ENDO Messages for December, 2001: Re: Can Endo be in your chest?

Re: Can Endo be in your chest?

From: Marcia (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Dec 29 10:24:03 2001

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Hi Lori:

As the others have said, it is rare but possible, to have endo in the lungs. As to actually being in your breast tissue, I am unsure. I have never heard of a cyst in the breast being called a fibroid, but if your doctor told you, there must be such a thing. They are saying that there is nothing solid, because there is a certain echo pattern in your mammogram and ultrasound, that suggest a benign cyst. However, if that is the exact spot of where your pain is, around your time of the month when you are sensitive, I would advise you to insist to your doctor to have a biopsy done of the area, or at the least some testing. Only a biopsy will reveal the presence of endo, whether it be in the pelvis, or the lungs, or your back, or nerves or ligaments, or wherever (there have been extremely rare cases of it occurring in the brain as well), as this tissue tends to migrate (even though they cannot explain exactly why).

And you know, you might even want to go for the test to see if you actually do have a hiatal hernia...who knows, endo migrates....

~~Marcia~~

At Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Lori wrote: >
>I have had Endo symptoms in my back for years. It is somewhere around
>my kidneys or ureters, because my urine flow reduces down to a trickle
>every month the week after my period and my back kills me!!
>NOW...I am having a weird achy pain in the center of my chest that
>corrolates to the bad days I have w/my back.This is the 3rd month it has
>happened. It is directly in the center between my breasts at about
>nipple level. Could it be Endo there??
>I was just rushed through a mammogram and ultrasound last week for a
>large tender lump at the bottom of my breast, but they believe it's just
>a fibroid cyst, since they cannot find anything solid in the pictures.
>Can you have fibroids in the very center of your chest too? In the bony
>area?
>It's in the exact location a hiatel hernia is---but i think one of those
>would hurt all month long- not just at ovulation time and right b4 my
>period like this does.
> Thanks alot,
> Lori

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