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[Mary G]

Great news and what a massive relief! 

[flo69]

Thank you all for the well wishes, Taz said the name of it, duct ectasia, basically where my milk ducts are so widened with age that they've filled with some milky gunge and they are too old to care, so just leave it there for a doctor to pull off with a syringe!

CLKD I didn't tell my Dad, that could have finished him off, so we told him as little as needed, he knew I was going for a repeat test even though I only had one in September but not that I had a lump or that I was worried beyond just hating mammograms. My Dad did his 82yo thing of tossing his head and dismissing it as a women's issue, I knew he would, so I was able to raise the subject (so he couldn't say we didn't tell him), but so briefly I said nothing much at all.

[CLKD]

Did U celebrate 

[flo69]

I'm going back for my review appointment today. Three and a half months later it doesn't seem to have changed at all. The lump is still there and only hurts when touched, but it isn't reducing in size.
I'll ask if it will go away, but I already know the answer. I'll be told, "Sometimes they go away, sometimes they don't."

I'm just posting to update and say this appointment feels so different from the last one where I didn't know.
In January I was scared, now I'm not. I don't mind having a lump if it's harmless and it was caused by the pressure from the mammogram plates, so I won't be putting that breast back into the machine ever again. They can scan my left one at screening, but they won't get the chance to injure the right one again. It was always prone to mastitis when I was feeding and clearly is too vulnerable for their methods. I've had a connective tissue disorder from birth, at a few days old I was put in a cast to protect my legs, they didn't know if I would ever walk, I'm in receipt of PIP, yet the NHS don't make adjustments if your disease is unusual, it's not their speciality, they work off a list of named disorders, anything else is ignored, but I'm not going along with them causing me injury any more, I refuse.

[CLKD]

Good 4 U!  Ultrasound exam would be much kinder all round.  This is of course what your GP should be referring U for 

Let us know how you get on.

[flo69]

Well, a needle biopsy hurts a bit, but much less than a mammogram, I've had each test twice now.

After an initial examination, they stick a wide needle in behind the nipple then rapidly push it back and forth to collect some of the lump for testing, no pain relief available, I assume that's because it's not done on men.

It's the same lump, it's not likely to have turned nasty since the first test in January.

So all being well they are discharging me when the results get back, she said she expects it to be absolutely fine.

The answer to my question of, "Will it go away?" was, "Well, let's have a look", so they don't know.

[Taz2]

Well, a needle biopsy hurts a bit, but much less than a mammogram, I've had each test twice now.

After an initial examination, they stick a wide needle in behind the nipple then rapidly push it back and forth to collect some of the lump for testing, no pain relief available, I assume that's because it's not done on men.

Just to say that this test is done on men with possible breast cancer.

Taz x