Found a lump

[whostoletheeyeoutyourteddybear]

Hi all,

Last night I rolled over in bed and felt this elongated egg shaped hard, painless lump in my right breast. At the top above the nipple. I can't see it, just feel it. I never noticed before as I usually wear a sports bra to bed as I have quite large breasts. Also, I hate touching my breasts. I called NHS 24 (Scotland) as today is a Bank Holiday and GP practices are closed. They were lovely and gave me an urgent referral for tomorrow morning but said I can attend one stop breast clinic today of I mentally can't wait.
Now, my aunt (mum's cousin) had breast cancer at my age (42) and had a double mastectomy, my gran (mum's mum)had womb cancer in her 30s and died years later of a different cancer. There's a lot of other cancers all from my mum's side of the family which has subsequentlybeen the cause of death of 6 family members. My mum died ar 53 suddenly as did my brother at 40 (not cancer related) but I fear if they lived longer there would have been a cancer of sort.
I was upset last night but feel okay today. I'm a single parent with a 17 year old son 👨‍🦰 my 2 dogs 🐕 🐕and cat 🐈. I've a really supportive workplace so not worried about that. Think I've gone off on a tangent. Anyway, should I be worried? Could it just be hormone fluctuations?
Also, I told one of my friends and she just said 'oh dear! However, my other friend is extremely supportive of hiw I'm feeling. I never ask for help as I'm rather strong, active and independent and love life...so this is odd for me. Sorry for the book 📖 lol. TiA.

You're doing exactly the right thing in getting it checked ASAP.

I know how worrying it is, especially when there is history in your family, the times I've been at the breast clinic there is always a poster up saying something like 8 or 9 times out of 10 lumps are nothing to worry about, there are many other things it could be and if it is bad news treatments have moved on so much.

I have found the staff to be fantastic in these clinics, both times mine were benign, but they are efficient and kind.