My pain doesn't hurt anymore:) (OLD) "RN"

SCORE!!!! found another one! I want these so that I remember where I was, when! YAY!!! This was posted about 2 weeks ago:)

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Yep, the last 4 days or so...This is kind of hard to describe but I'll give it a shot...I've had fibrocystic breast disease for years, in one breast. Here's a good description of FBD:



//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=853703#i



"In the New England Journal of Medicine, July 22, 2005 issue, there was a lead article showing that benign breast changes in women are associated with Breast Cancer . Benign breast changes is a new term for what we have called fibrocystic breast disease (FBD) in the past. FBD is currently affecting about 84 percent of the female population in North America.2 FBD is a misnomer because the medical problem is not a disease in the strictest sense. It is more a problem of cyclic breast pain that is associated with the menstrual cycle. In some patients the breast pain is seen daily, regardless of their menstrual cycle. Tissue biopsy for these benign breast changes that do grow larger are called proliferative lesions and if they do not grow they are called non-proliferative lesions.

Non-proliferative lesions (non-growers) can include cyst of the breast, radial scars, apocrine cells which generally make up sweat glands—the breasts are classified as a modified sweat gland—fibroadenoma, and hyperplastic cells that are normal in appearance under the microscope but are more numerous than usual. Proliferative lesions with normal cells are called sclerosing adenosis, which have a slightly increased risk (1.5 to 2 times). There are proliferative lesions with abnormal or atypical cells that are called hyperplasia—high degree with a moderate increased risk of Breast Cancer of (4 to 5 times), lobular neoplasia and intraductal papilloma. As a rule in medicine, the more abnormal cells look under the microscope, i.e., the more atypical the cells look, the higher the risk of cancer being present."

Mmmm-kay, this is what MY pain has been like, over time..Swollen, heavy-feeling tender breasts the week before my period. Little shooting pains and the sensation of "fireworks", in the breast that has cystic tissue. Occasional twinges & shooting pain mid-cycle.

I started Iodine supplementation on February 8th so I am now about 6 weeks into it. Around March 1st, I noticed a softening of my breast tissue and about 2 weeks ago, I was experiencing some REALLY deep pain, stabbing pain, more "pain"-full than anything I'd experienced before...according to all I've read, I can expect ALL pain to be gone within 1-3 mos. of Iodine supplementation. Well, 4 days ago, March 21, my pain changed, again. There is a feeling of activity in the area, a "pre"-pain sensitivity of tissue...but, no pain. It's a feeling of energy in the area, kind of an electrical current, that's the best that I can describe it. And the cystic area on my breast is dissolving, losing form. I have(had) 2 cysts that I can feel, they're losing definition...:) And, my breasts are getting smaller, NO longer feel heavy. They have felt to be too big for awhile now, they're on their way back to feeling just right:)

It's WORKING!!!!!!!! I'm sooooooo happy...:)
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