lump in chest

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My son age 11 had an appointment today because he has a small mass/lump under

his left nipple.

The pediatrician said it could be hormone related, but since the hormones

involved come from the adrenal glands and we do so much to support the adrenal

glands, I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar with their

child?

If there are no changes we go back in a month for tests, but our Doctor feels

that as the hormones surge and then adjust (isn't puberty great) that the mass

could shrink back into the tissue on its' own.

I'm scheduling an appointment with Dr. Megson, our specialist, but I was curious

to learn of any similar situations or history in our group.

So much of what we do still isn't really mainstream and so our hurdles and

experiences fly under the radar. Any parent would worry, but when it's us, and

we already have immune compromised, somewhat health fragile children, all those

horrible warnings and statistics from the Doctors at UCLA start echoing in my

head.

I sit here and worry now that I was a bit cocky in my assumption that since so

many statistics and problems have been beaten by us, that my son would beat all

the statistics.

The improvements, the normalcy, the various groups that try to remove labels

from my son, the increase in IgA (an impossibility the Doctors said) fostered

such confidence in what we were doing.

A lump rears its' nasty little 1 cm by 1 cm self and I wonder, what goes on in

my child's body that we didn't know about? What didn't the bloodwork show?

After all, a decade ago no one really thought about Herpes 6, and yet treating

for that virus is really what I think allowed our son's immune system to start

to come back online. The blood tests show no improvement in IgA until we began

the antivirals combined with the Virastop, No Fenol, Digest Gold and various

vitamins. Then when you compare labs you see a direct correlation between Herpes

6 levels going down and IgA going up.

Is this lump just a swelling of tissue, that will go down?

Is this one of the auto immune pre-indicators that the UCLA Docs warned about?

Or is it a Herpes 6 like situation where we are part of a small group that has a

situation that needs to be treated and it's going to take our specialist back

East who has seen children with a similar situation and can treat it.

If anyone out there can say they've had anything similar and what we could be

looking at, I'd really appreciate a response.

Thank you