Posted by Racer on October 1, 2004, at 15:37:12
In reply to Re: Only if... » Racer, posted by gardenergirl on October 1, 2004, at 12:47:03
It isn't any sort of big deal. Yes, it's not a lot of fun to stand there with your shirt off in front of a big machine, with someone you wouldn't want to see naked in return trying to make a pancake out of your boob. BUT it doesn't hurt, it's not all that uncomfortable -- besides the part about being topless in front of a stranger who doesn't have an MD after his or her name -- but it isn't something to be frightened of.
Did we talk about this? I had my first one last year, after a doctor found a lump. Then the second doctor found the same lump -- and another. The mammogram was just suspicious enough to require a follow up ultrasound -- which was actually worse for me than the mammogram -- and then the surgeon scared the you-know-what out of me by saying he thought I needed to do it all again in three months -- because, although the lumps already found didn't worry him, he found yet another that did!
That was scary.
Getting a mammogram is not scary. It's a rite of passage, like your first pelvic. Only not nearly so uncomfortable.
There. Now you won't worry so much, right?
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