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I say this as someone who's gone through countless mammograms, ultrasounds, an attempted Mammotome, surgical removal of fibrous cysts, numerous aspirations of fluid-filled cysts, and two biopsies.
Your cysts sound like (I'm not a doctor, just going on my own experience) the fluid-filled ones -- mine looked like black amoebas on the ultrasound screen. Did they tell you if they are? Those are easy to deal with; they aspirate the fluid with a needle (it's really not too bad, unless you have large ones, which take a while). The cysts themselves can cause discomfort, and I've had one mammogram that was unbelievably painful because of cysts.
If you have "dense" breasts, they may have trouble reading your mammograms. That was my case, and I had two biopsies in the same spot because of clustered calcifications. I now regret doing that, because I've got a painful scar and a dent, and because the experience itself was fairly unpleasant, especially given that I was fine but felt as if I would be diagnosed with cancer any minute. I actually stopped going back for followups because I felt it was making me act like I was always on the brink of disaster, when in fact I was well. And after having difficult-to-read mammograms for 25 years, I'm just going to go with ultrasounds, which they always seek after every mammogram I have. It's not a perfect arrangement, but I feel I get a net negative effect with mammograms, and I'm willing to take the risk (for now; I do plan to have a mammogram about once every three years).
Did they want to aspirate or remove cysts? Do they want you to go back for mammograms or for ultrasounds? You may want to have any fluid-filled cysts aspirated BEFORE a mammogram to avoid my experience when I saw God (most painful mammogram I have ever had; I was actually doubled over trying to breathe for 5 minutes -- and I was already VERY used to mammograms).
Good luck.
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