Hematoma Probably?

Hi ladawn,

"Bumping" your post so that it gets back into Active Topics in the hopes someone can weigh in with their experiences.

Can anyone help?

--The Mods

"Do you have a young child or animal?"

Holding a kicking baby with heavy shoes, and a large dog jumping up to great you with paws to the breast, are actually two of the more common causes of incidental trauma that people usually don't remember.

Breasts are easy to bruise and apparently lumps are always regarded with suspicion by radiologists even if you know for sure what happened. At least that was my experience when I turned up for my first post-treatment mammogram with a big old lump in the same breast that had had cancer in it. I knew what had happened -- a couple of weeks earlier, my horse got a little too close to me when I was leading her from point A to point B. She stepped on the edge of my right boot, which momentarily nailed my right foot to the ground and prevented it from going forward. Since the rest of me didn't get the memo in time to stop my forward momentum, I went down, landing on my unfortunate breast. It was no big deal and I scrambled up and told Rosie (the horse) to watch where she put her hooves. I knew I would have some explaining to do when I showed up for my mammogram because some of the surface bruising was still visible, but I thought since I knew exactly what had happened, that would be the end of it. Nope. I had to have the ultrasound and the follow-up ultrasound weeks later. And I'm someone who knows what happened! The lesson here, I guess, is that it is appropriate to treat a lump in a breast cautiously even if it is probably just a hematoma. And unfortunately, even a pretty minor injury -- including one that you might not remember -- can result in a hematoma.

Good luck, ladawn. Here's hoping it's completely benign.

Trish