https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:27:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-409349 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:01:18 +0000 slythwolf 409349@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Also, I am uninsured, but there is a county sliding scale clinic where I go for health care and I love the doctors and nurses there. It's worth it to look into those kinds of solutions if you are uninsured; I resisted it for a while thinking it would be a lower standard of care or that they wouldn't treat me well, and I'm sure in some places that may be the case, but there are options and it's worth your time to find out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-409348 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:58:34 +0000 slythwolf 409348@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Had one at 24 when we found my fibroadenoma; I'll be 29 next month, none since. Up<br /> to date on my BSEs though! (Bertha the fibroadenoma is unchanged, thank goodness.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408721 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:42:17 +0000 Lynne 408721@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Soon-to-be Dr Lyn, thank-you for chiming in, and I am sorry you had to deal with this when you were so young. You are right about mammograms; I probably should have used the word breast screening, to cover whatever protocol is appropriate. I would add 'painfully' to the front of 'squishy' :).</p> <p>Anette, thanks for this information, it's great to know. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408627 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:49:20 +0000 annette 408627@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For women with no insurance, please talk to your local health department. I am not sure how common this is, but we offer free yearly exams including routine mammograms at mine. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408600 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:41:43 +0000 Louise 408600@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The UK doesn't routinely screen until women are a certain age, 50's I think? I do get the dreaded smear test done every 3 years though x </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408599 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:36:10 +0000 Marley 408599@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Check! Had it done in July! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408598 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:26:59 +0000 Anonymous 408598@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tick. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408592 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:29:37 +0000 Anonymous 408592@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Isabel, not to worry, I didn't take your comment the wrong way at all! : ) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408589 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:22:30 +0000 Isabel 408589@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lyn(onSYC) , I am so sorry that that happened to you. What a terrible thing to deal with at any age, especially 17 !! </p> <p>Lyn, you are just such a great person to the core ! Hey, someone has to look out for us !</p> <p>Alicat, I re-read what I wrote and I hope it didn't come off as criticizing your link. I LOVED the link, they are great guidelines and it is all we have to follow - the link is also good at explaining why those recommendations are so. And, at least for me, that also helps me reach a decision. The medical profession is in a tough spot.</p> <p>Stay healthy !!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408556 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:02:15 +0000 lyn* 408556@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm too young for my mammogram (no family hx - yay!).</p> <p>I had an interesting description of a mammogram from a patient once ... "You mean the test where they squish my breast in between two metal pieces? It was fine. It felt ... squishy."</p> <p>ETA: For us youngin's ... there are other tests besides mammography if you are concerned I had ultrasound guided core biopsy for my lumps when I was 17. Now I have one boob. My other is lucky; it gets more attention? LOL. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408547 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:14:54 +0000 Lynne 408547@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Heleen, of course this is your personal decision. Namaste. :). </p> <p>Ali, thank you for the links, it's good to find good resources like this.</p> <p>Isabel, as usual your writing is full of wisdom. You are so right about statistics. If you are talking from the point of view of a public health provider, the statistics are invaluable. But at an individual level, we are talking yes or no. And that is what has happened to DH; he has no FH, and is the wrong demographic for cancer. So statistically, he didn't come up on anyone's radar. Even we didn't suspect. But that doesn't change where we're at now. But that is not the reason I posted this reminder; it's because this community means a lot of me, even though I don't know you all IRL, and I want those around me to care for themselves, as they see best.</p> <p>Bless, L xox </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408532 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:08:22 +0000 Isabel 408532@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Alicat, thank you for link !</p> <p>It reminded me of a debate that I heard not too long ago on this very issue. What really strikes me is that the factors leading to some of these decisions are statistical. And statistics are great and very helpful. But I also believe that I am not a statistic. I am either going to be 0% or 100% of something. So I cringe a bit when I read and/or hear that the overall survival rate is not impacted enough to recommend earlier screenings. One woman testing positive and surviving out of 100,000 women who were negative is statistically "insignificant." But to me and my family and friends it is HUGELY significant, because it was me. </p> <p>This is true of any cancer - it is true for Lynne, because it is her husband.</p> <p>In the end, it is a personal decision. I suppose all I can say is don't let pain, inconvenience, fear, or lack of money stop you. ( Where I live, ANYONE who wants a mammogram can have one regardless of their ability to pay. Though I know that is not true everywhere. ) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408518 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:05:22 +0000 Anonymous 408518@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here are two Susan Komen links about how to make sense of the mammography debate:</p> <p><a href="http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/TheMammographyDebate.html" rel="nofollow">http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCan.....ebate.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/GeneralRecommendations.html" rel="nofollow">http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCan.....tions.html</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408512 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:37:34 +0000 HeleenH 408512@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No Lynn, there is no specific reason for me to put radiation into my breasts, so I'd rather stick to the current advise of starting at 50. I am pretty familiar with my breasts from breastfeeding from 30-42 years. That in its own gives me some protection, although as ever: no guarantees are given. I found some information in your language: <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/171120.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.medicalnewstoday.co.....171120.php</a> (the advice is level B, not C) and the source: <a href="http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspsbrca.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.uspreventiveservice.....psbrca.htm</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408503 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:55:19 +0000 Lynne 408503@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Malina, I hope Anne's link is helpful? I think it's a crime that screening is not provided. I have private insurance, but have often had to pay for my own even though I have a FH, as in some countries insurers won't pay on that basis alone.</p> <p>Sona, thank-you for chiming in. Being involved also gives you some sense of control, too, which is important. And as Isabel's experience teaches us, sometimes we have to be the captain of our own ship in these things. Isabel, I am so glad you perservered with investigations!