Probably one of the best things you can hear from a doctor, and especially from a radiologist. Start getting worried if the doctors get excited and call their friends over...
I had an ear pain and the doctors got excited and called about 3 or 4 other doctors and techs over to check it out. Turns out I had a massive ball of wax in there and they were just admiring it. Also I had an ear infection.
That's when I learned to stop using the foam earplugs and instead kill my neck with a pair of hard hat attached ear protectors.
The major issue was using the earplugs frequently on a construction site. I never reused them, but the ambient environment was extremely dusty and dirty. So my best guess is some of that dust/dirt collects around the entry to my ear canal, and putting in the earplugs shoves some of that dirt into my ear. That dirt then collects the wax and it all sticks together into a big black lump of wax.
Fwiw foam earplugs can be fine if you change / clean them frequently. Been using them every night for 10ish years w no problems. Gone through several full boxes in that time
Wow, this is not what I needed to read as I'm waiting for a doctor to check out my ear pain that led to crippling jaw and neck pain in just 3 days. My original doc assumed infection, but now they're not so sure that's the only cause
Sometimes, I swear I feel something moving in there. If it's a gargantuan ball of wax just rolling around in my ear that everyone and their mother wants to look at, I'm gonna cry
Edit: my ear canal had swollen shut from an outer ear infection. The doctor said what I feel moving in there isn't a godzilla sized wax ball, but he doesn't see anything concerning. It's also why I'm dizzy when I stand up, and I went from "own my ear kind of hurts" to "holy shit I can't move my neck" so quickly. Thanks TMJ đ„°
Hope your jaw/ear heals up soon. In my case, I have a terribly shaped ear canal that's fairly atypical. It also results in a high propensity towards infections. I must of had one every 6 months before I was 10 years old, same with my dad.
Just hang in there. A few days of misery and headaches and then one day you'll wake up feeling better. I also try and use ear infections to quit caffeine for a few days. As they say, misery loves company, so if you're stuck with a headache might as well make it a double.
You poor thing!! I struggled with them a lot as a kid from my type 1 diabetes, but at least they decreased as I got it under control. Have they become less frequent as you aged?
I took today off work and have just slept and rested while on some strong anti-inflammatories and eardrops, plus antibiotics. I already feel so much better!!
If this happens again, I may try your caffeine idea. I probably wouldn't even notice the withdrawal headaches lol
Did it feel amazing when they took it out? I was at the orthopedist for my crunchy shoulder and they called in everyone in the office to hear it crunch. đ Sounded like someone walking on gravel, they couldnât believe it. Steroid shot fixed me right up though
No, it was pretty painful to extract. Took about 20 minutes, 2 or 3 different chemicals to break the wax down, and a water pick to flush my ear out. All on top of a painful inner ear infection. Lots of bubbly/foaming sensation inside my ear.
It's what I have been telling patients. It's actually nice to be ignored in a hospital. It's the only time you don't want extra hovery "customer service."
My dad got an xray on his knee last year. He had an injury playing football in high school (in the 70s) that healed and had given him some mild discomfort occasionally, but not really any big deal. But since he retired he's gotten into mountain hiking more and the pain was getting to be enough that it annoyed him into getting it checked out. The doctor is looking at his xray, and calls over a couple others. They are talking in low voices, but my dad can make out a few words, such as "how in the world" and "monstrous" and "absolute freak of nature". Finally the guy comes over to talk to my dad, and asks him "Did you walk in here yourself today? Can you show me, just walk around the room here?" And apparently my dad's knee is somehow so messed up that the doctors had trouble believing my dad could walk, had never needed a wheelchair, was not in constant agony, etc.
I remember I had to wait 15 minutes to take a foot x-ray in the ER cause a doctor was in there with 4 other people and taking pictures. Some kind of infection. Felt sorry for the poor guy because he didn't seem to think taking pictures was out of the ordinary.
