r/doihavebreastcancer

After my very first mammogram and ultrasound (30 years old) they sat me down and said "you do not have cancer" Yay! Right? Except, he said "the lump you were worried about is fine. however, there is another thing that we saw that looks like a cyst. it's teeny tiny, smooth small and round, but it's gray. for that reason we are categorizing it as birads 3, so we will have you come back in 6 months to make sure it's what we think it is: benign"

I asked if they were SURE I didn't need to biopsy. he insisted he was confident that a biopsy was unnecessary and felt very confident that it's nothing. "we can poke you with needles if you really want, but I insist I truly trust you are 99% fine. I would tell the exact same thing to you if you were my closest family member"

But of course, my brain is spiraling. What if I'm the 1%? Does anyone else feel this way with a birads 3?

I know nothing is 100% certain but I really went into it hoping to get an absolute answer but I suppose I need to be okay with being 98% sure.

Is this just my dumb brain and anxiety/hypochondria? Can I really relax?

I’ve had this rash 7 days now on my boob, it hasn’t changed in texture or size I have no pain and it’s not itchy and no swelling. I’m on antibiotic and have been for 5 days still no change.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

I’m 47 and average weight.

Hi everyone. I posted this on r/breastcancer but took it down when I realised it wasn’t the appropriate sub and they sent me here.

I just wanted to reach out as I am a 32 year old woman who recently had a chest scan that found a 1.3cm solid lesion on my right breast. I haven’t been diagnosed but they are going to biopsy the lesion to confirm that it isn’t malignant. I can’t feel the lump but I do have large breasts and occasional pain on the right.

It’s early days and I honestly don’t think I’d be dealing with something this sinister at my age but I’ve heard it’s possible and of course, when you’re told there’s a lesion, your brain goes straight to worst case. I also recently had my sister in law and step-mum recover from breast cancer - both were diagnosed young (39 and 50).

After receiving the request for biopsy and mammogram, I’m quite scared this may become a reality. I’ve learned from the other sub Reddit that cancer doesn’t discriminate against age and it that it is becoming more common among young women. It’s frightening.

Anyway, I just wanted to share how I am feeling. Thank you for reading and sending my best to you if you’re currently dealing with something similar or dealing with breast cancer. 🩷

Does anyone have any similar experiences that didn’t turn out to be cancer? Last week I found a single small lump in my left breast. I thought it would be a cyst or something, but GP sent me for an ultrasound of the left breast. The report didn’t mention a birads score but they told me the results would take 3-4 weeks, and the next day I got a call from my GP that they wanted an urgent biopsy of multiple masses as well as bilateral mammogram and an ultrasound of the other breast.
I’m 38 with 3 kids and feeling terrified. What would the birads score be for something like this?

This is the text in the report:

The clinically palpable lump in the LEFT breast 3 o'clock position situated approximately 67mm corresponds to a 16 x 14 x 11mm irregular hypoechoic lesion with posterior acoustic shadowing. It is uncertain if this lesion is abutting or invading the adjacent pectoralis muscle.

Additional irregular hypoechoic lesions are noted which are as follows:

3 o'clock 64mm from the nipple measuring 7 x 6 x 4mm.
2 o'clock 83mm from the nipple measuring 7 x 6 x 4mm.
4 o'clock 94mm from the nipple measuring 7 x 6 x 4mm.

Well defined ovoid-shaped hypoechoic nodules are also noted which are as follows:

3 o'clock 56mm from the nipple measuring 11 x 9 x 6mm.
2 o'clock 103mm from the nipple measuring 7 x 6 x 6mm.
2 o'clock 100mm from the nipple measuring 6 x 5 x 3mm.

No enlarged axillary lymph nodes noted.

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Any stories relatable positive or negative!

