Painful Fibroadenoma
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In May, I was doing a self breast exam and found a lump. After messing with it so much I immediately had pain where the lump is and the pain has never fully gone away and it is now November. I immediately made an appt with my family doctor in May who refrred me to a breast center. At my appt at the Breast Center I had a mammogram and an ultrasound done on my right breast, the doctor told me it is a 3.12 cm Fibroadenoma. I had a biopsy performed and the doctor told me that Fibroadeomans do not cause pain. I cannot lift heavy objects without hurting afterwards and I also have back pain in the same exact spot as the breast pain up front. I explained this to the doctor and he told me to take Ibuprofen 4 times a day (which I did and the pain came right back after stopping Ibuprofen). I am afraid to go back to the doctor because he might think I'm imagining the pain because he said there is not way that the Fibroadenoma is causing pain. Please help me. Why is there pain there still?
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JaredDunn melissa73890
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I had the nearly same thing. I'm a male, but I have a significant breast cancer history in my family.
I had mine biopsied and the surgeon said it's benign and nothing to worry about. When I told her how painful it was, she said it shouldn't cause pain. I insisted it was painful. She told me to take Ibuprofen to break the cycle of inflammation. That helped at first, but the pain came back.
Researching online, I read about myofascial release (which is similar to deep tissue massage). I found a person in my area who specialized in it and she worked on my breast. It helped tremendously. I have been pain-free since.
Best of luck to you.
Spindles melissa73890
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Many years ago I had one of these. It's quaintly called a "breast mouse" because of the way it moves about under the skin as opposed to being fixed like cancer lumps can be. I remember it was quite tender at times but I can't really remember if it was worse at certain times of the month. I saw a consultant who decided it might as well be taken out straight away so I had a local injection then a little cut and it was taken out and I was sewn up . Apart from a tiny scar I have had no problem with it coming back. . If you think it could be worse at certain times of the month then perhaps you could try what another consultant told me when he saw me about a cyst I had in my other breast. He suggested taking Evening Primrose Oil capsules and the active ingredient is something called Gamma Linolenic Acid or GLA. There is a specific dose to take and he said to take it for four months to flood my body with the GLA. It doesn't matter how much EPO there is, it's the GLA that's important. He told me to take 240mg of GLA a day which I did by buying some capsules with 80mg in each and taking three a day. I have to say that after four months the very painful breasts I had were completely pain free and I haven't had any pain since. Although you don't talk about general breast pain it might help and EPO is supposed to be good for breast pain, hair and nails so it wouldn't do any harm to take it anyway. One other thing the consultant told me is to "stop feeling your lumps, leave them alone!" I bet you keep having a feel don't you!!!
kim27383 Spindles
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I have painful lumps around my breastbone. I keep feeling them and that causes even more pain. I feel them to make sure it's not something worse happening. Ugh.