Yes this has happened to me several times. It just happened again a couple of days ago, even when I told the tech in advance that this happens to me. She acted similarly to your person. Usually a few days before a mammogram, I rub the crevice underneath my breasts with petroleum jelly to begin to soften the skin, and I stand REALLY still during the procedure. But truly, it is often the tech you get and not your fault! Don't stop having your annual mammogram because preventing breast cancer is really important!
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The same thing has happened to me. I feel sick and have pain in my breast after my mammogram. They told me they needed more shots so they went back and redid both breasts. Then again and then Again! It has been a month and I have a tingling feeling in my breasts and I also feel tired and just not well. By 8 pm I'm in bed exhausted. Totally different from my usual self. I keep hoping it will go away but it hasn't.
Then they told me they saw something unusual in the ultrasound and sent me for a biopsy. When the day of my appointment came the doctor told me no it didn't look like anything but wanted to do the biopsy anyway. I refused and left. I'm feeling upset by the whole thing. I was fine before I went.
Then they told me they saw something unusual in the ultrasound and sent me for a biopsy. When the day of my appointment came the doctor told me no it didn't look like anything but wanted to do the biopsy anyway. I refused and left. I'm feeling upset by the whole thing. I was fine before I went.
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i feel your pain on this. mine are still really painful a month later and i felt at the time that she was bursting them some how. i was sick afterwards for a week but didnt connect the two at the time, though it did cross my mind. there are some other options out there. i have heard there is a machine that has pads. and my friend goes to a homeopathic doctor who has a nurse that does something else.
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that is how i feel too! I never had any pain in my breasts. they are "dense" so the mamogram is not readable anyway and thats why it hurt so much. it truly feels that they were bursting when they did it and the pain has not gone away. i too am tired all the time. and angry. i feel certain that if some thing is now wrong with my breasts it must have been caused by the undue amount of smashing they used in order to get a read on my dense boobs. they are no longer plump and full , but saggy and extremely painful . :( never doing this again
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If you're disappointed in those posts of truth, try having the redness and pain I have right now. Nothing should be sugar coated for anyone. You cannot blame our speaking the truth as the reason someone won't get a mammogram. I've had them regularly for years, I am 61, and the procedure has gotten worse. It used to be a breeze. Now I have no alternative but to report it again to my doctor and shop around for a tech who doesn't like to inflict pain.
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I have had multiple mammograms since 1999 when three growths were found in my right breast. The lumps were biopsied and found to be benign but I was told I needed to have follow up mammograms "just in case". All have returned normal since then. However, my last mammogram was in June of 2012. The technician tightened the machine much more so then I had ever experienced and I have had pain in my left breast ever since. It is not constant pain and seems to be worse after I have worn a bra and at night. The pain is in the outer area of the breast and seems to be relieved by lifting it. I have wondered if a muscle was torn and damaged. Needless to say, I have not had a mammogram since and do not intend to have anymore unless it is with new technology.
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Hi...I just had my first screening at age 59 on Monday, and my upper ribs on my right side are soooo bruised and sore that it hurts to breath, cough, sneeze and try to go to sleep at night...It is Saturday evening and I am still struggling ...How long do I expect this to last???????
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I have had screenings for many years, absolutely no pain afterwards.
Last year had a mammagram and the tech was so very rough, squeezing my breast very much...I have had on and off pain since.
I also right after that had a breast infection!
Since I kept having pain into this year, I was thoroughly checked for cancer..which all came back negative. I still have pain occasionally and I'm bring told that it's stress related.
They could be but I had no pain before my last mammagram. ..I'm never having another one.
Last year had a mammagram and the tech was so very rough, squeezing my breast very much...I have had on and off pain since.
I also right after that had a breast infection!
Since I kept having pain into this year, I was thoroughly checked for cancer..which all came back negative. I still have pain occasionally and I'm bring told that it's stress related.
They could be but I had no pain before my last mammagram. ..I'm never having another one.
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You need to get further testing. if caught early enough, its beatable. thank god.....thats why still have my mother, a breast cancer servivor
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I got all the symptoms of radiation sickness after my mammogram.Extreme thirst,hot feeling and achy, hard to sleep. My stomach hurt right after. I was nauseous all night. I couldn't hardly get out of bed. I had extreme fatigue. 5 days later I even went to ER. They didn't find any flu. My thyroid was okay but I don't trust this procedure. My breasts still hurt 2 months later and I'm still not 100 percent feeling better!My left breast throbs it was run through X-ray 2 times.I won't get another mammogram.
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I have one and wasn't sure and I will never do this again it hurt and I can't explain the feeling, feel like fluid on my chest. NEVER EVER AGAIN.
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Just this past month I had a tech compress my breast to the point where I gasped in pain, and then cried when it was over. Definitely over-zealous, and now my breasts sag. She puposely squashed my muscle and breast tisue too hard! Are masochists in these exam rooms? We need to speak up.
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I had a mammogram November 18, and started noticing pain on my left side, it got worse daily, to the point that it was keeping me up at night. It felt like back pain and I tried massaging it with a tennis ball, nothing helped and was keeping me up at night. I went to my doctor on 11/23/15 and my doctor said I probably had a pinched nerve in my neck. I had x-rays done that day and standing to get them done was terrible. The pain was so bad in my forearm and tingling and numbness in my fingers. I received pain medication and therapy was recommended 3 times a week. I have gone twice to therapy and it has definitly helped. I was taking pain medication every 4 hrs, but that has lessened considerably
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I found this post because I had a mammogram two days ago (on a Friday) and like the woman who posted here a year ago, I now have a long red gash under my right breast. I've been having mammograms for 11 years and while they're sure never fun, no one ever hurt me like this last tech, and I certainly never had a wound afterward! It's not openly bleeding but the skin is definitely torn and seeping. It felt at the time like she was trying to rip the breast right off of me, and now it looks like it, too. I'll be going to my ob-gyn this week and ask her what I should do, not only to heal this up but to make sure the right people know how this tech treated me. The comment from several pages back that someone from the office told the patient "that happens sometimes" with large breasts - it has never come close to happening to me in 11 years, and they're not any bigger now than they've ever been. Maybe "it happens sometimes" with techs who don't know how to handle large breasts!
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Hi all, following up from my post immediately above this one. I saw my doctor this morning and I'm glad to say she was appalled. Said she had never seen anything like this happening and she's been an ob-gyn for 34 years. She called and talked to the director of the radiology clinic while I was there. Turns out this tech is relatively new, but they are going to over everything with all the techs so they know the correct way to treat people, and what can happen if they don't. It doesn't hurt that my doctor happens to go to that same clinic for her own mammograms, and she has an appointment with them next week! So I know she will be following up, up close and personal!
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