Went for my yearly mamorgram today. I know it's a great test
to check for Breast Cancer but, I wish they would invent something
that wouldn't feel like they were squeezing the life out of you.

Having the Fibro it just makes the pain worse. I am so sore now.
It will take me a couple of days for the pain to ease. I am always in pain and
this did not help.

I also about 15 yrs ago had surgery on the left breast. Since then
the breast has always been so much sorer then the right one. My milk
ducts were clogged. They were not sure what it was until they went in.

Does anyone else have a problem when they go for this test?


Jappy

I've never had one. I've had the usual exams by the Doc, but no machine clamping down on my breast.

I have read, that the MRI is a better indicator than the clamp??

Feel Better, Joyce..

I feel for you!

I have my own ordeal booked for the end of this month, but it won't be anywhere as bad as the time I was in the squasher for several hours while they tried unsucessfully to biopsy a breast lump that they'd found.

The lump was way back towards the chest wall, hence the trouble they had getting to it. I ended up having to go to hospital to have it removed. The lump was benign, but being where it was in the breast, had it been malignant I probably would not have felt it until it was a well advanced cancer.

With that in mind, I feel it's worth the discomfort to know there are no more lumps hiding in there.

Yeah, I pretty much hate them. My feeling is that the test was designed by a woman hating male. Rationale: no man would allow a portion of HIS anatomy to be squashed to 1/4" thickness between two plates of glass.

UN-COM-FORT-ABLE!!!

We have Digital mammograms in some places now (don't know how old the technology is though), and although they still squish too hard, they are at least WAY quicker.

I haven't had a mammogram in 6 yrs now as I have one very sensitive breast due to fibroids or something. I'm always checked by my doc, but he respects my decision (so far) to not have recent testing. I think I might this year though.

Cherie

Here is one link to MRI imaging for breast cancer I was referring to...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/08/09...eut/index.html