My boob is so sore!

[Bunny]

Sorry to be so graphic, but my right breast is killing me. I had my exploratory mammo and sonogram yesterday, and I am still sore. They took four, yes FOUR mammos of the breast, twisted it and smashed it six ways to Sunday. Then three, yes THREE sonograms, each time grinding the wand down on the same spot. Holy crap, who knew it could hurt so much?

Turns out they think I have a cyst, I'm getting a needle aspiration on Thursday to make sure. If it is a cyst, I'm surprised they didn't burst it with all that twisting and mashing!

Anyway, I needed to get that off my chest, heh heh, as it were.

[saracat]

1. I thought you meant Rush about only getting 15 secs fromChimpy!

[kstewart33]

2. Been there, done that!

You have my sympathy. It's great that you're having the lump biopsied. Don't mess around with any lump. Be sure the biopsy is totally negative.

[eaprez]

3. As a nurse I always tell women to ....

desensitize themselves to the pain from these procedures by doing one of the three items below - once a day begining one week from the procedure:

Slam them in the car door
Lower your automatic garage door on them
Slam them in the refridgerator doors. Works especially well if you have a two door fridge and can slam one in each door simultaneously.

[redqueen]

4. lol

Thanks for the laugh. I really look forward to my first mammogram!

[Bunny]

6. Dang, where were you last week?

I could have used this advice then. It's way too late now! :)

[eaprez]

8. Just trying to make you smile and forget your pain if only for a moment.

[redqueen]

5. Sorry to hear they were so thorough

but then again it's probably for the best. Still... ouch!

[tkulesa]

7. I'm so glad I'm a guy.

I'm so glad I'm a guy.
I'm so glad I'm a guy.
I'm so glad I'm a guy.
I'm so glad I'm a guy.
I'm so glad I'm a guy.
I'm so glad I'm a guy.

[Safi]

9. Just wait til you're one of the unlucky 80% of men

who get prostrate cancer if they live long enough.

Forgot where I saw the statistic.

[eaprez]

10. Too bad they don't screen for testicular cancer this way.....

....if they did, there'd have been a better method devised a looonnnggggg time ago.

[tkulesa]

11. OOOOOWWWWW!

Just the thought of that has me squirming. Don't say things like that. That's evil.

[miss_kitty]

15. it's much harder to do a mammogram on a guy,

unless he's got manboobs

:evilgrin:

[MadHound]

39. Just wait until you are of the age for the gloved hand friend.

Bend over, turn your head and cough;)

[GingerSnaps]

12. Get a second opinion

Pain is a sign that your body it telling you that something is wrong.

:hug:

[Bunny]

19. But couldn't the pain just be from all the squashing and

squeezing? I expected to be sore, but this is a little more than I imagined.

Anyway, thanks for the concern. I'll see the doc on Thursday, and take it from there! :pals:

[calico1]

13. I can totally relate and sympathize.

I had to get a biopsy a few years back because of calcifications in my breast. I had a totally black and blue boob for almost a month. Plus because mine tend to be "lumpy" they usually take 3 pictures. So after they are through squeezing them so hard I think they are going to explode --top and bottom, they do a diagonal one. Very nice.....not.

[flamingyouth]

14. I'm so sorry to hear this

I've been through this. I had to have the same thing, only they didn't torment me with FOUR freaking mammograms. I had a benign cyst too. Ouchies, put some ice on it and take some Advil.:hug: (careful hug, not too tight, don't want to further hurt you) :D

[Bunny]

16. Yer a sweetie!

Ice is good, but Darvocet is better! ;)

[GingerSnaps]

17. I have taken Darvocets

I am worried about you please don't let it mask the pain.

Take care of yourself we need you :hug:

[flamingyouth]

18. Oooh, yes it is!

Glad they gave you that! ;)

[NMDemDist2]

20. a needle aspiration?

when the doc did that to me, it hurt so bad I puked on his shoes (literally)

insist they give you drugs first

[Bunny]

21. Really? I did not know that. I thought it would be relatively

painless. Shit. What about a local anaesthetic on the breast? Would that work?:scared:

[NMDemDist2]

25. it's a BIG freaking needle hon

sorry :(

[NashVegas]

22. Mammogram Pain / Discomfort - What's the Big Deal?

I put off having a mamm more than 5 years later than I should have (family history), thanks to all the wisecracks you hear from women who have the dire need to jokingly exaggerate. Made me put it off as long as possible, until I had a real scare.

