mammograms

[silver]

Velogirl, I hope the visit goes well for you. And I hope they give you lots of info.

This is a little bit of a threat highjack but I was wondering if it were more or less painful for larger breasted gals? I'm not well endowed, to put it mildly, and well, I don't dig that whole mash thing. It's like the xray tech has to gather then smash. So would it be easier to xray someone with more meat on them in the breast area?

I answered this in another thread. I found the two mammograms that I had pre-implants to be HORRIBLE. but the one after was pleasant. I was very flat chested with tight skin across my chest. It appeared that the technician was trying to scrap skin up from my legs to smoosh between the plates. I left with red streaks all over my chest from my collarbones to my navel. Afterwards, no problem.

[velogirl]

thanks, everyone! I had my call-back today and they did another mammogram and an ultrasound. apparently I have a bunch of liquid-filled cysts in my breasts and the ones in my right breast create a pretty large mass -- not uncommon for someone my age.

the good news is now we have a baseline.

and BikerZ, thank you for the healthcare tip -- I'll definitely look into it.

Lorri

[bmccasland]

Yaaayyy!!!! So glad to hear smushed things weren't anything major to worry about.

[KnottedYet]

HOT doggies!!!!

[snapdragen]

Excellent news! It sound like you have the same issue I have.

[maillotpois]

Yay - what a relief!

[RoadRaven]

Great news Velogirl, glad all that stressing is sorted and they got you in well before Christmas

Now... lots of arnica is in order I would imagine...?