I am a little scared....I am high risk for breast cancer and go to a breast clinic every 6 months. My next appointment is in a few weeks. I have found a lump. It is probably nothing; I have had several lumps removed that were fine and I have a very large cyst somewhere in that area (but the dr couldn't find it 6 months ago.) Nonetheless I keep poking at this and it seems to be a consistent, hard, pea-sized lump and I've never felt anything quite like this before. I've never actually felt any of my lumps but I do feel abnormal tissue sometimes. Hopefully this is a different variety of that.

I'll be so glad for my specialist and mammogram.

I've not told anyone about this. I need to. My therapist will be on vacation just before my appointments so I won't have him to calm me down like usual. I need to tell my mom. But I hate for anyone to worry when it's probably fine. I just have this fear that if not this time then next or the next will be the time they find the cancer...It's not a positive thought but it's hard to avoid sometimes, this lump being one of them.


Women: Get your mammograms on time! The only reason I know I am high risk and what to watch for (plus getting watched very carefully) is that I chose to start mammograms at 40 and kept up with the every 2 years schedule. If I'd waited until 45 or later something might have been out of control in there.