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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schedule an appointment with a breast surgeon, not an OB/GYN.  I've found that GYNs don't know nearly as much about breast issues as breast surgeons.  I see a breast surgeon once every 3 months due to a variety of issues.  I've had fibrocystic breasts since I was about 18.  Constant breast pain at all times of my cycle.  I never noticed any lumps until my GYN found a lump when I was 30.  Turns out it was a fibroadenoma.  This is a solid benign tumor that often occurs in women with fibrocystic breasts.  I've had 5 of these fibroadenomas surgically removed in the past few years.  They just kept popping up, I found a few of them myself.  Interestingly, now that all of these have been removed, my fibrocystic breast pain has decreased dramatically.  Now my breasts only hurt the week before my period instead of excrutiating pain that week and moderate pain the rest of the cycle.  [b]I have tiny breasts[/b] and have had a lot of issues with this.  I've had a few cysts, but they are small and always resolved by the next ultrasound.

One time my left breast swelled up, felt hot, and was excrutiatingly tender.  The other one was fine.  My gyn attributed this to a hormone fluxuation.  Never happened besides that one time.

I have completely cut out caffeine and that has helped a lot with the pain.  [/quote]

OP here and this sticks out to me, as I have tiny breasts too (32A). I wonder if women with smaller breasts are more likely to get these? Your post has given me something to think about. I am going to schedule an appointment with my GYN just as a precautionary measure but I will keep your advice re: a breast surgeon in the back of my mind just in case I notice any future changes. Did your fibroadenomas feel hard? My cyst has typically felt fairly "soft" but now, despite the major swelling going down and that breast returning to mostly normal, the lump I am feeling there feels harder. I suppose it's possible it is a fibroadenoma. [/quote]

I wrote the post you quoted.  I don't think breast size has anything to do with fibrocystic breasts or fibroadenomas, but having had 5 fibroadenomas already removed with tiny breasts, I am so glad I don't have larger breasts as I would probably have even more issues.  I would recommend skipping the gyn and going right to a breast surgeon.  At first, I was intimidated by the idea of a breast surgeon, but I soon realized that they are so much better with the breast issues than a regular gyn.  I started going to one right after my gyn found the first lump, which was a fibroadenoma, and now I just get all my clinical breast exams with the breast surgeon.  There's even a difference in how breast surgeons versus gyns do breast exams.  Breast surgeons are so much more thorough.  Most of my gyns never even looked at my breasts for a visual inspection--they just did the exam with the gown on.  And their exam was so cursory.  A breast surgeon spends a lot of time with the exam.  I think the way most gyns do it is not very thorough.  So I think if one has breast issues, see a breast surgeon for the best care.  And if you have to have something removed, go to a breast surgeon for that too.

All my breast issues occurred between 29 and 33.  I think my hormones may have been fluctuating then or something.  After 33 things have settled down.  And now I have much less cyclical breast pain than I used to have.  I think part of this is the settling down of the hormones, the other part is that my surgeon removed a lot of tissue with those 5 fibroadenomas, and maybe that was the tissue that was causing pain.  [/quote]

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