Girls, how old were you when you found out what a "mammogram" was and did you find the thought of it "intrusive"?

[4465loveyou5577]

I remember I was 12 when my mom told me what it was and (at the time) the thought of getting my girls clamped freaked me out. But now that I've had them done it was no big deal and I hope to be a mammotech in the near future.

I never thought of it as intrusive but I never had one

I never thought of it as intrusive and I've had them done before

I thought of it as intrusive at first but not anymore but I never had one

I thought of it as intrusive at first but not anymore and I've had them done before

I still think of them as intrusive but I never had one

I still think of them as intrusive and I've had them done before

[redeyemindtricks]

I didn't *really* understand what a mammogram was all about until I was somewhere between 18 and 20 years old. Remember -- no mom, no close female relatives, nothing... I basically grew up in a world of boys.

Also, the women in our family (fairly distant relatives -- "distant" in terms of both geography and relation) haven't been afflicted by breast cancer, so, on top of the lack of close female relatives in general, there really would have been no reason for me to randomly hear about it.

I've never really been shy about physical exposure, and I also don't mind somewhat rough manipulation of my body parts if it's for a good and easily understandable reason. (:
I also have a higher-than-normal pain threshold, and I'm not really touch-sensitive anyway... so, all the warnings about how it would hurt turned out to be overstated (for me, anyway).
So, yeah, really not "intrusive" for me -- either in theory (before I ever had a mammogram) or in practice (once I actually had one).

[4465loveyou5577]

Yeah, although when they did the views that included the implant did you feel a stretch in your pec muscle?

[redeyemindtricks]

There was a certain type of... discomfort, yeah.

"Stretch" isn't the word I would use, because it didn't feel *anything* like the kind of pec stretch you'd do before or after a workout (= like holding straight arms together behind yr back and moving them up and down). But, yeah, there was definitely... a shear force, lol.

All I really had to do was relax the muscle, though, and it was fine. One of those mind-muscle connection things.
But, if another woman were to tense up -- just by reflex -- and she weren't as accustomed to tensing and relaxing individual muscles as I am... yeah I could see how that could have been a problem.

[BaileyisDarcy]

I didn't even realise they'd been around that long.

I heard about them two years ago, I think only because the media must have decided people need to know they exist.

I never thought they were intrusive, a bit weird that your boobs need to be squashed to see if soemthing's wrong, yet they use an x-ray that never even touches your head to see your brain though.

[4465loveyou5577]

Yeah I see what you mean, but if an X-ray machine could squish just about any part of your body it would make it easier to X-ray. But boobs are the only thing worth X-raying that you can actually squish in the first place.

[Rissyanne]

I had one in April... it was no big deal. I am glad I had it done.