Was it annoying as all hell? Yup. Uncomfortable? Yup. But pain, real, real ohgodgivemesomefuckingrelief pain? No, just a pain in the ass, so to speak. And I was sooooo pissed at myself for buying into the "refridgerator door slam" crap.

Maybe I somehow got lucky and the people who administered mine were more into pressing than smashing, but the overplay on this matter is an unkindness to your younger sisters.

[Bunny]

24. Okay. Fine. I made the whole thing up.

:eyes:

Maybe I wasn't clear the first time. I have a suspicious growth in my breast. This was discovered during a routine mammogram last month. The procedures I had the other day were diagnostic, i.e., pinpointing the growth and examining it thoroughly to determnine its characteristics, size, etc. This involved four consecutive mammograms and then three consecutive sonograms on the same breast, within minutes of each other.

But I guess it really doesn't hurt. I'm just imagining things...

[NashVegas]

26. Yeah, I Heard You

I must have gotten lucky; like you I got tapped two or three times, then a sonogram, which again was annoying, but overall didn't seem nearly as big a deal as people had made of it.

[tigereye]

28. hey BunnyJ

are you okay? Hope things go well. Mamograms are uncomfortable enough without what you went through. I meant to answer your thread before.

:hug: :hi:

glad you are being thorough with this.

[NMDemDist2]

27. i think the pain is directly related to two things

the size of the breast

the time it is in the woman's monthly cycle

[Hell Hath No Fury]

34. You are exactly right....

Women with dense "perky" breast have a harder time because there is greater pressure on the breast needed to "flatten" the tissue out so it can be imaged correctly.

When a woman has fattier breast that are softer, there is not nearly as much pressure needed.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

33. Sorry but...

when you have smallish, very dense, cystic breasts, it can be DAMN painful! Like "Oh my god I think I'm going to pass out" painful. That has happened to me during mammos, and it is NO fun. Also, my breast are so dense that the mammos are virtually unreadable to boot. Because of the pain, I dread my exams, and am hoping to use the new imaging technology that is available.

[The Sushi Bandit]

23. If you drink a lot of booze the pain will go away

[Doohickie]

29. T. M. I.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

30. Pictures! We NEED pictures, dammit!

:evilgrin:

seriously, hope everything turns out okay.

Unfortunately, the discomfort is neccessary, they are trying to do the best they can.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

31. I've done the cystie thing often...

and had many, many aspirations done -- it's not a bad thing at all. What is the worst is seeing what the fluid in your breast looks like -- it is NASTY lookin' stuff! Kind of greeny brown, what swamp water looks like.

I had a giant cyst right under the nipple once and I was due for my mammo. Went in, got squished and POP! the damn thing erupted all over the plastic mammo plate. Considering nothing has EVERY come out of my breast in that manner, it was a bit disconcerting, to say the least.

If guys saw what lurked inside women's breasts, they might not be so hot for them. ;)

[Bunny]

32. That's quite a picture you've painted!

It makes me look forward to tomorrow! :o

[Hell Hath No Fury]

35. Yup....

it's this kinda stuff that makes me so glad to be a girl! ;)

Since we're in the area, has anyone ever had the transvaginal ultrasound procedure???

Yeegads. Let's just say, afterwards, I thought someone should've been buying me dinner.

I felt a tiny bit better knowing that there WAS justice in the world because guys get the transrectal version.

[Merrick]

36. I'd be happy to massage it for you

Girls tell me I have the hands of a ditch digger.

[Bunny]

37. The hands of a ditch digger?

I've never heard that, but I'm willing to give it a try! ;)

[tinnyguy1777]

38. "My boob is so sore" (view all)

Dammit, I didnt see any. After all, it does say "view all".

[Bunny]

40. ***snort***

Too funny!

[tinnyguy1777]

41. Sorry, bunny, I just hadda do dat!!

Even tho I can appreciate the pain. My wife has loudly expressed her fear that I might touch her, (inadvertently) after she has been thru the same ordeal. Needless to say,it's been "GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!!"