Mammogram tomorrow and feeling silly

[Dotty2019]

I found a lump in my breast.
Went to GP and she felt it too and booked appointment for a mammogram, which is tomorrow.
I keep feeling and cannot find the lump.
Can lumps just disappear like that? If the GP hadn't have felt it then I would have thought that I imagined it, but it was there.
Also feel kind of silly now taking up an appointment if there isn't anything there.

Wishing you all the best OP

Thanks everyone for your experiences. My first mammogram on Thursday.

Op I can't find the lump again either. GP felt it though. I even asked the receptionist if I had had a two week referral as I was beginning to think it was a figment of my imagination.

Hi everyone
Just thought I would update. I found the mammogram uncomfortable but not painful. Was over very quickly. Now have to wait for the results.

Hope you don't have to wait long. Was it not a one stop shop clinic where you get the result quickly?

No they said 3-4 weeks

Someone else with more knowledge may be able to advise you here but that's a very long wait to find out. I was referred under the two week referral scheme and got the results at the clinic. X

That is a long time. I know have annual but routine mammograms and always hear within a fortnight.

Are you in the UK OP?

When I had a lump, I was referred within 2 weeks. I had an ultrasound at the breast clinic, and the breast surgeon said he could tell from that that it wasn't a cyst. So I had to come back the following week for a mammogram and ultrasound/biopsy. I then got results of that about a week later. Mine did turn out the be cancer, but it was all treated with surgery/chemo/radio and fingers crossed I'm OK now.

If you have a palpable lump, then Im not sure what the point of just a mammogram is. I thought that mammograms were to detect lumps (sometimes they are in places that cannot be felt) and then ultrasounds and biopsies are to determine the nature of the lump?

But I know that breast clinics operate differently throughout the UK.