I thought the stickers were for marking the nipples. At least that's how my mammos have always gone. And -t, I would say skip the deoderant if you use the kind with aluminum in it, that's what interferes with the images.

I hope the trip goes well, ita, and that you get enough time away from family to relax a bit. Also, there will be Scola.

Safe travels!!

I have to get a mammo (I have been forgetting to) and the sticker thing is news to me. Perhaps I will bring my own stickers?!

I think I've heard it's worse for small breasted women to get mammos than we ladies with the melones grandes?

They are Special Medical Stickers.

I will say, I don't know how people with very little breast tissue actually do get it in there.

I've never had a mammogram (I know, I know) because I'm very scared of it. I'm afraid the machine won't stop and it'll crush my tit. I'm afraid anxiety will make me light-headed and I can't sit down, and then I'll faint and fall down and rip my tit off. Seriously, this is what I'm scared of. Can that even happen? Do they leave you all alone in there with the squishy machine?

I've never had one either, Zen, and I really should at my age.

The technician is there with you during the process. For me, the painful part was having the machine pressing against my sternum.

Yeah, the sternum press is obnoxious. The pressure of the plates squishing the tit can be uncomfortable. But you are not alone, and the tech is standing right next to you. I imagine there's an emergency release if needed.

Zen, you should be able to take an anti-anxiety med before a mammo. My doc prescribed a Valium before I got this bump excised from my arm, and that required a local.