Re: Fibrocystic disease of breast (lumpy to you and me)

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too developed fibrocystic disease of the right breast.

This seemed to go on for years and I had loads of mamograms resulting at the

end of the day of me having an appointment with the great man at Bradford Royal

Infirmary. I was, at that time, extremely worried and had made up my mind I had

breast cancer, but it turned out to be this disorder. The relief was immense,

but why, oh why is it that doctors are not taught about the connection between fibrocystic

disease of the breast and symptoms of hypothyroidism. They need to learn so

much and are so lacking in knowledge that it really is quite frightening, a

word I realise I am coming to mention more and more of late. My sister also had

fibrocystic disease, and she, years later was found to be suffering with

hypothyroidism.

Luv - Sheila

I'm just completing

medical questionnaire for Dr P and looking down my medical records print out

from my surgery (Freedom of Information Act) I see under 'Diseases or

Operations' 1982 Fibrocystic disease of breast.... I didn't know what that

meant, nor did I remember, so googled and found that it is quite common and

says:

" The cause of fibrocystic breast changes isn't completely understood. But

the condition is likely associated with hormone fluctuations during a woman's

menstrual cycle "

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fibrocystic-breast-changes/AN00715

Mmmm, I thought, let's google " Fibrocystic disease of breast and

hypothyroidism " Yep, there it is:

" It is not a coincidence that women who are hypothyroid usually have

fibrocystic breasts. Iodine deficiency is a body-wide condition. If your

thyroid is lacking in iodine, so are your breasts. "

http://www.1-thyroid.com/fibrocysticbreastdisease.htm

Amazing, as I look down my medical history it seems that every minor or major

symptoms has been down to this condition, just amazing!

Jackie x

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Wow Sheila, all that worry (and all that x-ray radiation) for you which was so unnecessary !  I've not looked up to a Doctor for many years, but sadly some people hang onto their every word.  Scary !!!  A great relief for you though :)On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Sheila <sheila@...> wrote:

 

 too developed fibrocystic disease of the right breast.

This seemed to go on for years and I had loads of mamograms resulting

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why, oh why is it that doctors are not taught about the connection between fibrocystic disease of the breast and symptoms of hypothyroidism

Hi Sheila,

I had all this as well. My mother died of BC in both breasts at 51. One day I typed "hypothyroidism" and "breast disease" into the google search engine and I found www.optimox.com. This site has an "iodine (research?)" page where there are over 20 publications dealing with the work of the Iodine Project. Dr Guy Abrahams and Dr Brownstein have been using iodine to treat hypothyroidism and breast disease since the 1990s. Dr A is a gynecologist/obstetrician/endocrinologist who has had a distinguished career in research and won two prizes for it. He was part of the UCLA. His protocol, the Iodine Protocol, is a great treatment for breast disease and is the only way that I know of that iodine can be absorbed into the body when the patient is hypothyroid, without causing a Hashi attack. He has an impeccable reputation and no one has been able

to demolish his work in spite of Dr Alan Gaby's (thyroid big wig in USA) attack in the Townsend Letter to Doctor and Patients.

The papers on the optimox site can be downloaded and printed out to be given to doctors.

I agree that it is shocking that the link between thyroid disease and breast disease is not well known to doctors. They should be ashamed. I think that if someone like me with only a biology "O" level can find this out on their own, they should be able to!

I have been taking this treatment for over two years with no Hashi attack, inspite of the doom that I was promised by my doctor and specialist. I no longer have oestrogen dominance, my nodules and cysts have stopped growing and started to shrink, my Hashi ABs are down.

MacGilchrist

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Hi Jackie,

I suffered with many lumps in my breasts for years and years and had to have a couple of them aspirated and one removed - calcified lump..................I had 12 lumps in each breast at one time and when I had a scan not long ago after being on thyroid meds I was told what lumps - your breasts as clear. I said to the radiographer - OMG - I don't believe it - I told her I was on thyroxine and she said Ah ha - another success story for thyroxine.

I rest my case

Best wishes

Mandy

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this was because I had breast fed the babies!

That is and isn't true. Breast feeding should not lead to lumps so numerous! In fact it should soften breast tissue. However, breast feeding depletes the iodine in the body and probably the breast is one of the first places to suffer the loss. Lack of iodine leads to lack of cell death (apoptosis) which leads to cysts, nodules, goitres, moles, growths of all sorts and cancer.

I have only had one child and I breast fed him for nearly six months. I had so many cysts it probably accounted for almost 50% of my breast volume before I started taking iodine. I don't think it was due to breast feeding, I had quite a few before.

MacG.

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Yup. absolutely Jackie. The thyroid (and its hormones) is far reaching in its effects on the body. xx

I'm just completing medical questionnaire for Dr P and looking down my medical records print out from my surgery (Freedom of Information Act) I see under 'Diseases or Operations' 1982 Fibrocystic disease of breast.... I didn't know what that meant, nor did I remember, so googled and found that it is quite common and says:"The cause of fibrocystic breast changes isn't completely understood. But the condition is likely associated with hormone fluctuations during a woman's menstrual cycle"http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fibrocystic-breast-changes/AN00715Mmmm, I thought, let's google "Fibrocystic disease of breast and hypothyroidism" Yep, there it is:" It is not a coincidence that women who are hypothyroid usually have fibrocystic breasts. Iodine deficiency is a body-wide condition. If your thyroid is lacking in iodine, so are your

breasts."http://www.1-thyroid.com/fibrocysticbreastdisease.htmAmazing, as I look down my medical history it seems that every minor or major symptoms has been down to this condition, just amazing!Jackie x

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HI SHEILA AND ALL

When I had breast cancer which included three ops ending with a masectomy, it

mentions " FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE " .

Could this mean that cancer was wrongly diagnosed having been put through and

pulled down by undergoing three ops, or that FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE causes

breast cancer.

Having also had blood tests for cholesterol and thyroid on returning home from a

day out today I have a letter asking me to go and discuss my test results, so I

have an appointment for Thursday.

My Brother's throat cancer is attached to his main artery in his neck, and to

have surgery will cause him to bleed to death. They have managed too shrink it a

little with antibiotics, but its only buying him time. The tumour is fast

growing and possibly due to having a good blood supply to feed from, but they

say that it has spread from the bladder. Mine too was in the right breast.

Kathleen

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> too developed fibrocystic disease of the right breast. This seemed to go on

> for years and I had loads of mamograms resulting at the end of the day of me

> having an appointment with the great man at Bradford Royal Infirmary. .

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> Luv - Sheila

>

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HI SHEILA

When they did the masectomy no cancer was found, and all they found was " Focal

Fibrocystic Disease " ( does the word FOCAL make a difference).

The first operation was for a Grade 2 Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma of no

special type, part was OR positive, but the bulk OR negative.

The second OP was for a grade 1 OR positive,which I was informed was pre-cancer,

and it was evident on the original JARVIS MAMMOGRAM.

Three years before this there was no cancer shown on a mammogram, so cancer can

suddenly arrive or it can come and go. My former GP said that cancer cells can

come and go.

I think that they may be doing too many operations for cancer that may well go

away on their own, but operating may well cause cancer to be worse. The

machinary used to detect cancer is getting so good that it can detect a single

cell that may well not be a problem.

At times I think a watch and wait approach may well be best.

I have also had three scares with the remaining breast, but it was not cancer.

Kathleen

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> I doubt the breast cancer was wrongly diagnosed Kathleen.