Lump in Breast - Sacramento,CA

Mine ended up being "dense breast tissue due to monthly hormonal changes". It happens almost every month now.

I think your doctor was just doing her job, I guess she really is a good one! Whenever you find anything that can either be one thing or another they have to check and be sure.... and she is doing just that. In case it could be something "more" she is making sure to do things in a timely manner, which in most cases marks a big big difference.

Try (very difficult) not to worry and just follow the steps that you need to make sure you are fine. Do not leave things for "later" is easy to get caught up with a million things and do not care proper care of yourself. So just go to the appointment already made, do not overthink it and keep going!

Hope and am sure you will be completely ok, I have had two cysts removed from my breasts years ago.

Keep us posted,
M.

Sassy, I don't know the reasons for this, but if I were you, I'd just enjoy your day today and try not to worry about it. Do something fun, relaxing. Tomorrow, eat a good breakfast/lunch and then go see her. She will tell you whatever it is that she is going to tell you. I hope she shows you the scans, explains the cyst and tells you that everything is going to be okay.

Regardless, worrying about it today will not change tomorrow's outcome. Go find some peace today!

Hugs!
Dawn

Your doctor was doing her job in setting up the appointment for you. Most times women WANT to get an appointment as soon as possible to alleviate any worry. In spite of statistics being in your favor of a lump with pain being "just a benign cyst" do you really want to play the odds? If it's cancer, it can progress pretty quickly. There's no reason to wait but every reason to move on it quickly and confirm that it's benign.

It sounds like you have a great doctor. She's staying on top of things.

Take a deep breath and try to relax. Your doctor sounds very proactive, which is GREAT! My old OB used to do this for me, I wish my new one did the same. She's just looking out for you aka her job. I had a breast lump scare a long time ago and it was a fibroadenoma (non-cancerous/benign mass). It ended up resolving on it's own after several months. It's true with most that malignant growths do not usually cause pain and/or sensitivity. Hang in there!

A few weeks back (might be a couple months now, not too sure...) I felt a lump in my left breast. I went to the doctor and got the same spiel, "Don't worry about it...", "Let's do a mammo to be sure..." etc.

They set up the appointment for two hours later.

I have a growth on my chest wall. The three doctors who looked at it all agreed, it's a growth that is never cancerous, but does need to be watched. I will have a mammo every year now just to make sure it doesn't get bigger. (And yes, it was painful, the lump, not the mammo.)

Take a deep breath. The timing of the mammo means nothing more than that's when they could get you in. Look at it like this: if you do the mammo now, then you have a great baseline so if you ever find something again, they know what your breasts are supposed to look like.

*hugs*

Try not to worry, even though she may truly believe it’s nothing to worry about, it’s still a lump and should be checked right.
Good luck to you!

You have received good responses. I had a tender spot on my breast for a couple of weeks and called my doctor. I went in to see him about two weeks later and the spot had stopped being tender and turned hard. A mammogram was ordered but both doctor and I said it should have been yesterday. Two days later I went in for a needle biopsy and later for surgery to remove the lump. My lump was cancerous but it was caught at the earliest stage and all I had to do was radiation and pills for five years.

So do go in and get it checked and remember you can't worry about what if until you know what it is.

I trust that all will go well and that it will be nothing.

The other S.

maybe she called for you cause she knows she can get you an appointment sooner and given the medical issues she wants to get to it now and not next week or two weeks or a month from now, like it sometimes takes to get a mammo appt. I started having lumpy breasts in my early twenties. I kept having pain and felt a lump the size of a marble. I had to have all kinds of weird tests, my favorite being the water table that i had to lay on with my boobs hanging down into this tank of water. turns out i just have lumpy boobs. the cysts hurt and get enlarged when i drink to much caffeine. some people are just lumpy and you may be one of them! try not to worry!

I found a painful lump the same way right before Christmas 3 years ago. My doctor assured me nothing serious was wrong, but that I needed to be more closely looked at. I had an ultrasound done of the area and was told that it was a fibroadenoma. Nothing serious, but they suggested removal and with the removal a biopsy just to make completely sure nothing serious was going on. I had it removed a few weeks later and the biopsy came back negative for cancer.
Your doctor most likely wants to go over the results with you and discuss what to do from here. In my case, I could have continued with it and taken the chance that it would get larger, more inflamed/painful, or just continue to be bothersome. I chose to remove it because I wanted to make sure cancer was definitely ruled out. Cancer runs rampant in my family history and I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I'm sure you have nothing to worry about and worrying does nothing to improve your life anyway, so why do it!? Enjoy the rest of your day and blessings to you for a healthy appt. tomorrow! Take care!

My mom went for a second mamogram and they said 80% of the time the lumps are benign or a cyst. The odds are in your favor.

Had this happen twice, both times it was just a cyst.

Usually cysts are round and smooth. Cancers tend to be hard and rough.

Your doc probably called as part of their procedure - not because she was alarmed.

I'm sure you'll do fine. They usually will read the mammo while you are there for these types of things to put your mind at ease.