excessive breast pain after mammogram

Given that you've been through some variety of breast disease fear, and you have that marker, if it were me? - I might well have completely torqued/wrenched my body when I was having the procedure. Is there someone around who could massage your shoulders and neck gently - and who might also see if you've got trigger point rebellion going on - from head to waist. But report this to your physician, too. I hope it eases soon. -- But also - if you are awaiting the results -- how about calling and getting them.

i had a mammogram 2 days ago and today i got pain in my right breast ( i had some pain in my left breast before but didn't have any pains in my right breast before ).
It looks like this is a common problem :(
Thank you for the post.

I get a mammo every year. After last year's mammo my breasts where tender for al long time. In the first week they where irritable and tender, it still felt the pressure of the plates especially on the skin of the upper half of my breast, a bit like a rash it felt. Also the area between my breasts felt as if there had been something torn. Therefore I wore a bra in bed so my breasts would stay in place and I would feel the tearing feeling less. Next week my nipples itched. The month after that my breasts remained tender. In the first week I started to notice that my breasts where sagging more. I am 47 years old and I have small firm breasts. I start to notice a wrinkle under my breasts and for the first time my breasts touched my arm when I was drying my feet after shower. Maybe it is all perception but since there are a lot of women on this forum that think they are alone in this, I just write what I felt.

Now half a year later my breasts are not tender anymore, but I still have the feeling they sag more then they used to.

In the Netherlands a research has been done to the side effects after mammography. 40 % of the women had painful breasts one day after the mammo, a substancial group had tender breasts one week after the mammo. A study is initiated for the development of a mammograph that can give every breast a minimal optimal pressure. So it is no longer dependent on the assistent. It will give pressure dependent on your breast size.

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I too, had a painful mammogram just a week ago and it left me with a rash and blisters and an actual sore where they squeezed to quick and to hard.  I am close to 70 and just six months ago they found a contained cancer in the left breast and several non-cancerous lumps in the other.  I had a mastectomy and the cancer was gone.  However, when they did this last one, one week ago, I am putting whatever rash and meds I can to releave the painful area that was left.  I have had numerous mamo's through the many years of my life and this was the only cancer but I have had to have several lumps removed.  This was the only time my breast hurt this bad or even at all in all this time.  Please don't give up on mammograms.  The young girl was obviously new and in a hurry.  She pushed my breast in too quickly and caught some of the flesh around it and that is why I still have so much pain.  It's better to know if you have a cancer and get it out.  It WILL kill you and there is no other way to know if that lump is dangerous until it is found and then biopsied.  Find someone experienced and it won't be a problem.

You want to live your life fearing that your breasts are out to get you? That's your choice. But you also chose to have a mastectomy for a "contained cancer". You submitted to a technician who was both "obviously new" and, "in a hurry." Do not tell women that breast cancer will kill them. Breast cancers are very complicated. This is not the place for fear-mongering. All those years of mammograms are not to be taken lightly, either, but I won't tell a woman not to have them. You had a mastectomy for in-situ cancer? And, the repeat mammography in 6 months was for what purpose. You do realize, that how the technician proceeds makes a difference. Well, there you go. (And you should report the technician). What would be helpful is if you asked your physicians and surgeons just why they think 70 year old women, or any post-menopausal women who are are not and have not taken homorones are developing cysts, fibroadenomas, etc. Meanwhile, crusading for mammograms and selling breast cancer as a killer is not what anyone needs.

I have googled this question as I am suffering with my left breast. i have only had two mammograms and now have a permanently sore left breast. When I phone to complain, I was told to take Evening Primrose oil capsules which have helped slightly. The mammogram itself was absolute agony and I'm sure damage has been done to my breast tissue. I self examine and get the doc to do it when I go. But the damage is done

I am so very sorry. A thought - take it back. Take your breasts back. I'm going to do that with intention. For too many years now, I have "given-over" my breasts to what I permitted others to do to them. (I do not mean to sound so flippin esoteric, but there it is. All good to you.

I too had this same problem. Why is there not a doctor trained to help us women who have damage from mammograms? Is there one? Does anyone know of somebody who can help? I am in so much anguish and pain. My clothes and bras no longer fit and I have contant pain. My body is damaged. Where can I seek help?

At the age of 28, I had major abdominal surgery. My OB-GYN was concerned about the abundance of almost imperceptible lumps in my breasts, so ordered a mammogram 12 hours after surgery. I had so much morphine pumped into me at the time, I shouldn't have felt a thing - but, it was EXCRUCIATING! I have D-cup breasts, which I was subsequently told cause the procedure to be more painful. I've given birth, had multiple major surgeries, fractured numerous bones in my leg & ankle (my foot was turned entirely backward in the accident) and nothing I experienced before or since has been as agonizing as that mammogram. I'm now 61 and due to the prior experience, I've avoided mammograms altogether since. There's been no history of breast cancer in my genetic history - and I've traced lines back many generations - so, I've knocked wood and hoped for the best. Recently, my new physician - also a large-busted female - told me that the new digital mammography isn't like the torture devices of the past and that she just had a mammogram and it wasn't painful at all, only slightly uncomfortable. I'm able to walk in for the procedure without an appointment and have been trying to work up my courage. I'm determined to do it within the next week or two.  Will post an update as to the experience once I follow through.

