Sometimes we worry needlessly about an issue like this. I have, and later found that it was nothing serious. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it's nothing serious.

Do you keep track of your urine / saliva pH?

What kind of diet do you eat?

One day I was doing a breast exam and felt a lump. I made my husband feel it too. I started crying and was on the phone to the doctor in a hot second. It turned out to be nothing. I've done the same when I didn't have insurance and paid out of pocket. Every time it's turned out to be nothing. My lump felt like a piece of a pea.

A few points/questions/comments... First of all, your breasts will get a little lumpy and sensitive around your period and ovulation. I feel my cyst better around my cycle. How long have you noticed this lump? Has it grown at all or is it the same size? What did your doctor say? There are many organizations that can help you get a low cost mammogram.

I can get pea-sized cysts when I overdo chemical exposures, eating foods I have allergies or sensitivities to, am under stress, push a new health practice too fast and back up my body's detoxification mechanisms, etc.

They go away with a few days or weeks when I remove the underlying causes. This has happened to me several times over the last 10 yrs.

The one time I went to a doc and he took a biopsy [negative] and talked me into cutting it out, I got a horrible infection [From the hospital, I wonder???] and ended up with the largest and most ugly scar on my whole body.

I am very sensitive to some electromagnetic fields and can not tolerate x-rays. I have not gotten a mammogram for many years. They are DIAGNOPSTIC not preventative, as is often claimed.

What PREVENTS any cancer is to optimize one's health with no cheating or half-measures. That is what I choose to do.

If I ever did get a cancer, I would not want any of the drugs or chemo. I am too likely to have a bad reaction to them. [I try to avoid ALL big pharma meds.] I might consider surgery if the cancer was really huge.

Given the above, I NOT trust my cancer or breast health to MDs.

I do recognise that no everyone may make this choice, but am putting it out there as a viable option, especially for the financially challenged.

Hope this helps!

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I've had breast lumps a few times and it never turns out to be anything other than cysts which are deemed "normal" for some women. Recently, I had a very large one, which seemed to change in size, shape and firmness. It was also often painful to touch or to even lay on my stomach at night. Went to the doctor, had it checked out, discovered that I actually have 4 cysts in the same area and that they are benign. The doctor opted not to do anything about them (by this time, they'd begun to shrink and weren't causing me any more discomfort).

Since my doctor's visit about a month ago, it's gone down even further. My suggestion is if you are drinking caffeine, eating chocolate, processed sugars or using an anti-perspirant --stop immediately. Caffeine is a huge contributor to breast lumps and anti-perspirants, as I'm sure you know, stop you from perspiring and trap toxins in the area which often manifest as lumps in your breasts.

Hope this helps.