Hi all,

I'm 23 and waiting for my referral appointment to the the hospital. 1 month ago I found a hard, oval shaped lump in my breast, on the inner side. I had a call from the nurse, who immediately brought me down to the doctors when I told her my mum had breast cancer under 50. She felt it and said it felt like a cyst and that it moves about, I can't manage to get it to move about at all though! I was on my period at the time and it was very painful and red on the skin above it. The nurse told me this sounded and felt like a cyst but told me to call back a month later to report what it's like. Well I still have it and today I have been referred to the breast clinic for testing! Although it isn't painful anymore and the redness has gone down a tad, the lump is still there, very hard, very easy to feel! 
 

I'm so nervous. I've been through this process before and it was just "lumpy tissue" showing up on the ultrasound. This time my referral hasn't been classed as urgent so I could be waiting up to 18 weeks for an appointment.

i keep trying to convince myself it's a cyst but how do I know that! I'm so, so worried. 
 

any advice would be greatly appreciated xxx