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this could be a brain tumour!

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allhallows · 18/10/2005 21:05

I have galacteria... breasts that produce milk when not breast feeding. If it's not due to some medication I've taken or some hormonal imbalance, I may have a brain tumour. Heeeellllp!

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allhallows · 18/10/2005 21:11

well, no one seems unduly worried! i guess there are worse things...

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compo · 18/10/2005 21:12

I leaked milk for about a year after I'd given up b/feeding. Not much, but a bi. Hth

Milliways · 18/10/2005 21:14

When are you seeing the doc/specialist?

Hope they put your mind at rest soon.

Don't think people don't care, think Toorisky is crowding out any sensible discussion tonight

marthamoo · 18/10/2005 21:14

Are you seeing your GP? I'd do that before panicking too much. And like compo my boobs were leaky for a year after stopping bf-ing.

JoolsToo · 18/10/2005 21:15

a little knowledge .....

have you been googling?????????

MusicLover · 18/10/2005 21:16

OMG allhallows.
i dont really understand anything about this at all, but it sounds pretty scary to me. How can it be a brain tumour, when its your breasts that are leaking-whats the connection.

sorry to hear this news.

Yorkiegirl · 18/10/2005 21:17

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allhallows · 18/10/2005 21:20

Saw the specialist this morning. He did a scan of my thyroid, took some blood for testing & gave me a prescription for some kind of brain scan.

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allhallows · 18/10/2005 21:21

I stopped b'feeding 2 years ago!

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JoolsToo · 18/10/2005 21:21

surely he must have given you some more information as to what it may be? Don't worry

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allhallows · 18/10/2005 21:28

He said surgery was the worst case scenario! If there is a tumour, it can be shrunk with meds. But the meds have side effects! I can't stop thinking of whatsisname in ER...

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aloha · 18/10/2005 21:29

Don't panic! What your dr is looking for is a 'tumour' on the pituitary gland, which is a gland which, amoung other things, secretes prolactin, the hormone that causes milk production. If there is a swelling here, the production can go awry and you produce milk when you aren't pregnant or breastfeeding.
However this is NOT a cancerous tumour or a brain tumour. It is a BENIGN swelling, that can be removed by surgery. You are not going to die!

Furball · 18/10/2005 21:29

Found This info which says that even if it is a tumour it probably won't be cancer. Which is a good thing

Mirage · 18/10/2005 21:32

My FIL has just had a brain tumour operated on.His symptoms were falls,blurred vision & being sick.Are leaky breasts the only symptom?

I know 3 other people who hall had brain tumours & they all suffered loss of balance,falls/fits,vision problems ect.

I hope it is just a hormonal imbalance.My mum has had slightly leaky breasts since having children & her last baby is nearly 36 now.

Blandmum · 18/10/2005 21:32

I have a friend who has had this cons=dition for more than 10 years. As loha says tumours (which is just med speak for swelling btw) are almost always benign, not cancer.

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allhallows · 18/10/2005 21:33

I could easily live with the leaky breasts but not this horrible swelling and pain!

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bubblerock · 18/10/2005 21:33

Isn't that what Sunita had in Corrie - she thought she was pregnant but it was a tumour on her pituitary gland - IIRC, I hope it's okay for you allhallows, It's good that they are actually checking you out thoroughly!

aloha · 18/10/2005 21:33

This is not a brain tumour! It probably isn't even a pituitary gland swelling. Please don't worry.

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allhallows · 18/10/2005 21:37

Never small-chested, I'm a megamomma now. I look like a joke. The pituitary is the "masterswitch" of the brain & located somewhere around the hypothalumus (please excuse spelling!). That's like way at the bottom & middle fo the brain... how the f**k would a surgeon get in there?

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bluebear · 18/10/2005 21:40

I know 2 women with this - one is a friend, the other is my bosses wife. Both treated easily and successfully with medication (no surgery) - think it was bromocriptin?

I also had a male friend with a different type of pituitary gland tumour which was operated on a couple of times - there was an incision at the side of his head, but they accessed it via his nose for his second operation.

aloha · 18/10/2005 21:41

If it came to surgery - if (it's unlikely) - this is a relatively simple procedure they do every day.

Mum2girls · 18/10/2005 21:41

have lived with this for 10 years, kept in check with drugs only - no surgery.

Blandmum · 18/10/2005 21:42

allhallows, this isn't the sort of thing that needs surgery....honestly! By mate takes a small amount of bromocriptane and has been totaly fine for 10 years!

This isn't a brain tumour in the way that most of us understand the term

Blandmum · 18/10/2005 21:43

of and they can access the pituatary( for other types of tumour) easily via the eye

Blandmum · 18/10/2005 21:43

oh and they can access the pituatary( for other types of tumour) easily via the eye

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