Change in solid breast mass - what is it?

Hello everyone,

I told myself I wouldn't post here while I'm waiting to find out the status of a mass in my breast. I told myself "try not to worry until you know if it's even something to worry about it." But after holding it together all day, I can't help but post my story, maybe just for comfort or reassurance or truthful experiences of others.

I'ma 29 year old female.

In August 2017 I had a breast ultrasound to look at a painful palpable lump around the 7:00 spot on my right breast. The pain is a very sharp yet almost tender feeling. It hurts when I press on the lump and sometimes it will twinge when I'm just sitting there not even touching my breast. The pain first began in 2014, but I tried to rationalize that it was nothing. I'm sure I read online that pain usually wasn't cancer, so I tried to ignore it. It was 2015 or 2016 that I first found the tiny hard lump about the size of a split pea. I didn't go to the doctor at that time due to an intense fear of diseases and doctor, which I'm thankfully overcoming now. The painful lump feels really bad far there in my breast, like I have to push down really hard when lying on my back to really get a good feel of it with my finger, but it doesn't take much to cause the pain.

I finally saw a doctor about it in August 2017 and was sent for an ultrasound. This didn't give me a definitive answer. This is what the report said:

Grayscale sonographic

images show a circumscribed oval mass measuring 4 x 6 x 3 mm in size. There
is no overlying vascular flow.

IMPRESSION:Probably benign subcentimeter mass underlying the area of
palpable concern.

I was told by the tech that it was probably something "more like an adenoma" than cancer.

After I received the report, I also met with a breast surgeon who told me she really didn't think it was anything to worry about and that while we could do a biopsy, she thought the chances of it being something bad were so slim that she recommended I not scar my breast for nothing. I was told to come back in 6 months for a followup ultrasound, at which time they would remove the mass if it had changed at all.

I chose to trust the doctor and I haven't had the intense anxiety about it for the past 6 months, no pressing on the spot 100 times a day to check if it was still there or had changed like I had done before I first saw the doctor. I felt positive about it and could handle the pain as long as it wasn't anything dangerous.

I had the 6 month followup ultrasound and really wasn't worried about it at all. The pain was still there, and when I felt the lump last night it didn't feel any different to me. Today I was told that the mass now has a blood supply, so they're going to do a biopsy. I was so shocked that I couldn't even ask any questions, my brain couldn't process anything. The measurements on it today were 4mm x 5.8mm x 3.6mm, so it doesn't really sound like it's changed much in size, maybe a bit wider, unless they should rounded everything in the first report. I'm hoping that's a good sign. I'm so worried about the development of a blood supply. I've done nothing by research it online all day. I just wonder what else it could be to develop a blood supply that wasn't there before. I know some benign lesions have vascularity, but it would seem to me that if that was the case, the vascularity would have been present 6 months ago. I'm worried that the development of a vascular flow means it's something bad that has gotten even worse.

I'm waiting to be able to schedule the biopsy. There is a rule that if I haven't seen a breast surgeon in the past 3 months, I have to get an appointment with the surgeon before scheduling the biopsy, but it was just 5 months ago that I met with the surgeon, so they may waive it. I was just waiting for my phone to ring today so I can move closer to just finding this out, as terrifying as it is. They should call tomorrow and I was told if I can skip the appointment and just schedule the biopsy, I should be able to get it done in 3-5 days.

Anyway, anyone have a similar experience or any sort of experience with one of these 6 month followup sort of deals that resulted in a biopsy? I'm not looking for a diagnosis and I know every story and body is different, but guess I just want to not feel so alone.