First ever mammogram tomorrow terrified of it

Low threshold to pain, painful when she manually manipulated them into the correct position. By end nearly fainting and as have low threshold to a fit when faint, I'm epileptic, not sure is worth it for me.

Oh my goodness that's awful! How about seeing GP to ask if there is some medication he can prescribe to take beforehand? Maybe strong painkillers & some sort if diazepam? Feel sad for you...

Unfortunately diazepam itself stops me breathing, not good for an epileptic as one of main medications used in an emergency!! 😊 Been taking co-codamol, a strong painkiller anyway for pelvic pain and in process of reducing it. Left breast still painful nearly 4hrs after, so hate to think what be like for me normally. 😪

Will see what she says though.

Unfortunately diazepam itself stops me breathing, not good for an epileptic as one of main medications used in an emergency!! 😊 Been taking co-codamol, a strong painkiller anyway for pelvic pain and in process of reducing it. Left breast still painful nearly 4hrs after, so hate to think what be like for me normally. 😪

Will see what she says though.

Hope so to as my left breast still hurts. If have to go again this time will but not in future

Do you not want to live? Sorry but pain now could save you much more in the future. It's saddens me when people have so much to live for that they don't take every opportunity to try stay alive.

Of course I do but do you know anything about epilepsy and the possible consequences of a fit? It can lead to paralysis, brain damage and death.

Sadly my sister I law died from breast cancer, she wanted to do it her way, thus leaving behind four children and grandchildren.In my opinion and not preaching but one has to endure a littlepain at times to.get through what one has to.

Regarding epilepsy both my children suffered badly so understand how you feel. If you explained your situation to the staff they

Will be able to great care of you.

At the end of the day we are all our own controllers with what we decide, so we can only blame ourselves if things go wrong. But

If they go right then great. As said before mammograms saved my life and have yearly checks I am so grateful for life.

Wish you well with whatever you decide to do.

Understand your frustration, hope your friend is doing well. Life is a gift to treasure.

I wish to God I did not feel as I do because yes I do value life and wish to grasp it with both hands, unfortunatley the severity of my epilepsy means that every 2nd or 3rd fit sees me admitted to hospital, often to Intensive care and in Status Epilepticus. So far I've been brought round - one day it won't happen.

Sorry if I have frustrated or upset anone and I hope that all metioned do well

My previous post in this discussion has been held up with the moderator, but what it basically says is this:

During the 1970's and before, treatment for breast cancer was very drastic and horrific, and there was a clear need to find out very early on if any intervention could be done much sooner to save women from going through such terrible surgery. Hence the introduction of the screening programmes and the praise of mammography. Nowadays the treatment for breast cancer has improved dramatically, such that very early intervention might not be the best thing after all, as many early abnormalities picked up by mammography turn out not to do any harm to the woman during her lifetime. This is the information which is slowly finding its way into our screening leaflets. Why do you think so many female doctors are not having mammograms? What do they know that you don't?

Now that we are 30 years or more down the road from screening, medical literature has pointed to screening finding many of the small, unpalpable, slow growing sorts of cancers, which would not go on to cause harm. The problem with screening is that it puts the woman in a dilemma - if she didn't attend screening, she would be blissfully unaware that she is carrying one of these tumours, but if she goes to screening, she finds herself a cancer patient for much of her life with all the treatment that that entails. The choice, which to do, must rest entirely with the woman. The treatment now has improved so much from 30 years ago, that it is also a responsible decision to only take action when a symptom is found. You will probably end up with the same treatment that the woman gets who has attended regular screening anyway. Highly aggressive, life-threatening tumours are felt very early on, and providing the woman presents early with her symptoms these should be addressed as soon as possible. It is wrong to claim that mammograms are always a life saver, since they more likely find slow growing tumours, which, even if you did nothing at all, would take years, if ever, to kill you.

I respect your options and views, we are all allowed to express how we feel. I still believe in mammograms and the early detection of cancer, understand what you say but detection and the removal of any tumour asap will always be how I feel.

No what I am saying is that the mammogram is such a small thing in the scheme of having the c word and the treatments to be endured if you want to live badly enough i have no time for people who won't take a lifeline when it is offered. I have lost two aunts (the last one 9 months ago and saw the dreadfulness of not getting treatment soon enough) to this horrible thing, my mum is a survivor and I am going to do anything it takes to survive too.if you are offended by my remarks, I am sorry for you, but no personal attack has been made and I am entitled to my opinions. If you do not like full discussion, then do not invite it.

i am obviously feeling far too emotional and  fragile to take part in discussions so I will take myself off the forum.

Thanks Informed. This is a post I made earlier on in this thread which hopefully puts it into context for newcomers to it "Low threshold to pain, painful when she manually manipulated them into the correct position. By end nearly fainting and have low threshold to a fit when I faint"

I have removed one comment and replies to the comment. Users are entitled to post their opinions but we will not delete comments just because other users disagree with the comment. There are always going to be strong opinions on a subject like this but please discuss politely rather than let the discussion break down.

Alan 

Nice to see monitoring is taking place, and nicely said.