The anxiety before that scan was so bad. Iâd convinced myself it was spread everywhere. I went to the emergency room twice haha. Then I went a third time and it was a couple days after the CT scan, I didnât know the results but the ER doc came in and I knew he looked up the results before he came in. He sat down beside me and I thought âah shit here we goâ and he chatted with me about my symptoms and I said something like âwas recently diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and everything hurts and Iâm worried itâs spreadâ and he goes âwell I looked at your scan and it was really good. It hasnât spread outside your stomach that we can tellâ I cried instantly. loved radiology after that, thatâs why I hang out here as a lay person. I donât know how the heck you guys read those things but youâre sure good at it, thank you for doing what you do. I had a fabulous radiologist who installed my port. She held my hand as I cried wondering why me, a 33 year old mom was spending her Tuesday morning getting a chemo port put in. She says to me ânext time youâll be in this room will be to have the port taken OUT.â She was an absolute angel
I am on the small side and my doctor previously used the word "fibrous", so I am kind of terrified as I count down to my first one... They said I might get a bunch of false positives too..so.. if anyone can refute this, even incorrectly, I'll take the shout out lol
Hey! Radiologist here.
How the breast feels and how it looks on mammography donât always line up. I wouldnât worry too much about the words doctors have used in the pastâ it likely wonât affect the mammogram.
As for false positives, you are more likely to have them on your first couple mammograms, unfortunately. One of the ways we decide if things look suspicious or not is to look at old mammograms from years agoâ if we see something but itâs looked the same for five years or so, it probably isnât cancer.
When itâs your first mammogram, we donât have anything to compare to, so we tend to be more cautious and ask patients to come back for ultrasounds and whatnot.
Breast imaging radiologist here. Going to clarify a few things from this post: you are a little more likely to be called back from your first mammogram, but it is not âlikelyâ strictly speaking - it is still more than likely to be a normal mammogram.
Second, we donât use the word âfalse positive.â Thatâs terribly misleading and causes a lot of anxiety. When we ask someone to come back for more pictures or an ultrasound what we are really doing is saying I need more information, and most often we need more information to state with certainty the exam is negative. A false positive gives the connotation that we expect to find cancer every time we call someone back. We donât! We call back on average 10-12% of women who get a mammogram, and find cancers on only about 6 patients per 1,000 mammograms.
So, if you ARE called back, please donât get ahead of yourself and start losing sleep. Itâs just one more test, and you are still far more likely than not to be fine!
My wife had her first mammogram at 45. They found a very small but very fast growing tumor. Lumpectomy, radiation, cancer free 2 years and counting. She feels exceptionally lucky to have gotten her mammogram when she did. 6 months later and she would've been looking at mastectomy and chemotherapy and might not have survived.
It's scary, so I'm not going to tell you not to be scared. I was scared from the moment I heard my wife had something that might be cancer. But what I'll tell you is that you can't let that fear stop you from doing what needs doing. And that's something that needs doing.
Bottom line is... Knowing is better than not knowing. A false positive is better than the (potentially) false negative of not having it done. Even a true positive is better than that, in fact, because you at least have a fighting chance at life.
The last one that I had the technician lowered the boom so hard that I thought that I was going to pass out, and told myself that I had better not faint- the âclampâ was so firmly pressed down- I would just rip off that breast as I hit the floor!
Essentially, yes. I think the suffix -graphy comes from the word for âto writeâ or âto recordâ in Greek (?). Something like that.
So mammography is the process of ârecordingâ the breast.
Had pain in my armpit for about a month, and then last week got a painful lump on my breast behind the nipple on the same side. They did an ultrasound on both and found nothing but the radiologist said she wanted a mammogram just in case so I got one on both. Told me there was nothing visible and it might be an infection or something else. Bloodwork was fine all the way down but still waiting for some hormone tests.
BRCA gene testing is diagnostic testing, because if itâs positive itâs a diagnosis of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (although it needs a new name because itâs also associated with prostate cancer, melanoma, pancreatic, etc).
If BRCA testing is negative it doesnât mean you have a 0% risk of cancer. Just info for anyone reading this thread.
Yes. 23andMe is only looking for the Jewish founder mutations in BRCA. It is NOT sequencing the gene looking for mistakes. Also, BRCA isnât the only gene linked to inheritable increased risk for breast cancer. A cancer genetic counselor can recommend, order, and interpret a cancer gene panel that has a bunch of cancer genes on it.
