Diana, you said: < and to use the ibuprofen since it had helped,  >. Did the
ibuprofen only relieve the pain or did it also lessen the swelling and the < it
feels like a band- like there are maybe 2 of those thick wide post office type
rubber bands under her skin- about an inch wide >?
I rather hesitate to advise the use of painkillers without educating the mom
that pain is just a sign of the body that something is wrong. One can kill the
pain, but that does not mean the damage or whatever was wrong is gone.
Did the calcifications coincide with the ''rubber-band-like'' area's? Could it
be those that hurt or press against surrounding tissue?

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium
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