This was only my second time having a mammogram so I’m not sure it could’ve just been the difference in the person doing it but it didn’t hurt this time and it did last time a lot. I’m wondering if it was because I’ve lost so much weight and I’ve lost quite a bit in my breast as well. Has anyone else experienced a difference in their mammogram experience??

I have such loose flabby breasts now, so I smooshed to really flat pancakes. I’m not super sensitive so the feeling was the same, just deflated.

I've been having mammograms for years and pre-/post- experiences have been the same except for one instance where the technician was so adept that, like you, I experienced no pain at all.

But what did happen to me after surgery was that I was summoned back for an ultrasound because apparently there was something within my left breast that needed further examination. Fortunately, nothing was wrong, and the technician told me that I had lost so much weight that my past and current mammograms looked extremely different and this was why the doctors were taking a second look.

Hmmm, I've always thought that those women with larger breasts didn't feel as much pain with mammograms because they had plenty of tissue to "smush" in the machine whereas women with small breasts had less to deal with so the machine pressed them together more. Just a thought.