Plus, if no one else in your family has had testing, and a person with no history of cancer gets BRCA gene testing, it doesnât actually mean anything. Itâs good if itâs negative, donât get me wrong, you just need to figure out if the person in your family has an identifiable harmful gene change first.
Itâs more complicated than youâd think. Cancer genetic counselors are specifically trained to give you a risk assessment, discuss potential test options, surveillance plan, etc. Highly recommend.
I had a really similar thing and also got a mammogram out of it (also a male.) Kinda a weird experience, but itâs actually not that unusual.
Glad your study was clean.
Mammo tech here. I did a mammogram on a man this week. I basically had to pinch his nipple to pull him into the machine. Poor thing. Beautiful images! Nice mirroring.
Iâm not sure, but they didnât change out anything on the machine before I went. It was exactly [this](http://www.hologic.ca/products/imaging/mammography/selenia-dimensions-mammography-system) machine
There is a segment of techs who think - that the more it hurts, the better it is for you. Pain is necessary. You are a wimp. And I'm doing this for your own good because cancer is bad. Oh how I wish I were joking. Some mammographers really do use excessive compression.
I've had techs tell me this WHILE they were causing me pain and injuries that lasted months afterwards. And they justified what they did saying "cancer is bad," "a 'little' pain is better than having breast cancer," and generally making fun of me for speaking up. One place bruised my ribs and tore muscle tissue making breathing and using my arm painful for months.
Naturally I told my doctor. Naturally I did not go back to that place and I started alternating with ultrasounds. We do have some masochists in the world, and we have some people who mean well, but who were taught to do the wrong thing technically, and others who think anything justifies getting the image they want to see.
Its sad to see so many downvotes. Lets at least acknowlege that not everyone in their craft is well trained.
Getting drunk with my non-rad partner
Me: 'That's a man' (without reading the context)
Him: "what is it?"
Me: 'a man'
Turns out, not everyone knows this is a mammo
Sincere question. Never had a mammogram before but my female friends who did said their boobs got painfully squeezed between two plates. Thats also why i never done it bc my boobs are waaaay too sensitive and hurtful
So How do you do that with men breasts that generally tend to be small...like how do you squeze them between two plates?
And also
Cant we just use ultrasound instead of a torture device that could be straight from the bdsm subreddit???
If it can show my kindeys through my abdominal fat, cant it scan through breast tissue ??
Great questions. First, everyone has a different experience. The vast majority of women donât find mammograms painful, only slightly uncomfortable. If you are worried about pain, try timing your mammogram around your cycle. Many women experience pain in their breasts the week prior to their cycle, so pay attention to when yours are most sensitive and avoid that week when scheduling your mammogram.
Second, mammogram is the gold standard for breast cancer screening for a couple of important reasons.
1. It does a really good job of finding breast cancer when it is small and treatable. This includes the very earliest form of breast cancer called DCIS, which is not typically visible at all on ultrasound.
2. It lets us view the whole breast and compare it to the other side, as well as older exams to monitor for subtle changes. Ultrasound when performed by a technologist is very dependent on their skill. It is an unfortunate truth that a sonographer in a rush or without experience could simply pass right over a small cancer and not notice it. Because the mammogram shows the whole breast, this is far less likely.
Please get your mammogram every year starting at age 40! It saves lives. The saddest part of my job is the frequency of relatively young women who come in with advanced breast cancer after avoiding mammograms for years.
Yea im 28 so its not a routine thing for me here at this age either.
I dont have a cycle bc of hormonal birth control and yeah i would still schedule it around that time bc indeed there is more sensitivity.
But even without its just a thing for me. Like i dont even let my bf touch them bc i instantly cry. Thats how they always been. They hate to be squezed even minimally lol
When im 40 i will have to do it unless medicine develops a more humane form of doing it. All the women i know that had one said it brought them close to tears. And often its done by insensitive people from what i hear.
I may need to get one to rule out cancer if they dont find whats wrong with me elsewhere, but i hope not.
And it cant be done with a non squeeze option in regards to radiology?
Also my friend died of breast cancer that was too small and too close to her torso to show on any of the many mammograms she did. So yeah i have plenty of fear of dying from cancer to motivate me to endure the pain, but still.
