Had a breast clinic appointment today after my GP referred me due to recurrent mastitis.
The nurse was very nice and said the GP had also queried whether the implant I have in the affected breast was leaking/ruptured. I told her that the GP had asked me if I thought it was leaking and I had told her that I had no reason to think so and that leaking or ruptures were very rare. The breast clinic nurse agreed.
However, they then scanned me and the sonographer then went and got a consultant and radiologist to come in and scan me. They spent ages looking for a leak, didn't look at an area the nurse had noticed was tender and came to the conclusion I had some 'capsular contracture' (sort of like thickened scar tissue) around the implant. They weren't sure if mastitis could have caused this. I know it can cause it and it wasn't like that prior to a particularly bad bout of mastitis a couple of months ago. They then sent me back to the nurse for my results. 
A consultant then examined me with the nurse and started talking about how as my surgery had been cosmetic they wouldn't reoperate unless there was a medical need to do so. I pointed out to him that I wouldn't expect them to operate on me at all and as far as I was concerned I was there to find a reason for the recurrent mastitis. He then told me breast implants can't cause mastitis, which is not what I've read/heard at all.
To make things worse he then asked how long I planned to BF for and when I said at least two years he said ' at least two years?' as though that were astounding! I replied that that was the recommendation, yes.
I then asked again what the cause for all the mastitis might be and the nurse said it could be the way I BF and to go to a BF support group! Well yes, only I do and the latch etc has been checked by several people and it seems fine to me. I'm also very conscious of feeding 'properly' from that side.
So, really I am none the wiser. What normally happens at a breast clinic? Or is that it?