Hi all
I actually posted a couple of years ago as I was having some problems with my right breast & needed to be referred to the breast clinic. My symptoms were thankfully given the all clear and I was just told the changes in my breast were because of my breast tissue. I had an ultrasound at the time, and there wasn't any cause for concern. I was only 23 at the time so a lot of it was put down to my breasts changing because I was young. I'm 25 now.
I've recently had a baby (yay!), my baby is 4 months old & I am exclusively breastfeeding him. Since giving birth, I've had recurrent problems and mastitis, again with my right breast.
latch has been checked multiple times, positioning is good, tongue tie has been sorted, I can't really understand why it keeps coming back.
I've been admitted to hospital for iv antibiotics and completed 4 rounds of antibiotics since & the mastitis never clears. It's never been an infected duct but always inflammation. There's not a big lump and no signs of an absess, I'm also not becoming super unwell with the mastitis, it just seems to constantly be there. The first time I was in hospital my CRP was really high & my septic markers were all raised. I was also having bleeding from my right breast (could see if I pumped) which was put down to the mastitis.
I recently went back to the doctors as my mastitis wasn't clearing, my milk was tested which showed no bacteria in it that they needed to treat, so I was examined and referred for more tests at the breast clinic again.
My right breast has thickening, a slight red patch, but mostly it's the sharpness, burning sensation, pulling sensation especially when I feed (which isn't my let down as I know what that feels like), aching & it's really swollen constantly, and this pain that just doesn't seem to be going away. The pain is in the top and round the side of my breast (which is where the thickening is), and now into my armpit and down my arm. It's also itchy at times. Also worth saying I'm not having temperature fevers, but I have a lot of sweats, feeling particularly hot at night, when it's not actually hot in the room. I've also lost a lot of weight very quickly. I put these two things down to postpartum sweats & baby weight loss but my doctor isn't totally convinced.
im just a bit concerned now as to why my right breast hasn't been right for a few years and now it's the breast affected again, and it would be good to hear from anyone who had similar symptoms or story, and what the breast clinic did? I have the breast clinic on Friday. Will they do another ultrasound and I've read about maybe a biopsy? But if it's just inflammation what would they even biopsy? My doctor mentioned cancer to me as something it could be, and although I really am thinking it's probably a type of mastitis that is just stubborn to what it's been treated with so far, i can't help but have that worry in the back of my mind.