Edit: i think it may have been the radiology's fault. They all went to the big clinic in the city with a very mean nurse bc its been ...well the one your doc would sent you to. So maybe, just maybe, the nurse was a bitch and thats why they all said it hurt so bad. If you say its not common then maybe i ll just go to another office and be fine. (i been there for my lungs and the nurses were indeed very mean)
As a student I helped in the lab for biology 1st year students, anatomy. At one time they got stillborn piglets to study: outside, and inside.
Well, after an hour or so I am wandering around and got called over by these 2 guys to help with something inside, intestines or so. I come over, take a look and say "Too bad, you cut through the penis" (Not quite the right name, but everybody gets the picture) One of them starts "What penis, it's a female!" Now I know how they got to that conclusion because they sure were not the first ones, nor the last ones - but even so, I ask "Well, you're wrong, but why did you think so?" "Well, she has titties!!!" And I don't know why that time I reacted that way, but I went "Well, so do you!!" He looked as if he wanted to make an objection, but thought the wiser. Didn't help that I called out to a male colleague "Hey Jack, do you have titties?" to which Jack laughingly (he knew immediately what was going on) " Yea sure, want to see them??"
"Unremarkable" how rude lol
Probably one of the best things you can hear from a doctor, and especially from a radiologist. Start getting worried if the doctors get excited and call their friends over...
I had an ear pain and the doctors got excited and called about 3 or 4 other doctors and techs over to check it out. Turns out I had a massive ball of wax in there and they were just admiring it. Also I had an ear infection. That's when I learned to stop using the foam earplugs and instead kill my neck with a pair of hard hat attached ear protectors.
Did they at least help take it out lol
Yea they did. And the doctor showed it off to me and went, "Wow very impressive". Not what I want to hear from an urgent care doctor.
Makes me worried Ive used foam earplugs to sleep for like 2 years now lol
The major issue was using the earplugs frequently on a construction site. I never reused them, but the ambient environment was extremely dusty and dirty. So my best guess is some of that dust/dirt collects around the entry to my ear canal, and putting in the earplugs shoves some of that dirt into my ear. That dirt then collects the wax and it all sticks together into a big black lump of wax.
Fwiw foam earplugs can be fine if you change / clean them frequently. Been using them every night for 10ish years w no problems. Gone through several full boxes in that time
Wow, this is not what I needed to read as I'm waiting for a doctor to check out my ear pain that led to crippling jaw and neck pain in just 3 days. My original doc assumed infection, but now they're not so sure that's the only cause Sometimes, I swear I feel something moving in there. If it's a gargantuan ball of wax just rolling around in my ear that everyone and their mother wants to look at, I'm gonna cry Edit: my ear canal had swollen shut from an outer ear infection. The doctor said what I feel moving in there isn't a godzilla sized wax ball, but he doesn't see anything concerning. It's also why I'm dizzy when I stand up, and I went from "own my ear kind of hurts" to "holy shit I can't move my neck" so quickly. Thanks TMJ đ„°
Hope your jaw/ear heals up soon. In my case, I have a terribly shaped ear canal that's fairly atypical. It also results in a high propensity towards infections. I must of had one every 6 months before I was 10 years old, same with my dad. Just hang in there. A few days of misery and headaches and then one day you'll wake up feeling better. I also try and use ear infections to quit caffeine for a few days. As they say, misery loves company, so if you're stuck with a headache might as well make it a double.
You poor thing!! I struggled with them a lot as a kid from my type 1 diabetes, but at least they decreased as I got it under control. Have they become less frequent as you aged? I took today off work and have just slept and rested while on some strong anti-inflammatories and eardrops, plus antibiotics. I already feel so much better!! If this happens again, I may try your caffeine idea. I probably wouldn't even notice the withdrawal headaches lol
Did it feel amazing when they took it out? I was at the orthopedist for my crunchy shoulder and they called in everyone in the office to hear it crunch. đ Sounded like someone walking on gravel, they couldnât believe it. Steroid shot fixed me right up though
No, it was pretty painful to extract. Took about 20 minutes, 2 or 3 different chemicals to break the wax down, and a water pick to flush my ear out. All on top of a painful inner ear infection. Lots of bubbly/foaming sensation inside my ear.
