not asking for diagnosis or medical advice, but

lizziebabe

Yes - Always go and seek medical opinion if there are any breast changes.
I also get cysts and am always told that if I get more I am not to assume it is just what I have had previously. Recently went to the breast clinic myself, had 2 mammograms, 2 cyst aspirations and 2 biopsies, everything normal, thank goodness.

Torry_Quine

meritaten wrote: »

my gp practice is sort of uncertain. I may get the GP - or a locum. most probably the locum as GP wants to retire and spends less and less time there.
I have had the mammograms and they have been fine. last one was about four years ago though.

You should get a mammogram every three years so you're overdue anyway.

meritaten

There is NO family history of breast cancer. on both family sides. but, there is something not right on right breast and you are all right, it needs checking out.
just a bit scared and I can understand people rather not knowing??????????? right now want to bury my head under duvet and not think about it. Stupid I know - but that's the way I way I feel. Hell, I have gone about lumps in breasts...........and its turned out ok - I just have a bad feeling here.

coolcait

meritaten wrote: »

There is NO family history of breast cancer. on both family sides. but, there is something not right on right breast and you are all right, it needs checking out.
just a bit scared and I can understand people rather not knowing??????????? right now want to bury my head under duvet and not think about it. Stupid I know - but that's the way I way I feel. Hell, I have gone about lumps in breasts...........and its turned out ok - I just have a bad feeling here.

Of course you have a bad feeling - it's the first thought which crosses any woman's mind when she finds a lump, or sees a change in her breasts.

But, so many times it turns out to be nothing to worry about. And a quick visit to the GP can save you from so much time worrying.

And if it does happen that there's something more there (hopefully there isn't) then the earlier it's picked up, the better.

A GP visit is the best way forward. And if your GP has, in the past, made you feel that you are wasting his/her time then you are free to ask to be seen by another doctor, or to change practice.

*SuzySue*

meritaten wrote: »

but this is different. in the last couple of months I have noticed the skin around the nipple in my right breast has become very dry. today I found a couple of areas which had what looked liked 'whiteheads' but scraping at them with fingernail I pulled what were more like threads. but were sort of 'waxy'?
should I go to GP or is this normal for a woman in late fifties?

I am in my mid-30s and get spots on my boobs. I have 2 open pores next to my right nipple which often get blocked with bright white waxy stuff which I can squeeze out every week or so in quite long strands. I've had these for years, but they've been more frequent since having my baby a few years back. A breastfeeding coordinator told me they were normal and nothing to worry about. There's a name for them but I forget it now.

I also have feathery hairs on some of them after breast feeding. Again, I've been told this is normal.

Perhaps you have some hormonal changes going on?

You should see the GP if you are worried, just didn't want you to think you were alone!

thorsoak

Meri - what advice would you be giving to any other poster who had written your post?

GO AND SEE YOUR DOCTOR! It won't be wasting his/her time if it puts your mind at rest x

Tiglath

*SuzySue* wrote: »

get spots on my boobs. I have 2 open pores next to my right nipple which often get blocked with bright white waxy stuff which I can squeeze out every week or so in quite long strands.

Yes I've had these since at least my twenties and sometimes it's like a flaky layer of dry skin covering pores; I've been told they're normal as well but best to get them checked out, meri.

miniandfloss

Please go to the dr's. If they make you feel like you are wasting their time with something as important as your health then maybe look for another gp?