Compression Three THIS

[oselle]

You know, I'm not at all a mammogram virgin. I know they're uncomfortable. They're not supposed to make you howl out loud and double over in pain (as soon as you're released from the plexiglass jaws of death, that is).

I'm sure it was the technician's fault. She was either just unskilled or didn't know how to do a mammogram on tits as small as mine. I could tell she was doing it wrong even before she started lowering the boom.

And you know what? If you're doing a very routine medical procedure on someone, the kind that's only supposed to cause mild discomfort, and your patient winds up HOWLING IN PAIN AND DOUBLING OVER? The correct response is, "I'm sorry. Let's take a minute and try again." The correct answer is NOT a snippy, "I was only on Compression Three."

Fuck you. How about I Compression Three my foot up your ass?

There's no excuse for that machine. Some misogynistic descendant of Torquemada invented that fucking thing as far as I'm concerned, and you know damn well that if it was developed to be used on men they'd have long ago invented something less torturous and humiliating.

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[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

I have very tender breasts so even when I have a good technician, I shout in pain and cry. Some are really nice about it but some are such assholes. You had an asshole. Fuck her. I hope her next mammogram hurts twice as much.

And I absolutely agree: there has to be a better way. If men had to have their nuts between those plates, by god there would have been a different test decades ago.

GRR. Yes, I have issues about this. And I'm so sorry you had such a bad time.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I have major issues with just about everything to do with "women's health." There was just an article in today's Wall Street Journal saying that it's probably unnecessary for most women to have a pelvic exam every year but we've been sold a bill of goods about that, too.