Not quite OT--personal request

[Guest guest]

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