Why do you have to go off it?
Not really, no. Men are actually a lot more willing ( stupidly so IMHO ) to put up with discomfort and bad treatment in general. Complaining is unmanly, you see. One of the beneficial side effects of women moving into traditionally male jobs is they tend to stand up and demand more comfort and safety than men do.
And to be fair, no I don’t expect you to have an especially objective minded view on this issue when boob-squashing is imminent.
A mild pit
about a girly bit
It may have been her tit
(I missed that bit)
Squeezed between plates
something she hates
Or probed with a speculum
(though not in the bum)
Not a lot of fun
but it has to be done
So you may as well make a day of it.
>snort<
The colonoscopy is easy - it’s the day before that you spend evacuating your bowels that sucks.
No. At the urging of my doctor, I had it without any anaesthetic or other chemical aid, so I could drive in, then drive out afterwards.
It was clinically interesting (I got to see my own intestines from the inside in real time, and living color), but otherwise squickworthy. I cannot understand folks into anal sex.
That was great, Chimera
The first time I had a mammogram I forgot to take the little pasties off, ran a bunch of errands and came home to notice that there were these weird little metal tips poking though my clothes. It just added to the fun of the day.
Not a freaking clue, just my doc wants me to have one cycle a year, and it always synchronizes with going in for the annual ritual torment … maybe something related to my PCOS?
no not suck, it is exiting not entering
and exiting, and exiting, and exiting … and where did that kernal of corn come from … I havent eaten corn in a month … and why are there always little bitty bits of carrots? and sesame seeds?! :eek:
My grandmother always pooh poohed the tests, too. “Why don’t you get one, gran? We love you and we don’t want to lose you!” Oh they showed her the medical reports, the documentaries on TV, all the evidence. “Early detection is the key!”
She was from the old country, was never one to visit a doctor. The more we tried to persuade her, the more obstinate she got. She just refused because “it could never happen” to her.
Sure enough, she died.
Wait, come to think of it, it never did happen to her. She died of old age. Cancer free, actually. :smack:
Just the same, get checked.
Okay, I’m a guy. Explain to me about the pasties – why do you need to wear something over your nipples?
I have read there is a feared increased risk of endometrial cancer in PCOS due to lack of periods/shedding of the uterine lining. Perhaps that’s it? Well, no matter. I was just curious.
I want to know too. I’ve been told a lot about them, but I won’t have my first for a few years. No one has ever mentioned lead pasties, though!
Now that you ask, I don’t know. It had something to do with how the x-rays came out, I think. Now it’s all digital but it wasn’t years ago. I tried to google it but I think it’s a question for a radiologist.
Am I the only one that remembers those and was my local hospital very behind the times a few years ago?
I’m still too young to have my boobs squished, though I did have to get the left one ultrasounded once and tit* turned out to be nothing. I must ask my mom about the pasties, though? I’ve never heard about that.
I have to think that a pelvic is more involved than getting a prostate check, gentlemen. It’s not like there’s a speculum involved for you. Fortunately I have so far avoided the finger-up-the-bum part of a pelvic exam (don’t ask me, I know some do it and some don’t, and I’m not about to ask for it). But the rest, while not horrible, is no fun whatsoever.
tossing chocolate to aruvqan Sometimes womanhood sucks. Big time. Hang in there.
*This is what I typed and it will stay because it makes me laugh.
Yeah and I’m pretty sure they don’t need to keep the super-duper-mr.-hooper Q-Tips on hand to soak up the blood from a prostate check.
Not a clue, though Ill try and remember to ask =)
Though she wasn’t hesitant at all to put me on norethindrone and supress the menses, though I am thinking of an ablation to decrease the sheer number of pills i have to take in the morning. I dont think I could talk her into an hysterectomy to just stop the freaking problem permanently, the idea of 10+ more years of this crap is personally offensive … but at least my diva cup gets used once and a while=)
Finger up the ass is for a fecal colon cancer check, the smear it on a card test.
though I have a doc who keeps the speculums in a warming drawer=)
[sort of pitiful the high spot of the process is not having a cold speculum sigh]
The pasties are for knowing where the “center” of the boob is on the x-ray. I think they are called “radiopaque nipple markers.”
Thanks. I asked Pepper Mill about them last night, after I posted, and she had no idea what I was talking about – she never had anything like them, and she couldn’t see the point, since they’d obscure things at the nipple itself – and you want to be able to examine those as well.
Come to think of it, why would you need coverings on the nipples – aren’t they pretty prominent in the mammograms themselves, and act as position identifiers? Seems I always see them on mammograms.
They don’t cover the whole nipple, just the very tip. They’re very small.