Originally Posted by Vegas_Dave (Post 5430479)

Update Tuesday 1/27

After spending all day on the phone arguing with offices and receptionists etc... we finally made it into a breast specialist.

She said that she didnt think it was "likely" that it was IBC but seemed to base that solely on my wifes young age (26) and the fact that she was nursing. She felt that it was much more likely that the ER missed something on the ultrasound that they performed last week so she wanted to do her own ultrasound.

Well, just like in the ER, her ultrasound showed nothing. She still said that she felt "reasonably sure" that it wasnt IBC and guessed that it must be an infection related with nursing. She told my wife to stop breast feeding immediately and continue on the antibiotics because if there is bacteria in the milk, it gets reintroduced every time she nurses him.

Unfortunately, I was out of the room at this point as the 12 week old baby was fed up with the office as much as I was and so I was not there to dispute her and my wife didnt want to dispute as she was liking what she was hearing.

So for now, we are now in a holding pattern waiting for her milk to dry up to then see if the bacterial infection is what is really going on.

I still have a sick feeling in my gut about this and fear that we have just delayed the real issue with a dash of hope right now... my gut is usually as right as it is big... so a lot.

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Originally Posted by Vegas_Dave (Post 5452308)

Update 2/2

So a week ago we had the appointment where the doctor said she really did not think it was IBC (read last update).

A few days ago, we started to think we were seeing an improvements. The physical size of the rash/redness was still the same but it seemed to be fading in color - or so we thought.

At the follow up appointment this afternoon, the doctor said she wasnt seeing any improvement. Perhaps it had gotten redder from not nursing and then had gone back down to normal now that the milk is starting to dry up. Dunno.

She still stated that she didnt think it was IBC but did decide to finally do the biopsy.

So now we have to wait until Thursday for the biopsy results.

Originally Posted by Vegas_Dave (Post 5462075)

UPDATE 2/5

NO CANCER! Oh my gosh. They still dont know whats going on but the fact that the biopsy came back negative has us on cloud 9.

Thank you everyone for your support and prayers.