4 weeks postpartum- breast lump.

Hi all,

I am 31 and I give birth to twins 4 weeks ago this coming Friday. I'm not breastfeeding and found a lump in my left breast on the lower quadrant. It's immobile, not painful and feels like a pea. 
 

I have been referred by my doctor to the breast clinic which I am still awaiting an appointment, but obviously my mind is going into over drive. 
 

I hope to god it's just a cyst, but from looking online (I know, silly me) it is suggesting that immobile, Painless, hard lumps are common signs of cancer where as a cyst is mobile. I know it's not a blocked milk duct. 
 

I have a history of breast cancer in my family (luckily we don't have BRCA gene). I have been to the breast clinic several times before, but this time it's a proper pea like lump. 
 

Has anyone experienced this or know of anyone who has? I'm a young mother to 3 young children and I'm worried. I was checked at the breast clinic on 30/01 this year, so if it is anything hopefully caught early, but with all the hormones that have been surging through my body for the last 9 months it worries me it could have developed into something. 
 

Thank you :) 

  • Hi there ...

    Firstly nothing anyone says will not make it easy ... but getting things in perspective is the key .. over the years I had 5 call backs for lumps in breast ... one was hard , non moving like a flat pebble ... one was movable and pea shaped .. two was from mamorgram ... all my first 4 were fine.... though I'd convinced my self otherwise ... and did the " what ifs" couldn't sleep, the worse was the thought of the kids ...

    The odds ... last time l looked was 8 out of ten are benign... if I'd have known that I'm sure I'd have looked at it more logically... looking back the worse time is the wait to find out ... sadly no easy way round it ..

    I did get another lump in 2017 ... and that was a grade 3 breast cancer... I had a masectomy in July that year .. and again thought the worse ... but here I am nearly 5 years latter and doing o.k .. my untie and cousin had breast cancer after me .. and my friends daughter .. wer all still here ...

    We hear the sad stories and they are the ones we hear mostly ... so take heart .. esp after giving birth our boobs do get lumpy, I got mastitis a few weeks after my last son .. so the odds are on your side .. and if it is, there's lots of treatment that's come a long way ... got everything crossed for you .. but be kind to yourself... it's so normal to feel and think like your doing ... hold on in there ... Chrissie x