Two New Lumps - 6 years after initial diagnosis

I can't believe I am here again. I found 2 hard lumps by accident on my reconstructed breast (cancer side). They are both above my masectomy scar - 1" and 2" above. Both lumps are hard. One feels like it is attached attached to the breast implant.

I don't feel good about this. The lumps feel very similar to last time immovable, hard, pea sized

I found the lump a week ago. I have my ultrasound and biopsy tomorrow morning at 7:30am. I feel so sick with dread.

I am hoping the radiologist can give me a sense of what it is. Last time my lumps were rated as BIRAD 4C and they gave it to me straight that they were pretty sure it was cancer.

I finished my 5 years of tamoxifen and zoladex this summer. Could this have caused me to relapse? I was worried about stopping the medication.

I also found these lumps exactly 6 years after I found my last lumps. Within the same week in December. That's really freaking me out.

Anyways, I just wanted to surround myself with you ladies - there is no one else who knows what this feels like. Anyone else waiting?

hello. I’m here for support too. I haven’t gone through a recurrence. But I have a screening mri next week. Hoping all is ok. I get screenings every 6 mo. (Treatment).

Keep us posted on how your appt goes. Sending a hug your way.

I have not undergone a recurrence either thought want to send support and well wishes for good results. I really hear your genuine concern though....

waiting-to-exhale - I'm so sorry you are going through all this stress right before Christmas. I'm really, REALLY happy to read that they decided to take a biopsy - because I dodged a bullet after feeling a small bb or pea sized lump that the docs thought would just be fat necrosis.....

I felt a small, hard lump in my mastectomy scar, just 14 months after my surgery and recon. My SO said she really didn't think it would be anything other than fat necrosis, but sent me for an u/s and mammo. The radiologist labelled the lump a BIRADS 3 and recommended I return for imaging in 6 months to see if it changed. I was not comfortable with that recommendation and requested a biopsy (which actually turned out to be an excisional biopsy/lumpectomy). Thank goodness I did, because not only was it an IDC recurrence that had quickly grown (probably b/c I had a positive anterior margin of DCIS), if I had have waited, I would have been stuck in all the medical slowdowns/shutdowns due to the Covid outbreak that hit about a month after my surgery!!!

Sending you well wishes and I hope you hear results soon. Fingers crossed it is B9!

Keep us posted. Hoping it is b9. Waiting is the worst. We are here though if you want to chat. Sending a hug your way.

I agree with what you said waiting to....!! Advocating for ourselves.......is soooo important. I was being pretty much pushed into radiation and taking meds. I asked them why when there was little in the way of trials showing it would benefit me grately. I said no and my MO said he would support my decision. So far so good. But I don't understand why they don't just give the facts and then let people make decisions instead of pushing. The nurses were horrible at my MO's office when they would talk to me on the phone....condescending...especially one or two of them. That isn't what we need when we have cancer. We need support. So I didn't go back, he semi retired I think. And I chose a new MO and am happy with my new MO, very supportive and office nurse too. It is sad there are people in the cancer field who aren't supportive....but advocating is soooo important you are right!!

Yay!!!

What a relief