1st mammogram after BC - pain

Sorry no one has answered you,hopefully this will get you bumped up to the top where you may get an answer.  Love from Ann

Hi Beatthebreast me again, since no one else has answered I can only tell you that I am also 18months on from my lumpectomy and lymph node removal and I still cannot lie on that side in bed, the mammogram did not give me any probelm other than being painfull but I will have to be really careful that I don't knock myself as it really hurts.  So you are probably correct but if you are still worried phone a BC nurse.  Love from Ann

Hello.  I'm upto year 6 on follow up mammograms after WLE on left.  My left breast is definitely more painful during mammogram and feels a bit odd for couple of days afterwards.  I found out at last mammogram that they had put about a dozen clips in there during surgery - no one had ever told me before.  I think this now accounts for the random pains and ache I still get in my breast as it's a foreign object.   I was told after surgery that on going pain was common due to the nerves being cut.

Personally if it was still troubling me 2 weeks on and as you are still really in healing phase I would speak to my BC nurse in case it's triggered inflammation or infection.  Peace of mind may even make the pain go away.  I find when I'm stressed as my annual mammogram approaches I notice every twinge, pain in my breasts then once I've had all clear it calms down again.