Hi, 

Sorry to hear you are having sudden pains, I will advise you call your Gp or breast care nurse for professional advice.

In my case, I had a mastectomy on 15th of May and have seen my period after that and I didn't notice any strange pain apart from the normal pain I have been having after surgery.

Take your pain killers and call them ASAP. 

Hope you get better soon. 

Cheers xx

Hi Imogen,

Welcome to our forum,

I am so sorry to hear that you are having this pain since your period started. Do please contact your breast care nurse and ask her whether or not this is normal? You may have developed a seroma, or swelling in your breast. This can become quite painful, but eases as soon as the fluid is released. Another possibility is that you may have developed an infection. Again, antibiotics can get that sorted.

I have had a lumpectomy and a double mastectomy and had to have a few seromas drained after my mastectomies, but that gave me great relief each time.

I hope that things settle down for you soon.

Please let us know how you get on. We are always here for you.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

I had my excision in October and I never experienced this. I did have tingly/prickly pains which I was told was nerve damage but nothing like you are describing. Might be worth having a pop to see your GP. Take care 

Hello

I've skimmed through this thread just to read your storys, I'm going through pretty much the same thing I've lost discharge from my left breast dark brown colour and is also painful so I got referred and I've had swabs and a ultrasound done, turns out I have to have either one or all my ducts removed so I'm just waiting for my date to come through. I'm more worried about the outcome as they said there maybe a few cells there but they've told me not to worry. Im just so curious to how this happens have any of yous been giving any light to that, I'm just worrying cause I'm only 24 I just feel this is just the very start of one thing leading to another  

TIA xx

Hi Chris, as I said I thankfully got the all clear and nothing was found. They never found a real cause for my symptoms either, my consultant did say there was some widening to some of the ducts but she wouldn’t usually have expected this to cause bloody discharge although she couldn’t rule that out as the cause. So it’s a bit of a mystery for me. But she seemed confident with the pathology that nothing was going on so I have to trust in that.  I think it’s more usual that they do find the cause of the symptoms. Whether that be a papilloma or a ductal issue or something. Hope you’re procedure goes well. Take care

Hi Littlestar,

This is great news. Have you been discharged completely, or do you have to return for regular check-ups?

I know that it's not very satisfactory when you don't get an answer for your symptoms, but here's hoping that all remains clear.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Nope they said no need to see me again, I’m still too young for mammograms too so no routine screening yet either. I’ll just continue with regular self checks :)

Hi Littlestar,

This is even better news.

Just make sure that you don't forget those self checks and, get referred straight back to the breast clinic if you discover anything suspicious. Here's hoping that you never need to!

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Hi Kim,

I'm glad to hear that you didn't suffer any pain, even when you had your infection. Do you have any follow up/review appointments or have you been discharged?

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx