Saggy and painful breasts after mammogram to A Cup in mid-30s

I have the exact same experience and thoughts and I’m ten years younger. It’s awful. They were great and now... I am so upset and sad about it-what has your experience been?

You are describing exactly what happened to me in detail. The tech did this to me deliberately but I would like to talk to you.

Im actually older, 39 but been pregnant never had extrem weight yo-yoing, double up on sports bras when jogging , i had a mammogram done my poor boobs did become softer they had dropped i was mad but it was “acceptable” a lump was later removed , and was told i needed another to “graduate” from treatments however i told them i no longer wanted a mammogram i was told it was better/new way 3D and omg it was exactly the same procedure!!!!!!
When i got in my car i cried, im embaressed for my fiance to see me naked , i hate seeing myself after my morning shower , i know it sounds shallow but i hate them, my fiance is sweet , supportive says im beautiful says “he cant tell” which sometimes makes me angry because i know hes lying & i have to remind myself hes trying to help me through this
I really, really want surgery they were so perky such a part of my identity & confidence & how my work clothes would fit, im beside myself i dont even know how to be normal. My seat belt feels different my million Vic Secret bras dont fit correctly, so much gapping now in the cups, just embaressing im getting married in 70 days and 6 mths ago id ordered my dress & of course it was strapless to showcase my still acceptably perky boobs, now im dreading my fitting & wedding day
I cry before work & hide it when i can from my fiance , it just sucks i feel stupid complaining but until something like thst is taken from you, no one can understand,

There is nothing shallow about how you feel about your breasts. Your are your body, that was part of you that was stollen away. You likely took good care of your body and wore a bra, you did not neglect your own body and yet they were stolen by a stranger in minutes. Someone you will never see again ruined your body. She destroyed the health of your breasts and the quality of your life. Why would you feel stupid for complaining? Its not O.K for someone to rob you of a body part that gave you your form. Its O.K to be angry and want justice. I had the same thing happen to me.

I feel that my entire breast tissue has been ripped from the sternum. Had a mammogram about 5 months ago. The plastic came down on chest about 3 inches below my collarbone. It pulled down on my chest and pain was excruciating. When I told the tech she just said it's only going to take about 2 seconds to take picture and continued. It felt a little tender as I left the clinic. I was in shock the next morning as I woke up with severe pain in that exact atea. It was red and swollen and felt bowed up and about size of palm of my hand. I started using ice pack and callled the clinic. The supervisor talked to me and assured me that this can sometimes happen but was not abnormal for some people. I continued having severe pain and using ice that day. The following day I went to the breast center but only person there was tech that did my mammogram. She acknowledged the swelling and recommended I see my Dr. Walked upstairs to gynecologist office but they were closed. Left there went to walk in clinic. I explained what happened then had xray. Dr tells me have a very deep bruise and may take couple months to heal. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago. Took my bra off and entire breast is flat, hanging and disfigured! I continued to explore the area and found huge bowed Fup area still there but no redness or pain. I do not examine brea t daily so when pain was gone I thought it was just healing. Went to gynecologist and he is referring me to breast cancer Dr. My mammogram was clear and problem is in exact area that mammogram hurt me. I am so afraid and depressed. I don't know what has been torn or damaged but I'm afraid can't be repaired. I do know when I walked into clinic for mammogram I had none of this. I don't know where to turn. So depressed and I will Never have another mammogram!

I just got home from having a mammogram, after a 12-year lapse, and just like you, my shapely A cup breasts are hanging like pancakes ... and I am sooooooooooo upset! I didn't even want this mammogram - internist kept mentioning I needed to do it.

I googled "saggy flat breasts after mammogram" hoping to find reassurance - somewhere. I found this site - read your story and the others - and now I'm super depressed - and ANGRY.

Wish I could go back in time!

Same thing happened to me. I'm 47 with perky firm breasts, I didn't want the mammogram, only an ultrasound, but the woman says she's been doing this for many years and pressured/convinced me to have a mammogram done. I did and then the next day my breasts were soft with no more firmness. My breasts are not and will never be like they were before. I regret getting a mammogram every single day.

The word needs to get out about mammograms ruining breasts. My firm perky breasts are now light and feel like jello after my mammogram. I still have burning pain even after 2 months. Mammograms ruin breasts!!

I’m 42 and just got my first mammogram. I had no idea this would happen because we’re taught to trust them. I had perfect perky C cup that I loved. The procedure was horribly painful and I was red and painful the rest of the day. I noticed immediately my right breast was sagging lower than the rest. It was very obvious and I never had asymmetry before. I want to really complain and be upset but breast cancer runs in my family. My sister is stage 4 and terminal. I try to want to think that a saggy breast is better than a mastectomy and chemo and to feel grateful. I feel like I don’t have a right to my feelings.

You should not think a saggy breast is better than a mastectomy. You should think the tech and machine destroyed your breast health. She injured you for life. Saggy breast are not healthy she stretched the coopers ligaments and skin that hold this insides in place. There are vessels and arteries that were smashed. You should be outraged. Did you go in to have a choice for cancer or saggy breasts? No. Your feelings are telling you that you were just a victim of a loss of your body part the way it's supposed to be was stolen from you. There is a FB page called Mammogram disfigurement United and another one called Mammogram disfigurement. That machine raises the risk of cancer.

