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Surgery - Before, During, and After

Archives for October 2021

Temps after surgery.
Can anybody comment on their temperature after surgery? I had BMX w/immediate implant reconstruction on 10/8, outpatient. By Monday my temp was 101 and my breasts were quite red, so I was prescribed Cipro and Doxycycline. I took as directed, currently on Day 8 of 10, and hadn't been over 99 since last Wednesday. Yesterday…
November 2021 Surgeries
It looks like time to to start a November thread. My left side mastectomy (no reconstruction) is scheduled for November 12. This is my second rodeo; I had a Mx and ALND on the right side April 1. Midway through chemo, a checkup mammogram and subsequent biopsy found LCIS on my “good" left side. Based on my history (lobular…
Pathology after surgery versus biopsy pathology
I am just curious. Has anyone on here had a different result from what the biopsy results were to when surgery was done and the pathology from it? In other words was there anything less or more than what the original biopsy said when they did surgery and the results from it? Just wondering should I prepare for any…
Other breast: To keep or toss?
I was diagnosed with DCIS a few months ago. I had lumpectomy with bilateral reduction, then needed to have a mastectomy instead since not all of the DICS was removed. In the end I had 3 separate sites, two of them high-grade, although none had yet progressed to invasive BC. I didn't want to deal with reconstruction, so the…

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