I went to the surgeon's office and was reassured by him that most of these turn out to be non-cancerous, but he scheduled an ultrasound. I went for the ultrasound and the technician, in an effort to reassure me, said it looked like a cyst to her. The radiologist agreed that it was most likely a cyst. After some discussion, it was decided that I would come back the next day and have it aspirated. I was very nervous and feared it would be painful.
Anticipation is usually always worse than reality.
The radiologist injected my breast with something to numb it, then inserted a needle to aspirate fluid. He was certain that it was a cyst since he was withdrawing fluid. I then had several mammograms and waited for the final report. I began to get nervous when the technician kept coming back and taking more pictures. After the tenth picture, I asked her what was going on.