Im 31 years old and noticed a lump in my upper breast area. Its been there for a few months. Ive had a mammo and an ultrasound. its hypoechoic, solid, irregular mass with angular margins. Birads 4. I had a biopsy 2 days ago and im just waiting for results and going a little crazy 😬 if you've had a similar lump or experience what was your results?

I just wanted to fist say GOD IS GREAT. This journey was the most stressful 1 and a half month journey. I had gone to get an ultrasound because I thought I felt a lump in my right breast. Turns out, that was just breast and it was actually my left breast that had a 1.2cm hypoechoic mass with calcifications, internal and external vascularity, posterior acoustic shadowing, and irregular shape. I couldn’t find anyone on Reddit who had all my features and I was starting to get NERVOUS. I had every bad thought you could possibly imagine and spend almost my entire days going through Reddit posts, but I wanted to get on here and say EVEN WHEN IT LOOKS REALLY BAD ONLY PATHOLOGY WILL REALLY TELL. Mines ended up being INCREASED STROMAL FIBROSIS, FOCAL DUCTAL EPITHELIAL HYPERPLASIA, APOCRINE METAPLASIA AND MILD PERIDUCTAL CHRONIC INFLAMATION. NO EVIDENCE OF CALCIFICATIONS OR MALIGNANCY.

28F, I had an ultrasound done on my right breast on January 22nd for a lump. I’m very, very small chested.

FINDINGS: There is a 8 mm hypoechoic dermal lesion at 1 o'clock likely a small follicular sebaceous cyst with a benign appearance. There is a similar 2nd lesion measuring 3 mm at 11 o'clock also within the dermis and likely a benign follicular sebaceous cyst. No suspicious mass, clustered micro calcification, architectural distortion, dermal thickening or adenopathy is present to suggest malignancy. IMPRESSION: BI-RADS category 2 benign.

Fast forward to now and this same lump, that I felt before, feels like it’s grown a little and feels hard. It feels connected to tissue. It’s not just a single lump by itself. It’s almost like a rounded, raised area of the breast tissue maybe, but definitely prominent. It moves with the tissue, not by itself. Maybe it’s the cyst I’m feeling that the radiologist referred to? It is fixing to be time for my cycle and I check these things often. I had a breast exam (gyno felt with hands) at my yearly a month ago and she didn’t seem concerned with anything but it feels different to me now. Should I push for another ultrasound? Or am I totally overthinking this considering it’s only been 4 months since my ultrasound? Breast cancer does run in my family but not my immediate family.

I’m 23 and felt a lump in my breast. Went in for ultrasound and these are the results:

Lesion 1: 1.4 x 1.1 x 1.4 cm.
12 o'clock. 1 cm. from the nipple. Circumscribed. Hypochoic. Parallel. No posterior features.
Solid probably benign mass most in keeping with fibroadenoma. No retroareolar abnormality is seen.

Doctor is recommending ultrasound at 6 months to check for stability. Any others with similar experiences/advice?

Has anyone seen a genetics counselor after negative brca 1/2 analysis? I just got my negative results but was given a referral to see a genetic counselor. Not sure if it is worthwhile. I see Dr next week and will ask about it but am just wondering if anyone has found it helpful.

I have indents in my right breast and a lump in my right breast but the radiologist didn’t find anything abnormal in my ultrasound. 🫩 I just wanted answers. My boobs aren’t Like this this isn’t normal.

I had an ultrasound yesterday due to a lump at 0100 region and pains. I was told I have dense tissue and the lump is the tissue and dismissed of all pain so they didn't scan around my nipple where the pain comes from. As well as its all hormonal after I repeatedly said I know what hormonal breast pain feels like and this is not it, it does not come and go with my cycle.

I'm trying to be rational, so realistically should I seek a second opinion? I have a family history of breast, and uterine cancers. Or is dense tissue truly painful and its just something I'll learn to live with?

