large breast almost on the chest wall. I could not feel it even

    though I did regular breast exams. The pea-size lump turned out to be trapped fluid because my ducts were so badly blocked.

    I thank God every day that lump appeared literally out of nowhere!


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  • Jess5377
    Jess5377 Member Posts: 8
    edited February 2017

    Hi hope, this is my story. Although I'm young, I'm still worried. I agree that hearing other stories is calming. It gives me a better idea of what to expect. My biopsy is scheduled for Wednesday morning.imageimage

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  • Cowboy-Up
    Cowboy-Up Member Posts: 211
    edited February 2017

    I did not feel a mass. Mammogram caught mine.

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