Why a mammogram and not a sonogram? Two years ago, when I had a suspicious
lump (heavy duty B.C. history in my family) I was send for a sono. The
reasoning my doctor gave me that lactating breasts gave a lot of false
positives with a mammogram and sono was better. Luckily the lump turned out
to be benign.
All the best.

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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:15 AM, natalie hessell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am posting with permission for a mother who recently had a mammogram.
>  She is
> currently bf her 5th child, age 3.  The mammogram was just routine, no lump
> was
> felt, and she currently can feel no lump.  The results were "abnormal"
> because a
> dense area was detected on 1 breast.  Would I be correct in thinking that
> her
> age (40) and the fact that she is bf could lead to the breast tissue being
> more
> dense, than say a nonlactating older woman?  I do not know whether the
> person
> reading the mammogram knew if she was bf, but the person ordering it did.
>  Now
> she is scheduled to have a compression mammogram and is unsure about going
> through with it, mainly because she feels there isn't likely a problem and
> she
> will have to pay for the test, as she had already had to pay for the 1st.
> Unless there is something that she is not being told, I am wondering why
> she
> could not watch to area and have the mammogram repeated later and note any
> changes, perhaps bf child right before the test too, and making sure it is
> read
> by someone familiar the lactating breast.
>
>
> Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated,
>
> Natalie Hessell
> LLL, CLC
>
>
>
>
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