Hi ladies, I'm very new to all of this and had a few questions... thought this was the best place to start! I am 44 and I have a 'lump' in the upper outer quadrant of my left breast, next to my armpit, almost going in to my armpit. There feels like lots of bits to it. I don't feel anything like that in the other breast.
The lump I am feeling feels hard, but squishy if that makes sense. It's movable, I think, and has a bumpy surface. I wouldn't say it is smooth and round. It is completely painless, however I have the occasional intermittent dull ache which appears, unlike the tenderness before my period.
Two years ago I had this same lump, only smaller. So whatever it is it's been there a while. My doctor was able to feel the lump and referred me. The breast clinic wasn't a great experience. The consultant couldn't even feel the lump and I only had the one breast scanned plus I had a mammo... nothing was seen. They were very dismissive and said I was a healthy woman. That was it.
My mum has had breast cancer three times and is now being treated for stage 4.
I know the 'movable, not rock hard, lumps suggest benign, so my questions are, has anyone had a squishy, movable lump that turned out to be a cancer diagnosis.
And also did anyone have a lump that had been there for a while, or had not been picked up on either mammogram or ultrasound.
I am reluctant to go to the doctor now, my health centre isn't great and I am thinking it's probably only fatty breast tissue anyway if nothing was seen when I was screened.
Sorry for the long message! X
