Mammogram update...

[bcody]

Thankfully, not cancer, yet. I have complicated cysts that will need to be watched. I will have to go get squished every 4 -6 months from now on, but that is OK.

Last plead to everyone,

PLEASE GET YOUR YEARLY CHECKS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jesper]

I am glad it was a false alarm, my mom got breastcancer and it is very painful to witness how a strong happy woman can end up in a sulking bend state because of this. She keeps fighting but life is not treating her very well.

I agree, go get checked, better one too many times then one too little.

Jesper

Thankfully, not cancer, yet. I have complicated cysts that will need to be watched. I will have to go get squished every 4 -6 months from now on, but that is OK.

Last plead to everyone,

PLEASE GET YOUR YEARLY CHECKS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Marty]

HURRAY FOR THE ****IE SMASHER!!!!!!!!

I'm glad to hear the good news Barb!

 

[Triggy&Blue&Daisy Too]

Glad your results are OK. Same issue with me, I've had them for years and the first time they found something I was completely panicked!! Now I make them do an immediate read with the radiologist or I refuse to leave!!!

 

[sfmini]

Yup, had my tits in a wringer just last week. No results yet, they are hunting for my old ones to compare. I have to say, sure wish I had a man in my life, the markers for the nipples are hysterical, like little pink and purple band aides with a little metal stud at the tip. Oh what fun that would have been to share with someone! :new_shocked: :lol:

 

[Sunny]

Well, after the discussion we had on here a week or two ago about mammograms, I asked my doctor to book me for my first one, which was done last week. I go in on Tuesday for the results. We're not "expecting" to find anything since there's no history in my family, or anything like that, but I'm also well aware that there need not be any outward symptoms such as lumps, etc..

For any of you who still have not had a mammo done, perhaps out of fear of it hurting, I just want to say that it was faaaaar less unpleasant than I had expected. Wasn't fun, mind you, but well worth it.

BCody, thanks for encouraging everyone to have it done, and I'm soooo happy for you that it's not cancer!

 

[Marty]

[SIZE=36pt]JODY![/SIZE] :risa_suelos: :new_rofl: :new_rofl:

Why not go the full monty and get yourself a nipple ring?

 

[sedeh]

So glad to hear it was a false alarm! I was just looking at the calender and realized it was a year today that my mom had her breast cancer surgery(she's doing fine now). Hers got spotted on her yearly mammogram and if she wasn't so faithful about having it done who knows when she would have noticed a lump. As it was they were able to remove the tumer with a lumpectomy and then radiation.......much nicer than a mastectomy and chemo! So I am also a faithful to the **** squishing maching......and they have improved since the first time I had it done!

 

[Michelle@wescofarms]

Glad to hear it wasn't serious.

I keep telling my DR if men had to get their jewels checked that way - we'd have a better way for women to get checked! I actually don't think the regular check is all that bad - now the follow up with the strange angles and more compression - medieval torture device!

Mine is scheduled for March - oh joy!

 

[kaykay]

what great news!! im so happy for you

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[RobinRTrueJoy]

I am a breast cancer suurvivor, it will be 16 years this coming July. I was diagnosed on my 36th birthday. I am HAPPY to say that I will be 52 this year. Never thought that I would be here to say I will be 52 years old! Old is so much better than dead!

For those of you that are afraid to get a mammogram...its only ahard squeeze fpr a couple of minutes total, believe me, its not so bad.

Do your self breast exams every month too, don't just rely on your doctor to find something. YOU are the one that knows how your breasts are,YOU would notice a change.

By the way, my cancer was discovered on my first mammogram ever, and nothing was felt at all. I just got it into my head that I wanted a mammo done. Dr. said to wait till I was 40 but I asked him to just humor me and order it. Thank God he did, if not I would be dead by now.

 

[bcody]

Even after seeing the lumps on the exrays (Yes, I do know how to read them) I still can not feel them, they are about the size of an earser. Doctor can not feel them either, but we know they are there. I will be doing my self exam on a regular basis and never miss a mammo. I will have to have them read while I am there in case they need to do sonograms, but I can wait!It really is not as bad as people make it sound.

Unfortunatly, I still can not talk my older sister into going to get one, silly girl. If she wasn't on the other side of the country I would drag her in!

Thanks for al the support the past month.

Barb