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Help for edema post double mastectomy
Bonjour from France and OUF! This gets old really quickly, doesn't it? I'm 11 days post-op after both breasts were removed (sentinel nodes only removed on the right side as the tumours on the left remained in situ) and muscle expanders were placed under my pectoral muscles for the future reconstruction. I'm having a lot of…
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Weird numbness after lumpectomy
I had a right side mastectomy in 2020 but my cancer came back like a movie villian everyone thought was dead and got a tumor on the same side with an affect lymph node. I did chemo and had a lumpectomy and 9 lymph nodes removed. I had numbness from the mastectomy but with the new surgery I have numbness just above my right…
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Other Abnormal Tissue found after Mastectomy
I had a single mastectomy a week ago and am still waiting for pathology results next week I had a 18ml tumour IDC identified at mammogram and ultrasound and we know positive lymph node involvement from a needle biopsy so waiting to understand the extent of this after ALDN. However surgeon said he also discovered some other…
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Surgery in a few weeks, three questions
Hey all, I'm heading in on Feb 11, and I have three questions today. 1. Those of you who had a nerve block, how long did it actually last? I'll be getting Exparel, and the info on it says up to 72 hours. No painkiller ever lasts as long for me as the bottles say it should, and I'm wondering if this might follow that…
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Side sleeper with tense back muscles - Help!
I can't remember ever being anything but a side sleeper. I have a lot of tension in my upper back, which can obviously affect my lower back. Sleeping on my side with a thin pillow between my legs is most comfortable for me. Sleeping on my back tends to exacerbate any pain I have in my lower back. I also have problems…
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Lumpectomy vs. Mastectomy with ATM gene variant?
Hello everyone. I have my last chemo appointment on Friday (so worried it's coming to an end) and met with the breast surgeon today. She said that I'm still a good candidate for lumpectomy, even though she discussed a mastectomy as well. She also told me that I had a modest response to chemo (Taxol every week plus…
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Re-excision under only local? Scheduled tomorrow.
Hello, Long story short I contracted Covid. The hospital has cancelled my oncoplastic lumpectomy (which I’m devastated about but can’t even processes what a mess my breast will be now). They told me they are doing to do a re-excision while I am awake using local anesthesia now bc they won’t intubated me for four weeks post…
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post-mastectomy/reconstruction
I am about to get a preventative double mastectomy with immediate reconstruction. There is a small chance they will decide to put in an expander rather than do the immediate construction, but they won't know this until the time of surgery. I have a couple questions about this. 1) Is there a big difference in recovery…
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Direct to Implant with Mesh?
Hi all I was hoping for some information on any of you who have got Accelular Dermal Matrix or ADM mesh implants following a reconstruction after mx. I would love to hear what your experience was like, what were the results like and how fast you recovered after. I have a large area of DCIS 8cm intermediate grade and having…
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February 2022 Surgeries
As of today I am officially scheduled for 3rd of February, having left mastectomy and lymph node removal of the same side. I had neoadjuvant chemo (TCHP) and hoping to have no cancer cells left but ultrasound shows some left overs, if they are active I will go on with Kadcyla. Anyone else scheduled for February? I will try…
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Trying to make sense of surgical pathology changes
Hi, I'm hoping the wise folks on this site can help me with some questions. I had a lumpectomy on 1/4 and just got my pathology report back yesterday. The good news is that the one sentinel node they found and took out was negative. Also margins were clear (but she did have to take a lot more out than she thought, had a…
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Outpatient masectomy becoming the norm in Covid times?
Had 1 of 2 surgery consults and learned my great local hospital is doing "elective" surgeries outpatient only (with max 24 hours observation from entry to exit). With no support person allowed in facility, wondering how drain training even happens. Just sharing my trepidation. Also another unrelated learning, I should have…
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Hormone status different after surgery?
Not sure where to ask this. Has anyone heard of hormone status change between the initial biopsy and the surgery? I found info on it possibly changing on mets, but this pathology was done on the breast tissue. The original biopsy pathology was er+ pgr + her-. I did 6 months of treatment, then had surgery. The pathology now…
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Radiation after DMX
Happy new year everyone!! I have a question and I know everyone is different. But, how many of you after neoadjuvant chemo, and a double mastectomy with clean margins and no lymph nodes have had to have radiation too? I would like to see studies on percentages etc. but I really can find anything. Yes my original tumor was…
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Shoulder Pain - scapular winging after SLN biopsy
I had a sentinel lymph node biopsy on December 2 and everything went very well, no spread, and the incision has healed nicely. Initial swelling under my armpit and that is going down as well. However, the past week I've developed extreme pain in my right shoulder blade and arm, same side. It is almost unbearable, hard to…