More Body Dysmorphia Weirdness
on 8/10/17 5:24 pm
There are just some really sucky medical terms in use. The one that for some reason made me really mad was the breast density classification from my mammogram. Did the wording really have to offically be "almost entirely fat"? They couldn't just call it grade 1 or something that didn't have the word fat with "almost entirely" attached to it? Grr. We're vulnerable enough in a medical setting without medical terms that can feel like a judgment.
on 8/11/17 6:21 am
Exactly! The "almost entirely fat"--is that even a medical necessity? Phooey! I think that is what got me too--it was the parenthetical statement of "severe" as in (severely) and thinking about being very vulnerable in a hospital gown with the back flappin open as I tried unsuccessfully to wallow/roll from my back to my tummy while in pain and he and the tech just stood back and watched. le sigh.
Good grief on the breast exam. That is such a humbling exam to begin with!!! ((hugs)) and I'm very grateful you go do the dreaded mammo so that you know where you are healthwise.
I can't say it ever went away for me. I am 5' and at my smallest I was 124. I was probably more comfortable at 270. I am more confident now, but l know what I look like under my clothes. Now at 140 summer days I feel amazing, but my BMI puts me overweight. Go by how you feel not by what the scales say you should be. Best of luck.
