I originally planned to do a bmx with implants due to lack of tissue but have been nervous upon hearing reports of breast implant illness, especially among people with a personal or family history of autoimmune disease. I have Hashimoto's and Raynaud's and wonder if anyone else has these or other autoimmune diseases and…
hello all I am scheduled for my expander removal Tomorrow, and will be getting my implants put in. The implants are going to be silicone. I keep asking my plastic surgeon about Saline, because I hear silicon is bad and can cause many complications, including cancer in the future. Am I being irrational? Should I be…
I am looking for a new plastic surgeon. I am actually at the follow-up stage with my current plastic surgeon. Unfortunately, he is out of network on my health insurance (which I did not know until after I first met with him), and that is creating all kinds of financial concerns. I can't take one more minute of those…
Just received Second diagnosis, same breast after 16 years. DCIS this time, last time Invasive, high grade, clear nodes, Lumpectomy, chemo, radiation in 2006. Will see surgeon in late April 2022. Likely not a candidate for more radiation to left breast. Assuming a mastectomy will be needed, and trying to decide if I should…
Good evening all. My SIL was diagnosed with IDC in Dec. She is scheduled for mastectomy and SNB next week. She plans to do reconstruction with TE but here’s my concern. Her BS is at one hospital and her PS is at another. That means there will be no TE inserted during her UBX. But 10 days later she goes to another hospital…
Hello ladies. I need help!! I currently am not happy with the projection size of my expanders. And I’m afraid when I get my implants I will be unhappy. I currently have 500cc expanders. And on my body they are not large. About a very small C or B. I want a full C. My PS said he would put in 560cc implants. But after…