One evening I notices a sharp shooting pain in my breast. Ouch painful like a needle was poked into me. The next morning when I woke the pain had increased 10 fold. I couldn't move without pain in my breast. Terrified as any women would be about such a pain I tried to look up causes of this. Breast cancer can help but flood the mind of a person in this type of pain. Two days of utter missory I had used ice packs on my breast to numb the pain. temporary relief at best. I began to feel ill all over my body. Something wrong with me and I was going to give it at best another day before I called my doctor. I had switched from the ice packs to a heating pad. All the sudden it began to seep a green fluid. That in and of itself terrified me more. My God I cried is it gang green or something... Apparently I had a mammary duct that was infected and blocked. Draining began the road to relief.. All that pain from that infection in there... I put an antibiotic cream on myself in the hope it would heal.. I never in my life knew about such a thing but reading up on it online it's not as uncommon as I thought. Mammary duct ectasia Mammary duct ectasia occurs when a milk duct beneath the nipple becomes dilated and filled with fluid. The milk duct can then become blocked or clogged with a thick, sticky substance. I was well aware that if it didn't self resolve I was in need of a doc visit but last resort as I hate going to the doctor and will do about anything to avoid it.. On a mammogram that infection can be misstaken for Cancer and prompt a biopsy which I'm more then thankful I didn't have to go through b/c I'd have been a total mess at the thought of it even if the end result would be a infection I'd have worried myself to death.. Lucky certainly that it drained and healed on it's own.. It was frightening to see a green thick fluid comming out of my nipple. The pain If elt was horrific. Clothes touching me forced me to wear a sports bra 24/7 but as any women knows yo brush up against things or arms brush against you in ways you are most aware of when it caused horrific seering pains. I felt as if I had dodged a bullet in a major way over this knowing it could have gotten worse or not drained and required a surgery to drain it. I feel 100% better now and next time if and God forbid I hope not there is another experience such as this I wont hesitate going to the doctor or ASAP.. Ironic thing is as I explained this to a close friend I made mention it reminded me of breast feeding pain with engorged breasts and I suppose infection in that very milk duct was why I could relate to what it felt like..