Painful Mammogram

Oh, also meant to say that you can time the mammo around a better part of your period cycle. Don`t get it when you`re at the sore and achey breast part. (Or is that when they want to do it?)

CAR,  About all I can offer is I've had good mammos and bad ones.  I finally asked a tech who gave me a good mamo about the situation, and she said it partly depended on the tech.  See, they push a button for the glass to lower automatically, but from what I remember, the tech has to stop it before it gets too tight up in there.  Well, I had one who apparently forgot I was standing on my tip-toes waiting for the glass thing to reach melting point, and I had to scream for her to wake up and stop it.  I told her to take that glass thing off, I couldn't take the pain, and I also told her I was not comfortable standing on my toes.  Well, I get a good tech later, and she said I shouldn't have had to stand on my toes, and that the glass thing is supposed to be paid attention to and stopped before it gets too tight.  I HONESTLY thought at one point it was the stupid mammo that screwed up the boob that ended up getting cancer in it a few years later.  Of course, since then, I've thought it was a lot of things, but no one knows what causes the fool thing.

You know, you COULD talk to your cancer doc from before and tell him about the situation.  They do mammos at their offices, as well as scans.  COULD BE they can just do a scan, perhaps, where nothing gets compressed, or an ultrasound like BARBE gets.  I just don't think you should have another mammo, particularly with all this pain in there for two years.  Also, the cancer doc can ultrasound it, to make sure nothing oddball is going on in there causing pain, and maybe that ultrasound will take the place of a mammo.  I'd ask a doc about it, for sure.