it wasn't the discomfort that stopped me going and getting my mammogram when the lump was 1st found back at the start of 2022 around Feb, it was the price!!! my then hopeless GP, that's another story for another day, Never told me I could go public, and wrote the referral for the mammogram to one of the many places here in Brisbane that had medi care bulk billing, but you had to pay everything up front and the gap you got back was small,(it was like a weeks rent worth payment up front) as I was only just 49 years old then, I had no idea to ask or even think if there was another way, and that I could not afford the imagining place I had been referred to, that there were other options, (like the public hospital) so I left it till the lump was bigger and more painful when sleeping on my side, around Nov of 2022 when I could finally scrap together the money and go and get the mammogram done, followed by a very expensive biopsy to confirm breast cancer, the rest is now history, as a big busted woman, I guess I'm a bit more luckier than mid to small busted people out there, I wouldn't say it hurt like hell, it certainly wasn't pleasant, something I wouldn't sign up for, but after having hook wires put in and then the mammogram day of surgery, that wasn't nice, nor the MRI guided biopsy and more clips and another mammogram. That hurt like hell too, I've often said it we had to put a males left testicle (as it was my left breast always being attacked) in these machines they may think twice on how we are treated. in fact I did day that to the radiologist (male) who was implanting the long hook wires into, on lets see how he would like this in his left testicle.
