Forum Discussion
- Go @jj70 Looking and sounding good!
Regarding the clinics...I didn't see too much difference in the style of the ones portrayed and where I went. The Breastscreen clinic I went to was in a shopfront (well...at the back), it was clean and simply (almost) elegant in a medical type way, with an emphasis on pink. Everyone was quietly friendly and pleasant and the woman on the machine (never sure whether to call them mammographers or radiographers?) was lovely and gentle and took on board how scared I was of the pain from memory of an earlier experience. She also noticed something she thought was not quite right and took extra film - she saved my life. - I was large breasted and never found them painful. The Breastscreen I went to was dingy, shabby and ugly. I was given gowns that didn't fit properly, made to wait on an uncomfortable bench, could overhear techs talking about women with cancer, and was greeted by an unsmiling receptionist both times.
Ultimately it makes no difference. The machines find a cancer or they don't, but I am affected by environment, by aesthetic. I would have appreciated some polite reassuring demeanours, a comfortable waiting environment, a fresh coat of paint, something pleasant and non-stressful to look at, not having to carry my clothes around in a plastic basket and newish gowns that fit correctly. If anything makes it more likely that women would attend regularly rather than putting it off, I'm all for it. - Ohhh I agree, nothing about 'glamming it up' would make a difference getting a mammogram. I'm big breasted and they have always hurt, but I've been doing them for something like 13yrs. The irony for me though?? I was perfectly fine for about 3yrs?? and then all of a sudden I had DCIS? hmmm so was it early screening and being on top of it that I was lucky? or was doing mammos yearly an issue?? I laugh about it now, but it has made me wonder over the years. It is something lots of radiographers talk about, Ive not thought too hard, but interesting in that its a topic.
- For those of us with very small breasts, mammograms are not uncomfortable. They really hurt.
I am grateful that, because I have an implant in my non-cancerous breast, I am not allowed to have mammograms. - And our very own wonderful @JJ70 in this terrific series of community service announcements for BreastScreen WA:
https://www.breastscreen.health.wa.gov.au/Newsroom/BreastScreen-WA-launches-new-video-campaign-on-social-media - This article is a joke, right? Nothing can make having a mammogram appealing.
It is nothing like having your teeth cleaned, which is not torture. - My mum died when she was 67 years old from the effects of Alzheimer's disease.
- Yay!!! (said sarcastically)
- Like the writer, this scares the proverbial out of me as well.
https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/a-possible-link-between-menopause-and-alzheimer-s-is-scaring-women-including-me-20190605-p51usp.html
