excessive breast pain after mammogram

Today I had my mammogram and it hurt so bad and I noticed my breast is sagging more than it did before I went in to have my mammogram I took ibuprofen and it still hasn't worked I tried heating I tried ice I never felt this before I had my mammogram I believe in mammograms I had the 3D mammogram but I feel the nurses sometimes are rough maybe they should have a mammogram to see how it feels so they're more gentle and understanding of other women

I too have had a similar experience. I will never have one again. I’ll do a thermal scan but never a mammogram.
Stinging, intense itching and pain. Breasts seem lumper now. I was Bullied into the 2nd mammogram 4 weeks after the first. I should Have followed my gut. Just say no

Oh my goodness! I really Hope you reported her.
I still Have breast pain after 2 mammograms from almost 3 mo ago. I’m going in to get my films and then get the complaint number from the front desk.

Ladies, we are as they say preaching to the choir. I am 54 and in kidney failure and of course I had to have every test under the sun in order to get on the transplant list. My experience was horrible, as with many of you I was pressured to have the mammogram, Mine was very painful and I have a high pain tolerance. They were not happy with the first one so they did a second mammogram. Where they saw two spots one I knew was a fibrous tumor and the other was new so, they did an ultrasound and a needle biopsy. The biopsy came back as breast tissue and the doctor agree the other was a fibrous tumor. She could not believe that the new spot was just breast tissue even though that is what the biopsy said. They pressured me to let them do surgery. I want a transplant so I really had no choice. They did the surgery only to that I had a fibrous tumor (for those of you who are unaware, it is nothing) and a clogged milk duct. I forgot to tell you that they place wires in your breast so the surgeon knows where to cut. The way they do that is to do another mammogram to just make sure they have the right place and place the wire using the ultrasound and then you get another mammogram to again check to see if it is in the right place. All of this happened a year and a half ago and I am still sore even on the side they didn't cut on. Now they want me to do another one, if I didn't need a transplant I would not ever have one again. I know some people have been helped but I believe if you are faithful to do your own breast exams you should not get a mammogram. I am not a doctor and it is just my opinion.
Someone mentioned that there isn't anyone to complain to, but I have complained to all my doctors and find that they really don't care. I have had a couple of male doctors try to compare it to testicular exam.

I had the same type experience - over a year now - thought about writing a letter to the hospital board, but covid stopped so much - pain every day now

Honestly, I agree with the complaint about the techs doing more harm than good! I just had a mammogram that was not even remotely necessary and the tech was so rough with my arm that I warned her, had permanent nerve damage, I wanted to punch het! After I told her to let go, she said "oops" and grabbed my arm again! Really?! I wrote on the paper they make you sign for further studies if something shows up that I wasn't going through any other tests, no matter what! Sure enough, my doctor calls 5 days later saying I need another "closer look" and an ultrasound! Not on your life! I'd rather get eaten by a shark than go back there! By the way, the next thing was needle biopsy with a "marker" inserted! Read up on all of this ladies, markers are invasive and can move! Not a guaranteed baseline study! No breast cancer ever in 200 years in my family army doctor is threatening to drop me ad his patient if I don't have these tests! What about my body, my choice? I guess that's only for baby killers!

I had my first mammo done when I was 40 and it went fine, a little bit painful but OK. Now I had my 2. one (I'm 45) and it went very badly. I have small breasts but they used to be pointy and firm and they squeezed them so much this time it's as if they broke something inside and now they have gone sagging. They also hurt a lot and the nipples won't get soft. I'd like to sue them but I don't know how.

I experienced this last week at my annual mammogram. Technician was especially rough and rushed and even when I cried out loudly, "OUCH" she didn't even seem to care. It's been 4 days and my right breast still feels like someone ran over it.

I am so sorry for all the pain and problems everyone is having after an overly "enthusiastic" mammogram. I had one too and still have discomfort, including burning, months afterwards. I also feel one of my breasts has been mishappened? I talked with the main doctor at the clinic; however, I felt dismissed as well. I am a redhead, small, and in my early 70s. Prayers for all to feel better and for the medical community involved in mammograms to be wiser....

