What did your breast lump feel like?

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I'm waiting anxiously for a lump to be checked but at the same time I feel as though it possibly cannot be sinister due to what shape/feel is like.

May I ask what your 'lump' felt like?

Mine isn't round, it feels more like a thickening of tissue inside, upper quadrant.

But I breastfeed my nearly 3 year old, so GP didn't seem concerned at all, gave me antibiotics which haven't done anything and lump still there. It doesn't hurt at all.

But it's not 'small' like a pea or lemon pip as I have been told it would be if it were cancer. It's just a mass of thick tissue.

I don't want to google. But I guess I'm curious.

Thank you x

Hello, mine was sort of oval in shape. I could clearly distingush it from the the rest of my breast tissu3. I was breastfeeding too, zero pain or any symptoms was told that it was probably to do with breastfeeding. I'm really glad I got it checked as it was cancer such a shock. It's very rare though and I think something like 90% of lumps checked come back as nothing so I'm sure yours will be fine too. All the best.

I have two. One is round. The other is a dense shape both malignant. Currently having treatment and it is all going well. With good results so even if it is what you fear. Itll be ok

Thank you. Sorry to hear about your diagnosis.

GP was focused a lot on the fact I am breastfeeding and seems to think it's something to do with that. But I have had mastitis and blocked ducts numerous times and it's never felt the way the lump does now. It's just a thick, bumpy lump. Although I do think the thickness area is too large for it to potentially be sinister. It starts from just outside my areola, and perhaps carries on an inch and a half upwards towards armpit.

I did an outline of it. The whole oval is thick and the coloured circle is more thicker if that makes sense. Very bumpy.

Have you been referred to the breast clinic to be seen within 2 weeks? If not, ask for this to be done. I have not had breast cancer so have no lump info to share.

They wouldn't refer me when I went in, GP sent me away with antibiotics, said it's probably due to breastfeeding or because I was due on my period. I have private healthcare so I am waiting a call back to see if I can go to the local private breast clinic.

I had two very small lumps, no bigger than peas, which I couldn't feel and GP could only just find- he had to put my fingers on them to show me where they were. Even the doctor at the breast cancer clinic couldn't really feel them. But I had a line of thickened skin underneath that started to pull my breast in, and that was what prompted me to go to the GP.

OP go back to your GP and insist they refer you. It's outrageous they haven't! My GP gave me antibiotics and referred me at the same time.

You could tie yourself in knots wondering what it is. But the truth is everyone's body is different and everyone who's had cancer won't have had the exact same type of cancer. I did have breast cancer and believe me I know how scared you must feel. But please try to assure yourself most lumps aren't cancer. And most people diagnosed with breast cancer survive. I'm out the other side now and if it is that, you've every chance of getting through it too x

I had one large oval lump that I could hold in my palm and move about (6cm) and then, hiding behind it, a larger one attached to my ribcage. They're not all pea sized 🙄

Thank you. Will be sorting tomorrow as a priority. I can feel my lymph node I think in that armpit, not the other but I am really slim (BMI 18) so maybe I can just feel them because of that. Hard not to worry but at same time I don't feel like it's anything serious so I guess that's why I've been laid back etc.

Mine was about 5cms cubed like a walnut in texture rock hard and bumpy could move it only very slightly. Pain in breast. Skin dimpling. Pain in ribs. If lifted arm breast became quite misshapen and other breast very different. My first GP didn't refer, went back 4.5 months later, that GP said definitely cancer referred and it was - lobular breast cancer which grows as a spidersweb then forms a lump at end. Your age is on your side and most lumps aren't but that definitely needs checking out properly.

Hi OP

Our DIL recently went through a breast lump. We all felt it was to do with the recent birth of another DC of ours and DiL trying to breast feed.

Anyways, quick visit to GP - sent for urgent scan - had scan about a week later - got results soon after, all good

However, as others said, the gP needs to send you for a scan - see a different GP and tell them you are worried - nothing wrong in that and reassurance is a peace of mind

Good luck

I had a lump that if you cross-checked with Dr Google would suggest could well be benign, it wasn't. Comparing lumps is pointless really, they have different features depending on type. So yea, get it checked at a breast clinic.

I had a lump that didn't seem to be an entirely definitive shape, about 3cm diameter, at times I could detect a hard pea-shaped "centre". GP wasn't concerned, put it in as a non-urgent referral. I was still bf'g my youngest at the time. Mind you, he was 3 and a half so boobs were supposedly getting back to normal. Long story short, I got spooked and asked for an urgent private mammogram. Mammogram, ultrasound and biopsies took place about 10 days later. It was BC and I am approaching 8 year anniversary, all good now. Good luck and insist on an urgent mammogram Xxx.

Mine was more a thickening, I couldn't feel a lump as such. Also noticed my nipple pointing down slightly. Turned out to be multifocal lobular cancer. This was 8 years ago. None of us can diagnose you but you need to get it checked.

You absolutely must get this checked out. Request a scan/ biopsy. All lumps are different, but you need to know for sure what it is.

Best of luck 👍🌺

Thank you, I am sorting it out today and seeing if I can be seen privately without a referral from GP as have private healthcare x

I had the exact same as you op and was referred to breast clinic where they said it was nothing to worry about, just hormonal

I was the same as you ten years ago - although DD was only 6 weeks. I was sent away twice with the advice that it was a blocked duct or mastitis. My friend is a GP and she wasn't happy so suggested I go down to see the nurses at the breastfeeding clinic, who immediately saw things weren't right.
I had stage 3 cancer in both breasts.
10 years on, I'm still here.
Two of my GP friends have referred breastfeeding mothers to the breast clinic since then who've been diagnosed with cancer.
I'm not trying to scare you (9/10 lumps are benign) but it does happen!

Thank you. Yes the GP also mentioned it could be hormonal as I was due on my period but my period is over now and still there. It's definitely a new thing as I'm quite in tune with my breasts due to breastfeeding!

Hopefully it's a cyst or something; I am hoping I'll be seen this week if I'm going down the private route. The private hospital do breast clinic evenings on a Tuesday and Thursday x

Oh wow I'm sorry for that, that must have been really scary.

I keep touching the lump all the time trying to work it out but of course I have no idea what it is! I just know it's not been there before the last couple weeks. When I first felt it I thought blocked duct as I have had so many in my breastfeeding journey! But it never hurt, and it never went away or turned into mastitis which it usually would do.

My toddler also has said the milk isn't very good in that boob so I am thinking maybe it is a blocked duct but I won't know until I am seen!

Hi OP I'm just echoing everyone's advice to get this checked, pronto.
I hope it's nothing sinister, but you need specialist assessment.

Thank you. I will be sorted today I hope! X

Good luck!!

It's perhaps less concerning that you are due on your period. I discovered mine not long after my period, which is how I sussed it was different- I get very sore boobs anyway, sometimes day after ovulation for the next 2 weeks. It seemed to go smaller later in the month while waitingfor the clinic, but that fits in with it being ER positive.