tips for better mammogram?

**ny biker** · 10-31-2011, 10:08 AM

Relax. Tense muscles can make it harder to get everything in the right position.

I find them painful, but the pain only lasts a couple of seconds. They loosen the plates as soon as they get the image.

**Triskeliongirl** · 10-31-2011, 10:49 AM

Take an OTC pain killer before you go in.

**Grits** · 10-31-2011, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Triskeliongirl

Take an OTC pain killer before you go in.

+1. 45 min. or so before mammogram.

**Jones** · 10-31-2011, 11:16 AM

Don't panic when they call you back. Almost everyone gets called back after their first Mammogram because there is no base line.

**redrhodie** · 10-31-2011, 11:28 AM

Thanks! I actually made the appointment because I found a lump, so I'm already getting an ultrasound as well, so hopefully, that will be all. I'm pretty sure it's a cyst (the NP didn't think it looked like cancer), but I'd better not put this off any longer.

**indysteel** · 10-31-2011, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by redrhodie

Thanks! I actually made the appointment because I found a lump, so I'm already getting an ultrasound as well, so hopefully, that will be all. I'm pretty sure it's a cyst (the NP didn't think it looked like cancer), but I'd better not put this off any longer.

I went through that a few years back--and mine ended up being a water-filled cyst. I hope you have a similarly benign outcome. Please keep us posted.

**redrhodie** · 10-31-2011, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by indysteel

I went through that a few years back--and mine ended up being a water-filled cyst. I hope you have a similarly benign outcome. Please keep us posted.

Good to know that yours was okay! I will keep you posted. I know it's nothing, but if it is something, it's small.

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