dread, Dread, DREAD

sandra - So are you reading a book, watching a movie, or surfing the internet? Don't worry - this too shall pass!

Surfing the internet and reading the Sunday newspaper. I will be so happy when this is over. Everyone should do it during Christmas! What a way to celebrate! :rolleyes:

Hang in there, kiddo! :p

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Originally Posted by bike4ever

Don't worry - this too shall pass!

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Yes, "this" and everything else!! :p

A lady doctor and med professor I know wrote a med journal "article" once that was a spoof. Actually got it published. It was a recommendation that all men have regular ballograms. All the text was quoted directly from mammogram info given to women or published in med journals, just with mammo changed to ballo and she to he throughout. Stuff like the frequency of cancers (similar), age they strike and are most deadly (similar), and then the cautions about pain, about possible iatrogenic damage from contusions and x-ray exposure, about the occasional accident where the plates smash too hard together and get stuck. Even as a woman reading that piece I really had to cringe. :eek: I know it's still remembered well in feminist circles. Wonder what impression it made on medical men.

Sandra, I wonder how you are doing?

I had a colonscopy years ago, and remember the prep to be HORRIBLE, the procedure no big deal, but I got sick afterwards while trying to leave. Pretty much collapsed on the way out. I had to drink that gallon of stuff and thought I'd never get it down.

BUt I was so glad to have a squeaky clean colon! :rolleyes:

Now mammograms are another story. My first two were before I got my implants. They were HORRIBLE! I had nothing to put between the plates. The techs pulled and pulled at my skin to try to get something to put between there. I had red streaks all over my chest for a couple fo days and it was VERY painful! I told the tech that it was hurting and she was spiteful! She told me to wait and then came back and said she didn't get get enough. And proceeded to try to ply even more skin between the plates.

But the mammogram that I had since my implants was a piece of cake. She had to take a few more slides, but apparently since the implants actually project from my body it was fairly easy to get something between the plates. :rolleyes:

Well, it's over. I'll take the prep any day. And the procedure was a breeze, BUT I started throwing up as soon as they rolled me into recovery and have been sick all day. Finally DH called them back and was able to get some medicine for the nausea. I'm just now feeling a little better buy have not been able to eat or drink yet.

I guess I had a reaction to the anesthesia. I've never had any surgery or been put to sleep, so this was a first for me. It was awful.

Sandra,

Glad it's over for you. Been thinking about you. Hope the nausea goes away quickly now that you have meds.

Cindy

Sandra, I'm so glad your ordeal is over. :( Poor thing!

Silver- I've had one mammogram and because I am pretty small chested (and was smaller still then) I remember it being awful too, as they had to pull whatever you had way out and than clamp it under the plates like a vise to get an image. Nasty!! And painful. :mad:
Soon they will use a different system for getting images instead , which are not painful at all, and way more accurate. But not until they get the fgunding to replace the old mammogram machines with the newer technology. :(

I don't know if they still do, but they used to recommend you get your first mammo at 35. I'm sorry, but I was still perky 10 years ago! Now that they're all stretched out, it's not so horrible. ;)

I sent my friend a birthday card that said, "For my 21st birthday I got a tattoo of a rose on my breast. Now, it's long-stemmed."

Karen

Sandra - Bummer about the nausea! I've been under 9 times myself and get sick every single time. :o

BTW - When they tell you it's ok to eat crackers...they don't mean Cheez-its. :shudder

Wow, so glad it's over! I hope you are feeling better soon. Bummer that it was all a breeze and NOW you aren't feeling well.:(

Sandra, I hope that you're feeling better now with the meds. That's what happened to me afterwards too. I'll bet that tomorrow you'll feel good.

Lisa S. H. yes, that was definately the scenario that I experienced! I thought she was going to have my b*tt cheeks in there! ;)

Honestly, I don't know how the plastic surgeon managed to squeeze the implants in. :rolleyes:

Tuckervill, right, I had my first at 35. However, I wasn't perky yet. :p Then I had my next one just prior to the implant surgery (the surgeon required it). I was 39. Then I've had one since then. I'm not sure what the reason for that one was. It was last year, age 41. Maybe they wanted a new baseline with the implants?

Sandra - I hope you are feeling better today. I've never had issues with anesthesia just pain meds.

Ironically I received in the mail yesterday my reminder that it is time for my mammogram. The letter said anytime after Dec 22. I laughed at that - since I have no life right now it will have to wait until January.

if general anesthesia makes you nauseated, be sure to tell the drs anytime you get it. all they have to do is add an anti-emetic in the mix and you should be fine. my first words coming out of the anesthesida after my knee surgery, i grabbed the anesthesiologist by the scrubs and yelled - did i get my anti-emetic!!!?!? he cracked up. but i felt fine! i didn't want the nausea on top of everything else. :)

working in the oncology field, very glad to hear of all the folks doing their preventive screenings. :D

CRAP. I have felt like I was run over by a truck all day. I started running FEVER this afternoon and now my fever is 100.7. This is not normal.

aw, Sandra, bummer. Take care. keep in touch with your doctor. Fever is NOT GOOD. (Make sure you're not dehydrated!)