How to tell if it’s a lump, or lumpy breast tissue?

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So I have found a lump. I check my breasts regularly, usually after a shower. About two weeks ago I noticed a harder area under my right breast, which on checking underneath felt like a sort of elongated oval lumpy area. It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t move and I can’t find a similar area on the other breast.

How do we know if it’s just lumpy tissue, or something more to worry about? I am 44, in the throes of peri menopause and have never felt anything resembling a lump in either breast before. Also to note I did have a red raised area on the outer right aside of the same breast, and the top sort of rubbed off in the shower and scabbed over. The scab is still there.

I am obviously going to book in with the GP to get it checked, but would appreciate any thoughts or experiences. Trying not to over think things but can’t help feeling concerned.

It could be so many things and you’re right to get it checked out. It could be linked to the sore part. I’ve been referred to the breast clinic twice, I’m 36, both times the lumps have been dense/lumpy, glandular tissue. One of the times the area was in the lower outer quadrant and it felt like a hard, oval shape, it was just dense tissue x

To reassure you a bit - but still get it checked - I felt my mum’s lump when she had breast cancer and it felt like a really hard frozen pea. When I had fatty tissue (that they said they could monitor or remove) it was like what you’re describing - more spongy than my mums lump but still more solid that what I was used to feeling.

Go and get it checked. This is not to scare you but to reassure you the quicker you go the quicker it can be dealt with IF it isn't just a cyst/fatty lump. Mine was cancerous (caught early, successfully treated) and the breast consultant who has experience feeling these lumps said she thought it would be nothing to worry about, 30 minutes later after a mammogram and an ultra sound she apologised and confirmed it was highly likely to be cancer (from shape on imaging.) All this is to say you can't tell a huge amount by feeling please go and get checked.

Go get it checked for sure.
i was diagnosed with breast cancer at 39 in dec last year, with my cancer grown inside my fibroadonanoma that had been there for 6 years + and always checked out ok on mammograms and ultrasounds.
My “lump” felt like ropey tissue but couldn’t feel the cancerous bit if you get me.
it could be nothing (which is more likely than it being anything untoward) but if it is something it’s best to find it early and get treated asap.

All the best xx

Get it checked. I’ve had three checked in last two years and one was cancerous but they all felt similar

Mine felt like lumpy tissue and was cancerous. I put off going gp as to me they felt 'lumpy' rather than an actual lump. Youre right to get checked. It did not feel anything like i expected a cancerous breast lump to feel like at all. It was mobile and squishy.

Get it checked by the GP at the earliest opportunity so that you can be booked in for a mammogram.
You will worry until you have it checked so just get on with it.

Chances are it's perimenopause-related but you can't assume it is.

Thank you for all the kind replies ❤️
I will be booking in at the GP on Monday. It has scared me as I have never felt anything remotely like a lump before. It is quite hard, strange shape, it actually feels bigger than originally thought.

I will update the post once I have some answers xx

I had exactly the same, the GP referred me to the breast clinic and they checked it.

It was a cyst which are very common.

Always best to get it checked.