I’ve had horrible sharp pains for a month now after the mammogram I had on October 7, 2021. The pain is on my left side. It started around my shoulder blade and the top of my left breast and in my left armpit. It is now daily in my left armpit area and underarm area and the top of my left breast every day! Sharp pains very painful! I keep checking under my arm for damage because it feels so raw and I expect to see red irritation but nothing there. Now it’s been over a month since the mammogram and in my armpit there is two blue spots that look like possible broken veins. The blue is so bright I thought I had gotten something on me and tried to clean it off but it’s definitely damage from the mammogram. Pain every day sharp pains. I wish I had never had the mammogram and I’ll never have another one!

My wife could have written your exact note -- every single point. She has suffered now 11 months since her last one.
This happened to you 17 years ago.
How are things now?
Did you ever get resolution?

My wife could have written your note exactly.
This was 17 years ago.
Have you ever had resolution?

wish I had an answer, I experienced severe bruising on rt. side, on chest, broken blood vessels and blood clot rt. arm. also have a port. rt, breast only Looking for answers

No matter what I said, every gyno insisted I go get a mammogram at 40 and I didn't remember why I should not go but I also couldn't get a solid answer out of the doctors explaining what the procedure was but nobody said it would hurt. I just knew that I had read a book exposing the medical industry for a big fraud in my late twenties... A book called "Natural Cures" by a wealthy man named Kevin Trudeau. This man explained in his book almost everything and most things I thought foreign bc we are raised to believe doctors are like next to Gods and to not question them. However, my body has been violated by this unnecessary procedure as I gave in bc I had found a good caring gyno that was only scheduling me for one out of routine. Idk but she does seem like she cares more than any other gyn I've ever met. I read so many comments here and felt so connected and relieved I was not going crazy and had to make an account to share my own story with you all. I'm sorry for what we as women have had to endure at the hands of a misogynistic, cruel and heartless barbaric against our own female gender who hold the mother wombs of life, by the very industry that seems to be controlled and operated by vile wealthy mad science pseudo biologist who act like foreign aliens to our species. Must we ask ourselves why we have such spawn that we allow to manipulate us all into harming and traumatizing ourselves for the sake of discovering something that we may not have and most importantly, some illness that our God/Allah/Creator, has not even given our bodies the natural clues such as "symptoms" to warn us of the possible danger of a developing illness, so that we may act accordingly. Nature is not below us and wealthy men with the time and money to travel the world free to discover and even steal ancient sciences and knowledege of healing herbs and plants that God has created for us to natural sustain ourselves and our bodies with. This is madness that we are human being will be in a majority, decent, good souls but not intelligent enough to stop the insanity century after century, failed civilization after civilization, and stop allowing abnormal, vile, greedy, wicked ppl to take totalitarian control over us as a society and tell us what is right for us in their eyes and disparage any natural objections we may have individually or anything that we may know is right for ourselves instead of the excessive and extreme unnatural modern toys and tools we have fostered into existence to replace nature. These so called "preventive" measure machines and equipment in the name of "medicine" can not and never will ever replace human instinct. We are not robots and we would not ask of any touch and pain feeling animals to just endure an unnecessary torture for the sake of prevention even if that so called preventive measure may contribute to the problem and or create a problem where there was none and even if that is told to be the best we could come up with. No harm, means no harm. A little harm is never necessary in any circumstances so why do the medical industry get to dictate that it is greater than our God gave us the ability to feel says? I realize this is not a solution to fear and paranoia or even a security measure and that listening to my own body and maintaining proper health and diet is the only way. If all had access to the fruits and vegetables that is not mans creation and not patented, then we may have less of these illnesses. I recall an essay written in college by a man that said the American health has been declining and illnesses have been increasing since the inception of the first small pox scare and the vaccine they created as a preventive measure. How ironic these manmade preventive measures always come with precautions, warnings and never 100% guarantees and always with risks and side effects even possible death. Idk I rather my body tell me to go to the doctor and ask for a test myself and a medical test not be painfully traumatizing to my skin, flesh, body, and being that feels and I am entrusted with its safety and security for. The nurse who did this test was a petite asian woman who had very little visible breast and she looked very young. She was very awfully rude, demanding and just dismissive and mean and I have small breasts myself so I didn't understand how she was trying to darn near break my ribs and smash my nipples into that machine. It