Hi! I am a 45 year-old female with some chronic mild health anxiety for years and years. I have been diagnosed with clinically dense breast tissue, and I am seen in the dense breast clinic locally whenever I have a new finding on self exam and they also follow my mammograms and ultrasounds. I have no family history, and so far all of my imaging has been fine, only showing breast dense breast tissue.

Two months ago, I noticed some increasingly dense tissue on the left side that hadn’t been there before. As I usually do, I waited a cycle or two before reporting it to my provider. I was seen by them yesterday in the clinic for this issue, and the provider could not appreciate any lumps in the breast itself, but did palpate a lymph node in my axilla on the same side. She looked at it with an ultrasound at the time of the visit, and noted it to look like a lymph node… She did not state that it looked enlarged or abnormal in anyway. She noted that I am on the thin side, and it’s not completely abnormal to feel lymph nodes in lean individuals.

She decided to order a bilateral diagnostic mammogram with an ultrasound of the left breast and the left axilla to take a look at the lymph node. I cannot palpate the lymph node on my own, however, I can palpate lymph nodes on the other side in the right axilla. Has anyone ever had an enlarged lymph node, or palpable lymph node in the axilla that came and went, or was benign, or showed something more? My imaging is not scheduled for several months.

I’ve been reading some stuff here that they were Vit D deficient when they found out they have breast mass. What are your thoughts on this?

I have this undiagnosed health anxiety that led me to do breast ultrasound every month for my peace of mind. I just had breast ultrasound last May 11th and I’m spiralling now again because im trying some supplements that I think might help me or my mass. Now I’m kinda worried my “benign looking mass” will be affected of those supplement and will be worse with my next scan. Somebody please scold me :(

So it’s been two days since I noticed a little red area near my nipple on my right boob and it hasn’t changed at all.

I feel a VERY small kinda bump? not really like a lump it isn’t feels like when you touch one of the raised veins on the back of your palm. But it also hurts when I touch it. Not a lot at all but it hurts. What the hell is it? I don’t have insurance to go anywhere right now.

i know that ive only felt it for two days but I’m a very paranoid person.

I am 54 and had my annual mammogram a couple of months ago. I got called a few weeks ago that I needed to come back for an ultrasound and possibly more mammogram pics. Well, today I had my ultrasound, which I’ve had before, and I knew something was up because the sonographer also checked the lymph nodes under my arm. The radiologist came and talked to me and said something new had come up, it didn’t look like cancer but they couldn’t rule it out because it didn’t meet the requirements for a cyst. I thought she told me there was a 1% likelihood it was cancer but when I got home and looked up statistics for percentage of biopsies that end up being cancer, it was more like 20%! She said my lymph nodes weren’t swollen so if it is cancer it’s likely caught very early, but I’m freaking out. I have really bad health anxiety, specifically about cancer, and this has me reeling. My biopsy is in three weeks and the wait is going to be torture. I know we have these screening tests to find things early, but I just never expected this. Ugh.

Hello! I had my lumpectomy today. I’m 14 hours post op and have minimal pain. Mind you I’ve had 2 tramadol and a nerve block. Shouldn’t the nerve block have worn off? I have fatty breasts size 42 F. I’m not complaining about minimal pain just wondering if I should be prepared for it to get worse.

my right nipple when i lay flat on my back kind of dips in and its scaring me i have no lumps, pain or dents in either breast

i need an opinion to see if anyone elses does it when they lay on their back

ill post a pic in the comments

UPDATE- i went this morning and showed my doctor the picture i took and she said its normal for tissue to pull back when your lying down and she said that’s probably whats going on but she said if i wanted to have a ultrasound done i could for peace of mind, she also said the color of my skin and nipple look well and nothing alerts her of breast cancer.

How long have you had to wait to even get an appointment for a stereotactic core needle biopsy? It’s been 5 weeks for me.

I’m kind of getting to where I think I’m just over it.

BENIGN Fibroadenoma 🥳🥳🥳

thank God! 🙏🏻

I wish everyone here good luck 🍀