I understand your concern. I too have had about many painful needle-like sensations a in a few spots every single day for the last three years since surgery. Because of that pain I have never dared to undergo a mammogram since the operation, so for all I know the cancer could've spread quite a bit by now. There's no way I'm sticking a painful breast under those machines if needles have been left in it. Plain old instinct tells me that this would be especially harmful..
I'm sure these markers do cause pain in women and when they tell their doctors they just poo poo it. They don't listen to women because then they would have to document it and if the records showed they caused problems they wouldn't be able to put these little toys inside women anymore. I suspect my pain too is caused by those chips and will push harder to find out this time. Hopefully I won't have to travel to the USA to find out.
Surgeons don't realize that women's breasts weren't meant to be crushed and radiated regularly and have little toys implanted in them. All of those things are a sure guarantee of a cancer return down the road..
I am telling every woman I know who has suspected cancer to get a "double mastectomy" instead of a lumpectomy!! How badly I regret not having done that myself, because in my eyes, the definition of a 'lumpectomy" is merely "a first cancer operation to be followed by another later."
This was the most painful operation in my life and it's not one women want to go through twice. My feeling is that the reason they don't tell women about these breast markers is because they know darn well that not just you, but almost all thinking woman would refuse this nonsense!
I'm still in a rage from 40 years ago when I had other clips put in my body without permission. I will die in rage from this because I think people should have a "right" to know what foreign bodies are being put inside them, especially if these things aren't essential to survival. I feel as violated and angry as if I had been raped and I increasingly distrust doctors for purposely hiding this information from patients. What is the reason for their deep dark secrecy? That sort of thing should be against the law!
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