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Welcome sweaty and Piss listeners.

This is Karen Nickel, nurse practitioner, and I'm here to answer a listener question.

And I hope these are helpful for you and we get lots of questions on the Facebook page.

So I'm trying to go through them one by one.

I did get a question from Lauren,

and she was asking about breast cysts, and if there's anything you can do to alleviate. And she'd recently had a

recently had a assist, a breast cyst,

a breast cyst aspirated, which means someone takes a syringe, and they insert the needle into

the cyst and they pull the fluid out of the cyst so that it will flatten the cyst.

Because lots of times they become pretty uncomfortable when they become large.

So she just had this done and was interested in how maybe she could prevent having to go through that experience again.

So first of all, breast cysts are fluid-filled round or oval masses in the breast.

Usually they feel a little rubbery,

like a little rubbery egg in there.

Sometimes they can be harder and stiffer,

but most of the time they're they feel like a little egg in the breast and they will often be tender

if they're really large especially and so a large tender mass will often bring women

into the office for evaluation to see what that what's going on there which is the appropriate thing to do.

And they occur most often in pre-minopausal women versus post-minopausal women

primarily because they are pretty

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