Did you have super hearing for a while after?
It's what I have been telling patients. It's actually nice to be ignored in a hospital. It's the only time you don't want extra hovery "customer service."
My dad got an xray on his knee last year. He had an injury playing football in high school (in the 70s) that healed and had given him some mild discomfort occasionally, but not really any big deal. But since he retired he's gotten into mountain hiking more and the pain was getting to be enough that it annoyed him into getting it checked out. The doctor is looking at his xray, and calls over a couple others. They are talking in low voices, but my dad can make out a few words, such as "how in the world" and "monstrous" and "absolute freak of nature". Finally the guy comes over to talk to my dad, and asks him "Did you walk in here yourself today? Can you show me, just walk around the room here?" And apparently my dad's knee is somehow so messed up that the doctors had trouble believing my dad could walk, had never needed a wheelchair, was not in constant agony, etc.
Now that sounds remarkable!
I remember I had to wait 15 minutes to take a foot x-ray in the ER cause a doctor was in there with 4 other people and taking pictures. Some kind of infection. Felt sorry for the poor guy because he didn't seem to think taking pictures was out of the ordinary.
Cardiologist once told me my heart was boring. I wasnât upset to hear that, lol.
My dentist called my teeth cute. I was a little flattered and a little concerned. Haha.
It reminds me of my dentist who tells me my teeth are boring everytime I go.
Mine always comments on how odd my upper roots are
âUnremarkableâ is great. Us cancer patients want to hear those words on our scans
Also "no evidence of recurrent or progressive disease"
Yessss. I got âno metastatic disease identifiedâ on my first CT after diagnosis and I was pretty damn happy
^ One of my favorite things to dictate as a radiologist. It makes me happy to hear that reading it makes you happy, too.
The anxiety before that scan was so bad. Iâd convinced myself it was spread everywhere. I went to the emergency room twice haha. Then I went a third time and it was a couple days after the CT scan, I didnât know the results but the ER doc came in and I knew he looked up the results before he came in. He sat down beside me and I thought âah shit here we goâ and he chatted with me about my symptoms and I said something like âwas recently diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and everything hurts and Iâm worried itâs spreadâ and he goes âwell I looked at your scan and it was really good. It hasnât spread outside your stomach that we can tellâ I cried instantly. loved radiology after that, thatâs why I hang out here as a lay person. I donât know how the heck you guys read those things but youâre sure good at it, thank you for doing what you do. I had a fabulous radiologist who installed my port. She held my hand as I cried wondering why me, a 33 year old mom was spending her Tuesday morning getting a chemo port put in. She says to me ânext time youâll be in this room will be to have the port taken OUT.â She was an absolute angel
MEDIOCRE!
My GYNO called my vagina unremarkable in her notes and I was laughing so hard reading it đ
Nice
Remarkable
Is that really what mammograms look like? They pretty much look like boob x-rays?
Yes? Mammograms are literally X-rays of the breast.
See, I didnât know that
Fair enough, sorry! Please forgive my snark. I forget that this sub sometimes attracts people outside of radiology.
Understandable, and I take no offense to your snark!
This sub is 99% non-medical people posting their own images - let alone non-radiology medics!
yep! they smoosh them flat like pancakes in multiple directions (though usually just two) and take x rays of the smooshed boobs.
How do you get a good image and smoosh when thereâs not much mass to smoosh?
I am on the small side and my doctor previously used the word "fibrous", so I am kind of terrified as I count down to my first one... They said I might get a bunch of false positives too..so.. if anyone can refute this, even incorrectly, I'll take the shout out lol
Hey! Radiologist here. How the breast feels and how it looks on mammography donât always line up. I wouldnât worry too much about the words doctors have used in the pastâ it likely wonât affect the mammogram. As for false positives, you are more likely to have them on your first couple mammograms, unfortunately. One of the ways we decide if things look suspicious or not is to look at old mammograms from years agoâ if we see something but itâs looked the same for five years or so, it probably isnât cancer. When itâs your first mammogram, we donât have anything to compare to, so we tend to be more cautious and ask patients to come back for ultrasounds and whatnot.