In 2009 age 46 I had my first mammogram after my regular doctor said I had lumpy breasts and instilled such fear in me that I omitted to do my own research and seek other medical opinion as to whether a mammogram was warranted.   The mammogram showed all was normal but my breasts to this day are painful and damaged and I will never ever have another mammogram (digital or film, #D has even more radiation).   Having the mammogram was the biggest mistake of my life and immediately after the mammogram my breasts felt like they were on fire and now I cannot wear a bra and they are sensitive to heat like warm showers and standing near stove whilst cooking.  I have since spent 3 years researching the pros and cons of mammograms and conclude they are DANGEROUS, unreliable (too many false positives, too many unnecessary biopsies and even cancer treatment) they cause breast damage and the radiation can cause cancer.   Recently I found a website

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 which includes a video by Dr Johnnie Ham MD MBA that I wished I had seen before I had the mammogram as I would never have allowed such a barbaric procedure on my breasts.   Mammography today is BIG business that is why doctors will not allow women to have ultrasounds or MRI's without mammograms and they tell women that the radiation exposure is equivalent to a trip from London to New York when in fact it is much more (you can find reliable data on the internet regarding radiation exposure).   What annoys me now is that recently I spoke to an old friend from university who is a neurologist and I started telling her about my breast pain and before I even mentioned that I had a mammogram 3 years ago she said "I hope you didn't have a mammogram".    I was in tears and told her that I had listened to my doctor who said I had lumpy breasts and that since the mammogram I went to 9 different doctors to get a hand breast check and none of them said that my breasts were lumpy.     In short my friend said that doctors use the term "lumpy" to drum up business for themselves and the radiologists (my stomach was churning as to how the medical industry has become so unethical, deceitful and money hungry).

So if you are told you need a mammogram PLEASE get at least 5 other opinions if a mammogram is really warranted because once your breasts are damaged, they will never ever be the same.   The only way this coercing women into mammograms is going to stop is if we unite and question the doctors who refer them and we should have the right, the option to initially just have an ultrasound and then if something suspicious shows up then explore options like MRI. at the moment we are not given those options as we just believe what the doctors say and they laugh behind our backs with more money in their pockets.   My blood boils when I hear celebrities endorsing mammograms (but they have never had one, never had their breasts damaged) and I wonder who is paying them for marketing mammography.

Please do your own research before you become another victim of mammography and if you decide to have the procedure then at least you can be satisfied that you have done your own due diligence for the best interest of your health because the medical profession will certainly act and do what is in their best interest.

How cruel! That torturer should definitely be reported! And why no one told me after my mammogram to take fluids. I also was too much in shock after my similar experience that I forgot about fluids that day ( I had my first mammogram as early as 32 only because I had a few small cysts! sic) this mafia should be stopped. may they die of cancer, all the profiteers and pharmaceutical companies advertising mammograms instead of HARMLESS THERMOGRAMs. Get the TRUTH OUT, IT'S NOT IN THEIR INTEREST BUT IT IS IN THE INTEREST OF OUR OWN HEALTH.

I hope not. However, please DO NOT GO FOR ANOTHER MAMMOGRAM!!!! DO THE THERMOGRAM INSTEAD, you won't have any side effects you're experiencing now

do the thermogram which doesn't radiate you and cause havoc on breast tisue

Mammograms are very dangerous. We need to form a support group. I am extremely depressed over my last mammogram which has left me in pain and I have to wear 2 bras for support. None of my clothing fits, I have to get a compression band to wear above my breasts for the pain. I am hoping that will help. The mammogram literally squeezed the life and elasticity out of both breasts this time. I will never heal. My doctor gave me prednisone, then told me if that don't work, there is nothing he can do! Why doesn't the mammogram come with a RISK of these side effects? we need to ban together and stop women from getting the mammogram

Thank you , at last it is great to finally find someone that has the same thought as me. I had 7 mammograms in one session, 3 on my nipple. This caused radiation burn,and terrible pain, but the doctors will not accept that the mammogram had caused so much damage ( all keeping mum!) about it. I now will not have any more mammograms and like you ask the question ' has the possible cancer cells spread around my body?' They say that another mammogram is needed and a procedure ' steriotaxic' has to be carried out, - no way, so they have washed their hands of me and i am trying to cope on my own with alternative therapies and keep my fingers crossed.