Mammograms! I hate going for Mammograms.
I dont think there is anything that freaks me out more than my yearly mammogram. The fear is overwhelming even though I have had 11 years of normal mammograms after my stage 1 breast cancer. It is incredible how something so life saving can simply cause immense stress and anxiety for me.Chalk up the shortage of mammogram technicians, I have a three week wait for the appointment.
Any suggestions? Any one feel the same? If so, how do you cope?
I suppose wine would help 
Lola
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Would it help you to think of mammograms as routine preventive maintenance, like taking your car in for oil and filter changes? That works for me, along with other imaging.
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I just had my second mammogram yesterday from finishing treatment. I feel like I was handled pretty roughly and I am still really sore today. She took a lot of photos too probably three times as many as I had last time, last year I only had 4 taken, I even asked her if the protocol had changed and she said no. Yesterday I dealt with sharp stinging from my left breast nipple (the one that had cancer). and today my left breast is swelling more (lympth) I have had a lot of mammograms in the last 20 years and especially since breast cancer and I have never hurt this bad nor felt like I was being miss treated.
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