Found lump

Thanks for coming across Webby81 

This is the scariest period, when you don’t know what it is and naturally fear the worst. It must also be bringing back those memories of your mum. Do you have a date for the breast clinic? Do update this when you know more. 

Hi , not had an appointment through yet it’s a week tomorrow I saw someone about it so I’m hoping it will be soon . I just think it will help if I can talk to others who have any similar symptoms and how they felt etc as I feel so alone as not told my boys anything yet if family only hubby . 

Hi, it's always a worrying time waiting, for an appointment or results.  Maybe hang on to the fact that it could be something totally unrelated and try not to overthink things. I find the “what if” questions to be natural but unproductive.  Try keeping yourself busy and distracted and good luck with the appointment. Best wishes 

Thank you ️ it’s just so hard because all I’ve been through with my mom even though it was a different cancer xx

Hi Webby81 and welcome to the forum. Sorry you find yourself here. I hope your lump turns out to be benign, if not this is a great place for support and shared experiences. 
I thought I’d share mine as there are some similarities, although I’m now much older (67).

At around your age I found a lump and had it investigated. I thought immediately that it would be cancer, as like you I’d lost my mum (at 53) to cancer. It felt just too likely, especially as she would have found her breast lump in her late 40s, as I was then. I was completely terrified. It took many clinic visits and the removal of the lump to know finally that it was benign (fibroadenoma). Things happened more slowly then, no ‘one stop shops’. In my early 50s I found lumps in the other breast which thankfully were just cysts. Then at age 59 I found the lump that was cancer. At the clinic, after mammogram, ultrasound and biopsies, I was told there and then that it looked very much like cancer. I had a lumpectomy, radiotherapy and 7 years of hormone therapy, and am now nearly 8 years of ‘no evidence of disease’. A very different scenario from my mother’s. Treatments have moved on hugely.  
Keep posting and updating us, this is the ideal place to share worries and anxieties that can be difficult to express to friends and family. Sending love and a big virtual hug, HFxx

Thankyou so much for replying I just have so much to deal with I’m trying to put all this to the back of my mind but that anxiety is still there . I’m so tired all the time too this is why I wonder if I’m possibly going through the change . It helps to hear other people experiences so thank you xx 

take care  

Hi Webby81 

I was 46 when I found a lump in my armpit/top of my breast two years ago. This turned out to be nothing to worry about (something called PASH) but when examined at the clinic something was found in my other breast. It’s worrying, but you’ve absolutely done the right thing by getting it checked out. As shown by the one I went for, and a previous cyst checked at the clinic years ago, not all lumps are cancer, and even if it is then there are treatments available.

I had a lumpectomy, radiotherapy and am now taking tamoxifen for five years. Thanks to the treatments I have had there is no evidence of any cancer and I am happy and healthy. 

Best of luck at the clinic and we are all here to support, share experiences and answer any questions you have. x