In my entire life, just had one. Flattened them out. So annoyed. They did reflesh out after maybe a year? A relative I know that has them regularly has super flattened out ones. After just having the one, figured that must be the cause and stopped having them. Even the tech looked guilty after - nice and pert to flat sacks. It also hurt, but maybe a few days at most so I don't think I was injured - just normal procedure. Then it was indeterminent anyway and they did the other technique that doesn't smash - so in the end was pointless. There was a cyst or two, lumpy breast. The mammogram smashed out the cysts and I no longer have the lumps ironically. I do BSE though.

You should sue them.
I’m 53 and just had my fourth or fifth one I’ve ever had and I regret it. I did have a painful lump on my breast (although it went down and I think it was just perhaps from surfing I was doing not worried about it … neither was my doctor, but she recommended an ultrasound. but of course they have a Mammogram lined up for me. She overdid it squishing it down and it’s too late for me. As they say damage is done.

You can’t tell me that if I was following their guidelines that I would’ve had about 25 of those things, but that’s not going to ruin how my breast look?
That just makes absolutely no sense fine if you sign up for it and you don’t care, but some of us do

I had to leave before I did the ultrasound but then of course I already got the call back. Oh they need to have me come back in because they need to do more views of the breast. I wasn’t concerned with this is the third time they’ve done this when I go for one oh come back in this is the second time I have told them no thank you,

I think the propaganda machine with Mammogram’s being the holy Grail. Even doctors telling lies that Mammogram dont cause your breast to sag. Of course that’s a lie. Where are the studies showing what your breast look like before and after?
Our body has facia covering the entire thing sort of like orange, the stringy parts, or like you see on a chicken that you cook, which I use the fascia blaster tool, which helps. She does a lot of studies on using this fascia blaster, and it helps to repair the facia. You can’t tell me that squashing down the brass with such brute force. What is it 20-30 pounds of pressure squishing your breast is not going to affect it??

We have Cooper’s ligaments throughout the breast that hold them up and when you squish down on something with such force of course you’re going to damage it in the name of checking for breast cancer, but it doesn’t negate the fact that it’s not healthy for your breast to be compressed like that never mind the radiation and they all know that’s true.

They have a machine where you lay down in your breast hangs while they should work on having that, they should allow women to choose to have thermology or ultrasound, regardless of how precise that is, the Mammogram is known to be full of false positive, etc. not test can ever be exact.
But we should have a choice not be chastised or told we’re stupid because of our concerns, and not wanting our breast subject to such damage and hurt.

the fact that a man invented the machine ? Why is it the breast? The only part body EVER that needs to be squashed down like a pancake to be tested for cancer ?
They are only just starting to slightly accommodate breasts with some of the machines machines that have a slight curve to them well they should they should be accommodating to soft breasts. They are all nice to you until you go against them and say you don’t want to have one
so nothing came up on mine of interest to them besides them messing up and having the skin fold because the technician screwed up on me (the same thing happened when I had one years ago they called me back and I said I’m not going back to have that done again and then they all treated me like c**p because I went against having them take more images because they didn’t get it right. Out of four or five that I’ve had three times they’ve wanted me to go back and this is the second time I’m refusing.

You can bet ya men would not have their testicles squashed like pancakes to check for surgery. They have another way to do it by now. It seems really strange with all of technology that they use such a barbaric cancer screening tool.

Our breast are a huge part of a sexuality just look around. It’s $1 billion industry so it’s important to lots of people everywhere all the time to have such an important body part also is the most delicate part on our bodies to be treated with such blunt force and disregard, and then to lie to everyone and say oh, it doesn’t affect how your breast looks BS of course it does. It obviously pulled your breast from your chest wall.
And then there’s all the doctors lined up to fix your saggy breast because I know they’re so unsightly.
Yeah, no one’s working on a more respectful machine for women cancer detection?
I’ve been massaging my breast and treating them with red light therapy. I will never get one of those again and I think you should get an attorney all of you time to stand up to the big bully. It’s about time someone did other countries are waking up.

Also, it might be interesting to note that the manufactures of the Mammogram machine also are the same companies that treat the cancer they over treat women I mean how can you have breast cancer stage zero?
Because you have a 3% chance in the next 15 years that you may get cancer really wow OK you should aggressively treat it maybe get your breast removed

Sorry for the big rant, but I am against it as well. We should have choices and not be treated horribly because we feel this way and there are facts and there is a PubMed study that talks about the damage to your breast after crushing it in a mammogram.

my boobs are noticably smaller. they hang down and they feel strange now. they are flying in my bra and they don't shake the same. the skin is very soft, they lost their bounciness, it's basically just skin now. even my nipple is different. it's not pronounced it's just it's painted on and sags with the rest of the breast tissue.

I've been reading that everyone here on this page feels the exact same thing. I only read one person say that a procedure helped a bit.

anyone else find anything?

my breasts were small but perky, now I can feel them pull down on my skin. it's too bad no one warned me. I'm warming everyone now. it's not okay to leave people like this. it feels really off and weird. I'm very sad inside, they took something from me and I feel like getting upset at them but that wouldn't return them anyway.


if anyone has found anything that might help even minimally, please post it here. I'm so sorry everyone on here. we didn't deserve this.