was disturbingly painful and I wanted to run out of their screaming bc she said its supposed to be uncomfortable and that it will only be a minute and it was horrible. I wasn't even comforted before, during or afterwards. These women they have doing these procedures seem quite clueless and barbaric. Like aren't they women themselves? Why would they think this was okay as in having even the slightest bit of human instinct? Why would some of your comments even encourage any other woman to get this again after you experienced this horrible trauma just out of your own fear and paranois? Ppl born before the 1940s are still living in their 80 and beyond today who have not even heard of a mammogram. My body is my own and I do not want to be forced to have to take any test that a gov or for profit corporation suggests I take bc they claim that after trillions of donations, there is no cure for said illness but there is money to force test for early preventive measures that is not even close to an epidemic. There are fda and who, approved chemicals, gmo, toxins and artificial additives in our foods, water supply and air and yet why is this not cause for concern? Why aren't our tax dollars spent on programs that "prevent" cancer causing agents to be in our food, water, air but instead these easily preventable pollutions are excepted as normal and not contributing to the cause of illness? I'll tell you why I think... Bc I think its a ponzi scheme and we are all being played... Poked, prodded and experimented on with our own consent from cradle to and early grave. And ppl are afraid to demand a better society for humans and rather advocate for animals to be their protected and domesticated obedient pets instead of evolving our species positively and righteously forward. There is and never was any excuse to harm other human being in the name of health or prevention of illness bc of fear of said illness bc most illnesses can be prevented naturally. Every civilization seems to have become more technically advanced but mentally and psychologically devolved and devoid of human instinct and common sense. I mean it isn't hard to figure out if we can respect animals nature that we would consume for food, we should be able to get by now that the human body is even more sensitive to touch. The brain is stimulated by touch and in no way is a painful test or even the one that take samples of our organs to claim it needs to be studied for cancer etc., in no way do these things not cause unknown trauma and disruption to the natural process of how the body runs. This is all torturous and insane. They can build a www and cell phones, weapons of mass destruction but if they cared more about the human body, they cannot invent better ways to view inside the body without poking, prodding and cutting into it? Get real. This definitely the twilight zone and I'm def being punished for something having to deal with and conform to a society that deems itself the most intelligent beings on the planet but operate as if they are the daftest beings in the universe that ever existed or maybe the most wicked and cold hearted. The body is a delicate, vulnerable, easily harmed live magical machine and needs to be treated as such. I could never trust even the doctor I like after how this last 3yrs have played out and me not avoiding this unnecessary painful mammogram. My breast were hurting so bad I couldn't get out of bed for two days and had to take off. Now I have sharp pains in my small breasts here and there and sharp pain all over my body and chest and am afraid to even touch myself too roughly. Who should be like this at 40yo? Its like I feel so violated and frightened of being harmed again or something developing from this body trauma they routinely claim is so effective. I rather not know until God tells me and take care of my body. I have no weight issues and I eat as clean as I can and don't drink or smoke so when my souls time life experience is up in this body, well on to the unknown I will go. No one can predict or stop destiny. I do not wish anybody to ever have to pay heavily for any expensive stay inside the walls of a cold hospital with cold hearted healthcare employees at any most vulnerable and worse time of illness and or possibly last days of breath. If given a choice this is a trauma within itself and its no wonder no righteously intelligent species have visited us. Apparently only the most vile wicked intellectually inclined and systemically destructive ones have visited us though bc thats who must be behind the dumbing down of a planets so called intelligent species. Yes I am livid and irritated so this rant is very long but it is also necessary I get this off my chest to other women who are also in shock and looking for answers from other women who have all our best interest at heart. I pray for us all for the sake of future generations. Much love and thanks for reading and having this blog discussion! Hugs.

When I had my first mammogram, I swear that the technician pulled my breast issue off of my chest wall. I had burning pain for over two years, and couldn't sleep on my stomach. Of course, the clinic doctor told me it was all in my head, that mammograms don't cause pain, "only discomfort." I am required to get a yearly mammogram for my medical issue coverage through my job, and I detest getting them. I just had my yearly mammo today, and the technician took offense when I explained my earlier experience and why I was frightened and uncomfortable. She was rude, not comforting, and she insulted my boobs! I mean, seriously?! I wish I could say that I was making this up! The pain is such that I feel like I am going to vomit.