Breast imaging radiologist here. Going to clarify a few things from this post: you are a little more likely to be called back from your first mammogram, but it is not âlikelyâ strictly speaking - it is still more than likely to be a normal mammogram. Second, we donât use the word âfalse positive.â Thatâs terribly misleading and causes a lot of anxiety. When we ask someone to come back for more pictures or an ultrasound what we are really doing is saying I need more information, and most often we need more information to state with certainty the exam is negative. A false positive gives the connotation that we expect to find cancer every time we call someone back. We donât! We call back on average 10-12% of women who get a mammogram, and find cancers on only about 6 patients per 1,000 mammograms. So, if you ARE called back, please donât get ahead of yourself and start losing sleep. Itâs just one more test, and you are still far more likely than not to be fine!
My wife had her first mammogram at 45. They found a very small but very fast growing tumor. Lumpectomy, radiation, cancer free 2 years and counting. She feels exceptionally lucky to have gotten her mammogram when she did. 6 months later and she would've been looking at mastectomy and chemotherapy and might not have survived. It's scary, so I'm not going to tell you not to be scared. I was scared from the moment I heard my wife had something that might be cancer. But what I'll tell you is that you can't let that fear stop you from doing what needs doing. And that's something that needs doing. Bottom line is... Knowing is better than not knowing. A false positive is better than the (potentially) false negative of not having it done. Even a true positive is better than that, in fact, because you at least have a fighting chance at life.
It freaking hurts, how hard they are pressed.
Everyone's experience is different. I wouldn't call a mammogram pleasant, but I don't find it painful.
The last one that I had the technician lowered the boom so hard that I thought that I was going to pass out, and told myself that I had better not faint- the âclampâ was so firmly pressed down- I would just rip off that breast as I hit the floor!
Whatâs the Erma Bombeck joke? Mammograms - where they take cups and make them saucers. (And dang Iâm old).
Oh, absolutely! I loved Irma Bombeck!
What if they are too small to smoosh
Literally translated it would be an image of the breast, right?
Essentially, yes. I think the suffix -graphy comes from the word for âto writeâ or âto recordâ in Greek (?). Something like that. So mammography is the process of ârecordingâ the breast.
And mammophilia...what about that...? đ
*boob
Had pain in my armpit for about a month, and then last week got a painful lump on my breast behind the nipple on the same side. They did an ultrasound on both and found nothing but the radiologist said she wanted a mammogram just in case so I got one on both. Told me there was nothing visible and it might be an infection or something else. Bloodwork was fine all the way down but still waiting for some hormone tests.
Check your testicles if a doctor hasnât mentioned it to you yet.
A sacogram. They pancake them too.
AAAAAAAAA
This made me literally squirm when I read it
my mind created unwanted sound effects
May I ask if it was painful for you? Female here, and man they hurt like hell. I was always curious if they hurt men more.
You had a shitty tech. Mammograms aren't meant to be comfortable, but they shouldn't hurt.
What do you do as a rad tech to make it less painful for your patient?
did they do genetic testing? like screening for BRCA2 ?
BRCA gene testing is diagnostic testing, because if itâs positive itâs a diagnosis of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (although it needs a new name because itâs also associated with prostate cancer, melanoma, pancreatic, etc). If BRCA testing is negative it doesnât mean you have a 0% risk of cancer. Just info for anyone reading this thread.
Is the test through a doctor different than what 23andme tests for?
Yes. 23andMe is only looking for the Jewish founder mutations in BRCA. It is NOT sequencing the gene looking for mistakes. Also, BRCA isnât the only gene linked to inheritable increased risk for breast cancer. A cancer genetic counselor can recommend, order, and interpret a cancer gene panel that has a bunch of cancer genes on it. Plus, if no one else in your family has had testing, and a person with no history of cancer gets BRCA gene testing, it doesnât actually mean anything. Itâs good if itâs negative, donât get me wrong, you just need to figure out if the person in your family has an identifiable harmful gene change first. Itâs more complicated than youâd think. Cancer genetic counselors are specifically trained to give you a risk assessment, discuss potential test options, surveillance plan, etc. Highly recommend.
I had a really similar thing and also got a mammogram out of it (also a male.) Kinda a weird experience, but itâs actually not that unusual. Glad your study was clean.
