Re: Not quite OT--personal request

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It sounds like the Dr. is fishing. Certainly she isn't causing the problem! But that's as far as I can go for help. And you probably already feel the same way.My experience is that no one knows that much about women's bodies period. Especially not the breast. Please keep us posted. Beebe, M.Ed., RLC, IBCLC Lactation Consultant/Postpartum Doula www.second9months.comwww.facebook.com/thesecond9months--- Subject: Not quite OT--personal requestTo: "ibclc-pp" < >Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 11:14 AM

I'm hoping one of you may have some suggestions for me.

My daughter, 22 (has PCOS) recently told me that she'd been having

discharge from her left nipple for the past year. Sometimes it's

clearish, sometimes bloody. Doesn't usually happen spontaneously; has

happened when she had on a sports bra. Has uncomfortably full

feeling, relieved when she presses on the breast and discharge is

released.

So, we see someone in Women's Health (doc unknown to us, seems nice

enough) who has some labs done. She thinks it's probably nothing, r/o

pituitary issue, check prolactin levels, etc. Then we go to the

breast clinic, where they tell her she's doing this to herself by

pressing on her breast, but let's do a sonogram, then decide to do a

biopsy because they see something. They call back and say they think

it's an intraductal papilloma and they'd like to remove it.

I realized that I don't know a heck of a lot about discharge from

*non* lactating breasts! I'm going to get Love's breast book

(only have an older edition). What else? Somehow intraductal

papilloma doesn't fit for me, but again I'm not an expert on

non-lactating breasts. I can't help but think the PCOS might be

impacting this.

We'll have a surgical consult in June. I'd like to be

informed/prepared going in. Suggestions? Resources?

Wagner-

Roseville, CA

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I don't know much about that condition, but I have PCOS and I have had discharge

from my right breast for the past two years. I haven't lactated in a number of

years. I assumed mine had something to do with me showing moms how to do breast

compressions or doing them while describing over the phone. Mine isn't bloody

though. It just looks like a tiny bit of oily liquid inside my bra. I switched

to the left breast, but it only happens on the right side.

I have not read any research about nipple discharge and PCOS, but I'm willing to

bet there's a link because of the hormone fluctuations that can happen.

Although obviously I can't say this is the case with your daughter. I hope you

are able to find some information that can help her in this decision. And find

out what's really happening.

I was on a medication a few years ago to treat my endometriosis and found myself

engorged and lactating again two years after weaning. The medication was Lupron.

My doctor had never heard of that side effect, but it happened during the first

two months I was on it.

Heinz, BA IBCLC

Beach Babies Lactation Support, LLC