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Melissa BearTrix

You should speak up for sure ... It's the last thing they want to do is hurt anyone ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

Wonderdog 🏳️‍🌈

@MelissaBearTrix So painful on one of mine I fainted out of the machine.
The bruising! The fuss! The embarrassment!
After that I did them seated (which most techs won't tell you about). Helped slightly.
"Mammograms pointless on your breast tissue anyway," said the surgeon, and would send me for MRIs.

Ashwin Dixit

@MelissaBearTrix

I don't have boobs. I have furry moobs. And now you made me consider a career as a gentle human alternative to a mammogram machine. A human mammogrammer! It might be fun to squeeze boobs for a living. I'll be gentle and sensitive to the ladies needs, promise.

webhat

If you couldn't vote in the poll above, and are still interested in the results, here's a poll for you

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Allinrep

@MelissaBearTrix Slightly uncomfortable, but not at all painful.

That’s a moray

@MelissaBearTrix Excruciating, like kicking your little to and splintering the bone.

Hotter, More Cross Bunny

@MelissaBearTrix

I find it depends on the technician. I get them yearly and there's one technician I refer to as The Mamajama.

Old Woofian

@MelissaBearTrix I am a man but I have voted on behalf of my beloved. Her last mammogram resulted in a bruise that lasted over a week. After conferring with her she went for Painful option.

eladnarra

@MelissaBearTrix It depended on the technician, but sometimes it was definitely painful. Being smallish but with dense breast tissue may have contributed to that? Or perhaps getting diagnostic scans rather than screening.

Although the worst part was getting out of breath because I had to stand and hold my breath. POTS (plus undiagnosed low ferritin) made that tricky!

eladnarra

@caity @MelissaBearTrix Oh no!

I'm glad they now let you sit. I tried to ask for that because I have POTS, but none of them ever let me... Oh well, at least I don't need them anymore, sans boobs!

(((JaneinNJ)))

@MelissaBearTrix @Compassionatecrab Like a butcher handling meat.

BeeCycling

@MelissaBearTrix I went for uncomfortable, but it does border on painful. I think it only being a short time makes it stay on the right side of painful for me. If it went on much longer , it would be painful for sure.

But it is definitely an individual thing. When I had mine last year I was sitting in the little changing room before my turn and could hear the lady who was in there getting hers done and she was saying how much it hurt and sounded quite distressed.

Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️

@MelissaBearTrix i can’t vote cause I have not bad one yet.
I do hear it is more painful for those with smaller breasts.

Leaving me wondering how it compares to “wearing” nipple clamps…

BeeCycling

@MelissaBearTrix Made me quite nervous as I didn't recall the two I'd had before being that bad. But when I had mine, it was fine. Not a barrel of laughs and glad when it was over, but no big deal.

(But I'm someone who thought "If this thing wasn't so noisy I could go to sleep in here" about being in an MRI tube. So I am kind of sanguine like that.)

Malvan

@MelissaBearTrix last time I did it was not painful at all, not as I remembered it earlier. Felt like the machine was new and could do it without squeezing so hard?

Cetraria

@MelissaBearTrix more specifically, really uncomfortable and I will absolutely be taking NSAIDS afterwards and might be taking the rest of the day off work because of significant discomfort

neurotic_fiend_friction 🐚

@MelissaBearTrix

I’ve been fortunate to have very good techs who are always very careful to keep the pinch out.

My insurer is ass, but those techs are the best.

Dr. Alissa, Turbo-Nerd

@MelissaBearTrix I had a mammogram due to a breast cancer scare and I went in so afraid because everyone had always told me how painful they are and, for me, I don't even think it was uncomfortable. It was some pressure, but I barely felt it.

Ambivalena :verigold:

@MelissaBearTrix For me it has only been hurtful once of all the times I've done it. Not sure what was different that time though.

Angie

@MelissaBearTrix All these reasons above is still why I will not get one.