Exch surgery next month, ?'s about opposite side-details sorry

1toughmomma

Ugh. I had a LeftMx in late November. Expansion sped along until a couple weeks ago when I felt right sided breast pain and a lump. My GYN felt it, too and reffered me for a DX mammo and U/S. That night I saw my PS and he felt it too and gave me the rundown on what to expect at the DX appt the next day. Long story short NOTHING was seen on mammo or U/S despite the US tech and radiologist feeling it. Fine, no obvious signs of cancer, I had a clean rt sided MRI in OCtober/November so I was pretty reassured, but have checked everyday to see if the area grew as my cycle progressed (lump and pain was noticed on day 8 of my cycle, so it was an odd time). No change other than this month my rt breast really hurts as the month goes on. Not super unusual. Well  last night I got out of the shower and I could tell my nipple had discharge on it. Not brown or bloody, but milky. I wiped it away and just the pressure from me holding my breast to look at it made more come out, and then a third time a tiny amount came out then it was done. I am going to assume that this is nothing to freak out about and attribute to probably my over-checking of this lump that doesn't show up on film and that just stimulated its production. My PS plans to take out the "lump" during my breast lift at my exchange surgery. Unless this turns ominous looking I am just keeping this to myself. Has anyone else been so nervous about a lump on the opposite side that they encouraged nipple discharge by checking it too much or is this something I should be concerned about?

ziggypop

Are you saying that you plan on not telling your doctors about the discharge? Checking on lumps squeezing the nipple, etc can cause discharge or at least increase it - but you really need to tell your doctors. It may be that it will give them a better way of testing the lump that you have & determining that it is not cancerous & preventing your surgeon from having to remove it. I have never had discharge, but know that they sometimes run labs on the discharge itself. This just isn't something that you should withhold from your docs - It could be that it is a signal of infection & that you need to wait on the surgery - you sure don't want to increase the chances of infection during surgery. It may be no big deal at all, but really, you need to tell your docs.