Hi everyone, my name is Lizzie. I am a 31 yr old, married, mom of 2. In Oct 2012 I found a large mass in my rt breast. My breast surgeon was unsure of what was going on so on Dec 17th I had surgery. There were several masses with very think pus involved. She cleaned it all out and put me on extensive antibiotics. The results came back as Staph. Over the holidays I did large amounts of antibiotics, had a hospital stay and still the pain and masses were there. In January I had a picc line put in and did a month of IV antibiotics. Still no resolve. In March I had another surgery and more antibiotics. The masses went down a little but very slightly. When more masses formed beginning of April the diagnosis of infection was seeming less and less likely to be correct. I had yet another u/s done and the findings were inconclusive. So I had an MRI, still inconclusive. Then this past Thursday I had a biopsy done. They told me yesterday that I have GM. I'm kinda thinking that this was what it always was since the cultures never grew anything in all of the many tests I've done. I'm so tired of feeling awful and being poked and cut in my breast. I can't hug my kids on my right side, my husband can't touch my breast. I am feeling so done with this. From the looks of the steriod treatment isn't a great one. Having been dealing with this for nearly a year, I am gonna talk to the drs about a double mastectomy. I have found a dr in my area that has experience in this cause I don't think my current one does. I just feel like I can't spend the next few months/years of my small childrens life feeling awful. I don't want to miss it cause I am sick and if a mastectomy could help I am all for it. I am also high risk for breast cancer as well. So might as well get this time bombs taken off! Thanks for reading.