Thank you, Gigi. I so agree with you, and I’m willing to pay out of pocket and will most likely still be told not to do it. So am I to insist upon it? Do I find yet another doctor who will perform it?
Here’s another debate- if you have dense tissue, they put a warning on your mammogram. My doctors alway say that the risks are sooooo low. I believe there are two states where sonograms are required for further testing. My niece in NY was required to have the sonogram because she has dense breast tissue. And they ended up finding a very small cancer! Thankfully they found it so early and she had surgery to remove it. She may have had radiation as well. How scary is that?