Nipple/Areola Weirdness

hello.

I am quite upset to be even posting here. But I feel comforted to post where there are so many beautiful, brave women. I admire you all for your incrediblestrengths as well as weaknesses you fought through to emerge stronger.

I'm 55. I've never been a mother. Never been on hormone replacement. Newly meno - 16 months. I'm in good shape, don't drink or smoke, but have been through a decade of extreme stress. My mother, aunt and a cousin had breast cancer. My cousin- it was inflammatory breast cancer and she past away from it. I'm going for genetic testing in coming weeks. Not sure when - Covid is making everything so difficult.

7 weeks ago I woke up with strange areola and nipple pain in my right breast. Looked in the mirror and was shocked to see entire irritated red nipple, swollen areola and 2 red streaks reaching up an inch beyond areola into skin. This literally happened overnight. Over two days the streaks were receding and the pain had stopped. A tele-doctor (due to Covid) prescribed Azithromycin and sent me for an ultrasound. Antibiotics helped a bit but a bit isnt good enough. I called a local doctor (I don't have a primary) and he said it's mastitis and put me in clindamycin and a topical antibiotic. It worked better - and I'd say the issue improved to about 75%. Ultrasound results came back as bilateral birads 3 - I have cysts in both breasts - probably benign- recheck in 6 months

Since finishing antibiotics, improvement has been at a crawl. The weirdness is that the nipple on my affected breast is just slightly warmer than the other by up to 1 degree during the day. Because of that temp difference, 50% of the time it looks weird compared to the other. Because of the temp difference, the affected one doesn't react the same as the other. It won't be as erect when cool. The nipple and areola is slightly darker than the other. It just doesn't look right. It feels normal most of the time but sometimes the nipple is very sensitive. At night after warm in bed, if I get up to bathroom and look, they are pale and relaxed and look identical. In morning, they look identical and temp is the same. When cold and erect, they look identical except affected one is slightly redder than other.

(UPDATE: I forgot to mention, in earlier weeks lymph nodes from the side of my breast to all the way up into my neck and even face were painful.)

I've had no eczema type rash. No discharge. No itch. Very little pain, weeks ago. No breast size change. No orange peel skin changes. No inverted or flattening nipple (affected one is smaller than other sometimes). No lumps under nipple. Only initial irritation and swelling that receded, remaining redness, intermittent sensitive nipple, and intermittent temp difference.

To me, I don't have any of the classic symptoms of Pagets or Inflammatory. But I'm panicking. The weirdness is really terrifying me. Calling doctor tomorrow and depending on protocol during lockdown, he may see me.

Has anyone out there had this kind ofweirdness??