Benign Breast Lumps


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    Strict abstention from caffeine, including chocolate, dissolved the benign lump in my breast in 6 weeks, just before it was supposed to be removed surgically. I was aware of the lump in my left breast for years. That was years ago at a time before anyone talked about breast self-examination and before physicians checked our breasts for lumps routinely. I only found out that I had the lump because it hurt, not just to the touch, but constantly. I finally asked my family physician about it. He insisted that I must have injured my breast by falling on something. I was not convinced by his explanation, because I would have remembered the occurrence of such a painful injury. An x-ray revealed that the lump was not malignant. That was good news. It did, however, bother me constantly, and I was scheduled to have it removed surgically.

Solution from a Newspaper Advice Column

    Two months before the scheduled surgery, I stumbled across a physician's advice column in the Winnipeg Tribune, one of our daily newspapers. The physician connected caffeine with benign breast lumps and urged abstention as a cure. I was as unconvinced by that theory as by that of the injury, because I had not drunk coffee or black tea for years, ever since I was told that I was a menace on the road after one single cup of coffee. That had been enough incentive for me to swear off both of these caffeinated drinks forever. I did, however, enjoy the odd piece of good German dark chocolate. The caffeine in chocolate and green tea appears to be in a different chemical form, because neither of them have any noticeable effect on me. I certainly have no problem falling asleep immediately after eating chocolate. Nevertheless, as a last resort I could see no harm in putting the advice in the physician's column to the test. I strictly refrained from ingesting any and all forms of caffeine, including that delicious German dark chocolate. When I am convinced that something is bad for my health, I have no problem abstaining from it, no matter how good it tastes.

Problem Solved

    Two weeks before the scheduled surgery and six weeks after the beginning of my experiment, I had a final pre-surgery checkup. The lump had vanished. The pain was gone. The surgery was cancelled. Both the lump and the pain had been with me for many years, and I felt a great relief.
   

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10.   Apr 16, 2005 8:01 AM
I didn't realize there was a connection to caffeine.

-- posted by jerrib


9.   Apr 15, 2005 1:34 PM
I just finished writing a long reply to your posting, Pat, and decided that it should be published in an article where more people will profit from the information. So here it is:


8.   Apr 14, 2005 9:57 PM
I was recently diagnosed with diabetes and am now in the habit of reading labels. It’s amazing what you can find on a label. I also suffer from migraines. Someone once told me it was from drinking too ...

-- posted by StrmDncr


7.   Jul 22, 2003 8:53 PM
I was about the same age when I first noticed the lump in my breast.

I can only repeat what the doctor told me, and that is that malignant lumps don't hurt whereas benign ones do. If the lump turn ...


-- posted by biogardener


6.   Jul 22, 2003 3:44 PM
4 years ago I had a fibroadanoma (sp) in my right breast. Nothing came of the whole ordeal and its been there all this time, no big deal. I found yet another mass in the same breast right behind the ...

-- posted by sbauer220





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