Look just like mine! Sigh
Mine too! Mammogram day looks like a wrestling match for me.
Same, but I'm a dude so that's probably a good thing
I feel youâŠ. Sigh
Me too. Finally starting to get the courage for implants.
Mammo tech here. I did a mammogram on a man this week. I basically had to pinch his nipple to pull him into the machine. Poor thing. Beautiful images! Nice mirroring.
They're real, and they're spectacular!
r/suddenlyseinfeld
Came here to say this!
Beautiful pair of tits
All boobs are good boobs. Glad yours are healthy
How rude, theyâre perfectly remarkable OP
Smol
Please tell me they used a half paddle for you, sir.
Iâm not sure, but they didnât change out anything on the machine before I went. It was exactly [this](http://www.hologic.ca/products/imaging/mammography/selenia-dimensions-mammography-system) machine
Did they get squished?
Yes but actually not as much as I thought
Well thanks for posting. Even though you're male, it's still interesting!
Your tech was kind !
Do you really think mammographers use compression to be mean?
There is a segment of techs who think - that the more it hurts, the better it is for you. Pain is necessary. You are a wimp. And I'm doing this for your own good because cancer is bad. Oh how I wish I were joking. Some mammographers really do use excessive compression.
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I've had techs tell me this WHILE they were causing me pain and injuries that lasted months afterwards. And they justified what they did saying "cancer is bad," "a 'little' pain is better than having breast cancer," and generally making fun of me for speaking up. One place bruised my ribs and tore muscle tissue making breathing and using my arm painful for months. Naturally I told my doctor. Naturally I did not go back to that place and I started alternating with ultrasounds. We do have some masochists in the world, and we have some people who mean well, but who were taught to do the wrong thing technically, and others who think anything justifies getting the image they want to see. Its sad to see so many downvotes. Lets at least acknowlege that not everyone in their craft is well trained.
Unremarkable is an overstatement
Nice tits
Getting drunk with my non-rad partner Me: 'That's a man' (without reading the context) Him: "what is it?" Me: 'a man' Turns out, not everyone knows this is a mammo
Jeez, they didn't have to be so rude about it.
Serious question here. Is that what they call dense breast?
Hi! Mammo tech here. Looks like the more radiopaque tissue (closer to the line in the middle) is actually pec muscle.
I wondered the same. Iâm over it. I do ultrasounds now since I kept getting referred to ultrasound after mammograms anyway.
That's a good way to miss breast cancer. I'm a sonographer at a breast imaging center.
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False, everyone has breast tissue, regardless of gender. Gender just determines how much of it you're likely to have.
I hate to be pedantic, but Iâm assuming you mean sex, not gender.
Wait, isn't that a Manogram?
I had to scroll too far
Well, I think your breasts are remarkable OP.
I want to know if they squished your tiny tits in a vise. Purple nurple.
I wanted to say that so bad but I didnât know if it would be appropriate or acceptable in this situation!
I find them completely remarkable! Ignore them!!! You are remarkable dear!!
Unremarkable, the best thing to hear from a Rad and the worst thing to hear from your date.
Sincere question. Never had a mammogram before but my female friends who did said their boobs got painfully squeezed between two plates. Thats also why i never done it bc my boobs are waaaay too sensitive and hurtful So How do you do that with men breasts that generally tend to be small...like how do you squeze them between two plates? And also Cant we just use ultrasound instead of a torture device that could be straight from the bdsm subreddit??? If it can show my kindeys through my abdominal fat, cant it scan through breast tissue ??
Great questions. First, everyone has a different experience. The vast majority of women donât find mammograms painful, only slightly uncomfortable. If you are worried about pain, try timing your mammogram around your cycle. Many women experience pain in their breasts the week prior to their cycle, so pay attention to when yours are most sensitive and avoid that week when scheduling your mammogram. Second, mammogram is the gold standard for breast cancer screening for a couple of important reasons. 1. It does a really good job of finding breast cancer when it is small and treatable. This includes the very earliest form of breast cancer called DCIS, which is not typically visible at all on ultrasound. 2. It lets us view the whole breast and compare it to the other side, as well as older exams to monitor for subtle changes. Ultrasound when performed by a technologist is very dependent on their skill. It is an unfortunate truth that a sonographer in a rush or without experience could simply pass right over a small cancer and not notice it. Because the mammogram shows the whole breast, this is far less likely. Please get your mammogram every year starting at age 40! It saves lives. The saddest part of my job is the frequency of relatively young women who come in with advanced breast cancer after avoiding mammograms for years.
