How many of you actually had a palpable lump?

Hi.  Not fully diagnosed yet but so far they think it's ILC.  I had a mammo.  I had asked the tech to make sure they check the L breast good because I have a newer inverted nipple and dimpling.  Also a harder area like a swelling.  But it came back benign.  Then I went to a dermatologist with a growth on my thigh and that was diagnosed as malignant carcinoma.  So I go to an Oncologist and he tells me yes, it's from the breast.  On further discussion and symptoms he thinks it's ILC, but I'm waiting for the PET scan.

So my breast would have never been diagnosed without that lump on my thigh.  And that growth is flat and thick and has a round area in the middle and starting to make more of a star shape

I could feel a hardened area for sure. I was tipped off by an inverting nipple and pretty big indent.

Mine felt kinda like a lump, but not 100% like a lump. To me it was more like a thickened, hard area on the breast. I am still in shock over how the doctors could NOT feel that, it was easily feelable. My guess is probably because of my young age they thought it was just dense breast tissue, argh. Both of my breasts had that feeling to it, but it was much worse in the right breast. My "lump" was also painful as well. Mine was more of a dull ache though that happened every now and again. I sometimes would get bee like stings in the breasts and nipples, but it wasn't an all the time occurrence. Both of my nipples changed. I never got the inverted nipple, but I had the aroleas change. They began to get puffy and I noticed under the both of them that there was indentation/dimpling. The indentation was more prominent in the left breast. My left breast was always smaller than my right breast, but I began to notice that my breast was smaller than usual. My right breast was the complete opposite and actually grew larger! The changes were obviously noticeable since I am smaller chested. I was a 32C

I am 40 years old and felt the lump myself one day. It seemed to have appeared overnight. Hard and not tender to the touch at all. As the weeks have gone by, my nipple has retracted. I have surgery next week and am looking forward to being cancer free soon.

I didn’t have a lump. My skin felt “wrong” & was red. It took over 6 months before they diagnosed me & that only happened because I was persistent with them. After the 1st cycle of chemo a 3cm lump appeared under my arm & 2 masses became obvious in my breast (12cm & 9cm). I completed my final chemo last week & the 2 large masses have gone! And the lump under my arm is now below 1cm. Onc says I’ve had a “complete response to chemo”. Now waiting for my mastectomy date. I transferred my treatment from U.K. to Spain after chemo cycle 5. My Spanish onc has looked at my scans etc from U.K. & can’t understand why I wasn’t diagnosed months earlier. I’m very lucky it doesn’t seem to have metastasised. I have loads of confidence in the Spanish team to look after & cure me - more do than the U.K. 

No lump. I actually had a breast exam with my GP the day before my mammogram. Obviously he felt nothing. I’m 37 and was only being sent for a mammogram because I requested it after my sister was diagnosed with stage 4 in June. Her Genetic Counselor suggested I get a mammogram just encase along with our other sister.

3 months exactly from the date my sister was diagnosed, I was diagnosed.

I often feel for it and think I may feel it but really not sure.