'Mammograms hurt' column draws ire -- OrlandoSentinel.com

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Gail Perry wrote:

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I didn't say that.
What the RESEARCH says is that even one drink a day can contribute to the growth of one type of breast cancer -- hormone sensitive breast cancer. That's what I had, so I rarely drink. I didn't drink much before because I just couldn't afford the calories but now I really think three times. However, I do have an occasional glass of wine.
I completely disagree that any doctor I have ever met would prefer profits to a cure. Yes, they make a lot of money, but they earn it.
There will never be "a" cure to "cancer" because cancer is just a TYPE of disease. There are thousands of different kinds. Each one has its own treatment in one way or another. They won't "cure" "breast cancer" tomorrow but maybe they'll find a cure -- or even better, a prevention, for one subtype. Then they can start on the next subtype.
Saying you have cancer is like saying you have heart or lung disease. There are many kinds of heart and lung diseases with many different causes and many different solutions.
For those with a history of hormone sensitive breast cancer, they're much better off not drinking.

yeah i know all this, was just feeling annoyed that there never seems to be any real progress in cancer. and yes i know there are so many different ones, i dont really blame the doctors i actually meant that a cure for cancer would take away many jobs in the medical field.
its just all frustrating and makes a person feel so helpless..

sorry guess i was just in a mood yesterday. didnt mean to upset u or anything. its an upsetting subject and can make a person feel real anger at times.
take care, best of luck too.
:)

[Rina]

I keep having yearly mammograms because of my mother dying of breast cancer. I find the procedure so painful that I consider it barbaric.I always end up in tears. What hurts the most is the lack of understanding by the medical profession and by the female operators who dismiss my anxiety with comments like "you are very unusual". I too had four children naturally and I know the meaning of pain. However I will have to put up with the pain,the bruising and the insensitive remarks until a better test is available.

[Gail Perry]

Rina, insist on a digital, or "diagnostic," mammogram. You need to be getting it somewhere else. It's the center that is at fault, not you and not even the test.

[reallymensfaults omehow]

Gail Perry - "I'll tell ya what. If the test to detect testicular cancer was to slap men's private parts on to a glass plate and squash them -- they'd find a better way."
About the eighth time you've said this. There isn't actually a ban on women inventing things you know, if you're so convinced that mammography is some kind of dreadful male trick designed deliberately to hurt, feel free to get on and come up with something better. And if you imagine that somehow medical treatment or screening for diseases that affect men are painless, think again.

[Gail Perry]

reallymensfaultsomehow wrote:

Gail Perry - "I'll tell ya what. If the test to detect testicular cancer was to slap men's private parts on to a glass plate and squash them -- they'd find a better way."
About the eighth time you've said this. There isn't actually a ban on women inventing things you know, if you're so convinced that mammography is some kind of dreadful male trick designed deliberately to hurt, feel free to get on and come up with something better. And if you imagine that somehow medical treatment or screening for diseases that affect men are painless, think again.

Sorry your buttons are pushed so easily that you missed my point, but ... I suggest you find something better to do than lash out at posts that are so old.

[reb]

Yes we are herded around like cattle. The mamos are painful and don't see through dense breast. What a financial scam doctors are running. How evil it is to continue to use mamos when ultrasound and mri is extremely more accurate. To hell with the liars and manipulators. Time to fight for annual mri, now ladies.

[Gail Perry]

I had an MRI. Four years later, my ear still rings. It damaged my ear. And it uses dye, and some are allergic to the dye.

Ultrasounds are not more accurate for full breast scans.

[My breasts hurt]

Now I remember why I waited 15 years between mammo's. My breasts hurt so much it's as if their misery has enveloped my entire consciousness and I feel like a complete dolt for letting anyone inflict this kind of pain on me. This S-H-*-T hurts. I don't care who the tech is. That damn machine is barbaric. I'm never doing this again. Ultra Sound or MRI - anything but this torture.

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My breasts hurt wrote:

Now I remember why I waited 15 years between mammo's. My breasts hurt so much it's as if their misery has enveloped my entire consciousness and I feel like a complete dolt for letting anyone inflict this kind of pain on me. This S-H-*-T hurts. I don't care who the tech is. That damn machine is barbaric. I'm never doing this again. Ultra Sound or MRI - anything but this torture.

believe me i know how u feel, it always hurts me too. but i know for some women - they say it doesnt, my mom always said it didnt bother her.
i avoid having it done for as long as possible, but u really should just grin and bear it, its important - could very well save ur life.

[Ann1975]

I just had my first mammogram at 37 as a pre-op requirement for breast reduction. It was SO PAINFUL that I almost passed out. NO JOKE! My vision was blurry, my hearing faded out and i was light-headed. The technician made me sit for the remaining angles of x-rays. She could tell how much pain I was in and she said, "I only have 13 lbs. of pressure on you and I need to go more". I have no idea how much pressure they use. It's been almost two hours since the mammogram and my breasts still ache and hurt.
Why don't men have to have their testicals smashed to check for testicular cancer? I'd bet if they had to, we would have a better machine or way to screen for cancer because there is no way in hell a man would ever go for his yearly.