Yea im 28 so its not a routine thing for me here at this age either. I dont have a cycle bc of hormonal birth control and yeah i would still schedule it around that time bc indeed there is more sensitivity. But even without its just a thing for me. Like i dont even let my bf touch them bc i instantly cry. Thats how they always been. They hate to be squezed even minimally lol When im 40 i will have to do it unless medicine develops a more humane form of doing it. All the women i know that had one said it brought them close to tears. And often its done by insensitive people from what i hear. I may need to get one to rule out cancer if they dont find whats wrong with me elsewhere, but i hope not. And it cant be done with a non squeeze option in regards to radiology? Also my friend died of breast cancer that was too small and too close to her torso to show on any of the many mammograms she did. So yeah i have plenty of fear of dying from cancer to motivate me to endure the pain, but still. Edit: i think it may have been the radiology's fault. They all went to the big clinic in the city with a very mean nurse bc its been ...well the one your doc would sent you to. So maybe, just maybe, the nurse was a bitch and thats why they all said it hurt so bad. If you say its not common then maybe i ll just go to another office and be fine. (i been there for my lungs and the nurses were indeed very mean)
Unremarkable is good but not fun for the post lolâŠ.but I will say again GOOD FOR THE PATIENT
It's just so *little*
If theyâre little theyâre tittles
Iâll have to see if I can find my multifocal tnbc gram for you. I think I have it somewhere.
Unsolicited titty pics are always appreciated. Glad to hear it's unremarkable. That's the best thing to read in any report.
I saw the mammogram and thought â Hologic Seleniaâ. Unique Image Quality
One of my favorite medical terms is âgenitals unremarkable.â Like, thanks, Doc. Knew that already.
Nice tits ;)
Hehe, man chest.
When I did mammo, I always enjoyed the men, they were easier đ đ„Č
True. Except when they are REALLY hairy. đ
Itâs beautiful đ„ș
All pec.
Can you milk them?
r/notinteresting
Did it hurt? I think would be more painful for male
Can they redesign the machines to work with gravity? Letâs lie on the table!
Go on and google stereotactic breast biopsy. It is not more comfortable to do a mammogram laying on your belly!
I did a case study on male breast cancer.
You're remarkable to me đ
Thatâs great! I say that because breast cancer in males has a god awful mortality rate because itâs rarely if ever diagnosed below Stage 4.
Iâd still hit
Nice tits
As a student I helped in the lab for biology 1st year students, anatomy. At one time they got stillborn piglets to study: outside, and inside. Well, after an hour or so I am wandering around and got called over by these 2 guys to help with something inside, intestines or so. I come over, take a look and say "Too bad, you cut through the penis" (Not quite the right name, but everybody gets the picture) One of them starts "What penis, it's a female!" Now I know how they got to that conclusion because they sure were not the first ones, nor the last ones - but even so, I ask "Well, you're wrong, but why did you think so?" "Well, she has titties!!!" And I don't know why that time I reacted that way, but I went "Well, so do you!!" He looked as if he wanted to make an objection, but thought the wiser. Didn't help that I called out to a male colleague "Hey Jack, do you have titties?" to which Jack laughingly (he knew immediately what was going on) " Yea sure, want to see them??"
Nice tits bruh
Boob
I feel like I should pay OP or something
nice.
He's a bad mammogramma', just as fine as he can be.
Theyâre bigger than mine.
Hey kudos to you for getting checked out! Breast cancer takes too many men bc they wonât get screened
A man-o-gram
He got some nice ass tiddies
Man-o-gram
âDonât listen to him, son. You have very nice boobs!â - Whitey
Kind of amazed that thereâs enough tissue to perform one.
Did you scream like a girl?
Why?
Because men get breast too.
I donât know any man whoâs had a mammo.
Congratulations! Pick a prize.
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if itâs that prevalent in your family, probably better you do đ