</p> <p>Anne, thank-you for the link! </p> <p>Jonesy and Malina, I agree with the discomfort! I take a panadeine before I go in but it's still uncomfortable. Please consider getting it done soon.</p> <p>`Deborah, Dianthus, and Heleen, please don't delay. I'm @@-ing you :)! Sona's advice makes sense to me; 50 seems late to screen for this increasingly prevalent disease?</p> <p>It is true that in young breasts (under 50), dense tissue affects the mammogram. But at my last mammogram, the doc followed up with an ultrasound, which increases sensitivity; it was really interesting to see the breast tissue and ducts, and underarm lymph nodes. Plus, I felt assured in being able to watch for myself.</p> <p>Well done, all you up-to-date YLFers :). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408484 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:45:55 +0000 Anonymous 408484@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For those who are unemployed and/or uninsured in the United States, here's information about the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program through the CDC. It provides breast and cervical cancer screening:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/about.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/about.htm</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408468 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:35:23 +0000 Deborah 408468@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the reminder lovely Lynne:). I have no family history but have a breast check by my doctor annually, but I am aware that I should now start having regular mammograms... I will follow up. Thankyou. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date/page/2#post-408386 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:23:28 +0000 Jjsloane 408386@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just had my annual one 2 weeks ago. My first one (baseline at 40) was a bit uncomfortable, but the annual ones are much less so for me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408380 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:52:10 +0000 crazyone 408380@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm only 26, so haven't had one done yet.</p> <p>QM: I understand the waiting until 50 without family history thing: younger women often have denser breast tissue which makes mammograms of less use, and of course, every mammogram is a dose of X-ray radiation to the breast area, which itself is a carcinogen, so you want to maximize the utility while minimizing the risk. I assume the age change was made because 40-49 year old women are sometimes still pre-menopausal and have dense breast tissue in which tumors are hard to find using mammogram. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408343 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:28:55 +0000 Mo 408343@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm with Jonesy on the hurts so much - the only thing I can think of that hurt as much was ultrasound of my heart where they pushed that darn probe so hard into the breast tissue between my ribs to 'read' the heart.<br /> But I agree that 50 sounds a bit late to get the very first check up. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408333 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:15:33 +0000 Jonesy 408333@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, it hurt so much that I almost fainted (and I have a high pain threshold, e.g., with my first child my labor was 24 hours with no pain relief!), then they freaked out because they thought they'd found something. Turned out to be nothing, just the issue of it being digital (apparently digital = lots of false positives) and my first one. I came home from a weekend trip with a series of more and more frantic messages on my answering machine, urging me to get in and get re-checked, like it was an emergency or something. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408332 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:11:19 +0000 Queen Mum 408332@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>really Jonesey? (the dreadful part)<br /> I remember going in for my first one and I was soooo nervous... I was planning to treat myself to lunch afterwards to make up for the misery. The whole thing ended up being so easy I was almost disappointed... LOL.<br /> I've known too many women diagnosed in their 30's and 40's.... I don't know how I feel about the new recommendations to wait until 50. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408327 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:06:03 +0000 Jonesy 408327@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm not going to do it until I turn 50, per the new recommendations. I had one when I turned 40 and it was dreadful, and I am not high-risk, so I'm happy to wait. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408325 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:03:25 +0000 Queen Mum 408325@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I should be getting my reminder postcard in the mail soon... then I'll call and make the appt. Love those reminder postcards </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408309 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:57:56 +0000 sarah 408309@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>YES! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408304 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:36:20 +0000 Makrame 408304@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really dislike going in for mammograms since I am almost always asked to come back to re-check some suspicious areas. Not the most pleasant week or two, usually. But I get them done every year anyway. My doctor changed one of my prescriptions recently, which she said might reduce the density of the breast tissue and prevent false-positive findings, so last time I did not have to come back for re-screening. Whew...</p> <p>But the good thing about breast cancer is that it is highly curable and can be found relatively early with all the screening techniques. I am in the high risk group for ovarian cancer, and there are no good early tests for that (and the tests that do exist have very high rate of false positives). So I am glad that at least for breast cancer there is a such a great screening test; it's one less thing to worry about. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408292 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:52:36 +0000 Jenava 408292@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmmm, I am 33 with no history in either side of my family, so my ARNP has not included this in my annual.</p> <p>I remember reading a fashion blog of a woman who got breast cancer and turned her blog into documenting her ordeal. It was pretty amazing to read through.</p> <p>Mo, the fact that there are so many ppl unable to afford checkups in this country (US) seems unjust to me. I hope some day well get that figured out. )-: </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408290 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:45:14 +0000 Kari 408290@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm still in my 20's so haven't had a mammogram yet. I did want to chime in to say that even though some studies are saying that self-exams are not all that useful, I do think they are of some worth. My grandma discovered her lump on her own when she was in her 40's and was half-asleep. She ended up surviving for another 35 or so years afterwards. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408282 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:03:29 +0000 Anonymous 408282@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm 46 and have been getting yearly mammograms since I turned 40. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/girls-please-tell-me-you-are-up-to-date#post-408280 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:02:18 +0000 HeleenH 408280@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mammogram screening is only done in women between 50/51/52 and 75 years old over here. And of course when you and your GP think it is necessary. I will do a self exam after my period, even though the general advise is not to do this. According to the website of the GP organisation and the cancer institute it is proven that it is scientifically proven that self exams don't increase the chance of surviving breast cancer, except for women who have breast cancer patiënts in there family. Hm, paternal aunt died of breast cancer so I do fit in the group of people who better did check their breast (how many [or rather, how few] women will NOT fit in this group?) </p>