flashdif

Okay, into the fray...

I have 3 year old salines, and one is starting to get smaller...is this a slow leak, or as someone mentioned, a tendancy for them to shrink?  I'd NEVER heard that  before.  Am I going crazy?  Is there such a thing as a very slow leak?  I will go see my surgeon AFTER the back to school thing....

Thanks,

Flash

My friend's brother in law has prostate cancer, and the chemo has stopped working.  We are looking for a support site similar to this one, and googling only gets you so far.  Does anyone have any good sources of online communities?

THANKS SO MUCH

Flashdif

Good luck and GREAT results!

When you are up to it, please share the insider's guide!

Flash

I used Dr. Sandra Margolas in Stamford, a plastic surgeon, and was VERY VERY happy.  She is low key, a woman, and really listened.  No surgeon as a diety experience.

My oncologist tells me that my results are among the best he's seen, expecially after radiation.  I had a bilat mast with implants.

It is a very personal decision, I went to see two.  Good luck to you!

Flashdif

I waited a year for the nipple, and then did some tucking.  I don't have the tatoos yet;  I figure they can do that some future time.

I actually like the nipples, but was very happy without them.  I don't think I'd have had surgery just for them.  But they are, a year later, nice to have. 

You can decide to get them whenever or never.  :  )

Flashdif

Hi:  Congrats on the 5 and 7 year!!!

I am a 5 year survivor next month;  I was dx at 43 in 2003, and chemo put me in chemopause (no periods) until NOV 2005 when I had an oopherectomy upon finding out my BRCA status.  My period never came back in the two years between....

Before the chemopause, my periods were still regular, but I had some perimen symptoms (e.g., migraines right before, etc.).  It is a very variable thing.

Good luck to you,

Flashdif

Hey, sorry to be AWOL for awhile.

Leaking implant?  Like life wasn't complicated enough???

Hang in there, and best wishes for a healthy and uneventful 2008!!!

Flashdif

Jill,

That just sucks.  If the rads help the chemo effectiveness, that's great.  Kick some cellular butt.

Sending hugs, wishes and strength,

Flashdif

Wow, brca 1 and 2...

I had no family history of cancer at all, an my (male!) oncologist made me take the genetic test...he thought 43 was too young, and wala, braca 2 (I refuse to capitalize this just now...)Inherited down from my dad, with primarilly males, so never showed up, although now I do wonder if my father's mother didn't die of cancer (recorded as something else)...

so, My sister is clear, left to me to check my two sons when they are of age (now 11 and 14). 

I read your story with amazement.  You are clearly being looked after by some benevolent spirit. 

Please don't worry until there is something to worry about.  It is so easy to go down that well greased shoot of fear.   

Please let us know and I send my best wishes for strength and peace.

Flashdif

Hi:

I did the lump/chemo/rad;  then had a fals alarm lump the following year.  At that point, I finally did do the genetic test, ended up with BRCA2 (no family history whatsoever).  The team met and decided I was large breasted with very dense breasts and that I'd be constantly checking out stuff and hard to monitor...and even if they HADN"T said that, I never ever wanted to do another false alarm.  I never want to do chemo /rad again.  To me, so what if they get it early, I still have to deal with it all.  And what if they miss it?  Even with all the MRI's in the world...???  For me, the bilat was a no brainer, and 2 1/2 years out, I'm STILL GRATEFUL I made that decision.  I've never, ever, ever, even duirng reconstruction challenges, regreted it for one tiny second.

Just me, I know. 

It is a very personal choice.  Listen to all of us, then ask your own soul.

Wishing you a long healthy life,

Flashdif