Implant Exchange (oYo) ~ Anyone go/stay SMALL?? (B cup)
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Don't do it!! lol!! .... don't know about you guys ~ but it's Girl Scout Cookie season over here...
Damn you, Tagalongs!!!!!!
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Wah ha ha ha!!! My DH brought two boxes home and I never saw them!!! But I AM already 1/4 of the way through this Toblerone....at least its DARK Chocolate- full of antioxidents, RIGHT?0 -
I hear your nerves, Susan - I had a bit of a freak-out last night, I am not sure why, but all of a sudden I panicked over all the unknowns...I HOPE I haven't set my ideals too high, it's just so damn nervwracking to not know what I will look like...sigh...I need to shake this funky feeling...only 10 days to go...
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holy cow I just had to "talk myself down" from eating a SECOND girl scout cookie - my daughter is selling them and I have boxes galore in my house, they are wrecking the time I spend at the gym!!!
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Only one cookie and 1/2 of a Toberlone ~ that's actually some pretty impressive willpower!!
I have to keep reminding myself ~ the skinnier my waist is ... the better my new boobs will look!
I can't believe how excited/nervous I am for you too, Megan! I have such a hard time keeping up with the some of the other threads (like Exchange City, Tissue Expanders, Implant Sizing, etc) because they move so fast it's too hard for me to keep up and get to really "know" everyone....so you are my first BCO person I feel like I "know" who is about to do the exchange.
Do you have pics on Timtam's site or I thought you said you weren't able to? ....though that does sound kinda creepy that I'm asking if I'm able to see you topless! 
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Hey there ladies. I am still recovering from ny exchange yesterday. I am probabky a B but I am covered up with the surgical bra to realy take notice. My PS had to do a small lipo for a fill above my right breast. I am not in so much pain but just really sore. The stitches went underneath. I also went for an eye lift since i figured, why not, since I was already under. So I was like extreme makeover, new boobs, new eyes anda little lipo
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Susan if it was anywhere else, it WOULD sound creepy wanting to look at the pix!! Ive been looking and commenting and I find it odd when I hear myself saying "her boobs look GREAT!" I feel a little boob obcessed. I need a job, LOL
Arlene - Congrats!!! an eye lift too? You lucky girl! Extreme Makeover - BC edition. That could be a new show. I think everyone needs to see how brave and, well comedic we all are!!!
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Arlene ~ Congrats on being on the other side!! An eye lift...as in the upper eyelids? Mine are quite droopy like my dear mother's (eyelids ~ not breasts
My mom had hers done later in life because it was effecting her eyesight. I would LOVE to have mine done before they got that bad ~ how much extra was that to have done? How long will you have stitches on your lids? And I'm getting lipo with my exchange too ~ I think I'm even more excited about that than the boobs! Sue ~ I feel weird commenting on people's boobs on that site too! Though it sure was a "mental lifesaver" when I was going through this because it was really hard to find "real" photos of breast reconstruction, especially nipple/skin sparing. Seeing those women's real photos ~ the good AND the bad outcomes ~ really helped keep me feel more empowered and less nervous about the whole process.
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Susan - I am JEALOUS of all of you who can post pics...it's a long story, but I am not on my personal laptop (mechanical issues) and my hub would go thru the ROOF if I ever uploaded pics from a computer that is not just for personal use...plus, I actually have zero clue how to do it
The pic forum is a pretty amazing place - I feel badly when I go there and I don't have my pics up, so I really try to limit my time out of respect...I do comment when I check out the pics, tho.
...seriously, I would LOVE to show you my TE's foobs, boobs, scars, or whatever else I could
...I've got zero issues about that since this whole ordeal, and to be honest, I'd prefer to be showing you guys pics of me topless, than my friends whom I have "flashed", they are wonderful friends, but don't get it like you guys do! ...and thanks for the "cyber" support, I so love that I can come on BCO and feel really supported by you gals! I'm feeling a little panicky about exchange and there's no one in my "real world" that gets it, so I don't fret and vent to anyone other than my hub, and he's been a trooper, but even I feel bad for him having to listen to me!
I'm going to be watching for you're exchange too, Susan - it's true that some of the other threads, as awesome as they are, move so fast that I can't keep up, but I'm watching out for all you lovely ladies
Arlene - wooohooo for exchange!!! Congratulations!!! I love that you got a little makeover while you were at it...ok, can I just say that I am jealous of you ladies who are getting a little lipo? I would loooove to get rid of the little post-baby "pouch" I've been carrying around and will never lose!!!
Sue - you're funny! ...with all of the great attitudes and wit around this thread, I bet we'd have a captive audience
Thanks for cheering me up & taking my mind off of the panic for a while - you guys are the best!!!
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Megan - LOL!!! flashing your friends!!! I can imagine what they think!
The day after surgery, my BFF came to visit me in the hospital. I took her hand and brought it to my TE because it was so high up (about 2 inches from my clavical), hard and weird feeling. She said "Oh, now I get to feel your boob?" I just laughed and said "oh honey, its not a boob anymore...you gotta feel this". I havent shown her my mx scar or anything since...she probably wouldnt care. BUT I keep mock-threatening my other friends that I will flash them and they scream like little girls "NOOOO I dont wanna see it!!!!"
As for the pix....I never thought I would let my husband take pix of the girls and now we are doing a whole photo journal of the process....Ill be sure to post when Im done. Heck why not...seems like there are other petite chicks around here who would like to get an idea of what its like to go from 0 to 10 in 2 simple surgeries.
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Sue - yes - I might be a bit "open" about surgery
I've shown my 2 sis-in laws, my own sis, mom, and 4 or so CLOSE friends...huh, maybe that IS alot I get a TON of support and everyone is amazed at how natural they look, buuut, I have also have learned that there are others out there not as comfortable about the whole thing as I am, (this doesn't include the people I've flashed! ;-) there are definitley times I can tell that it is an uncomfortable subject, and I have learned to back off...The funny thing is as open as I am to talking about it with people I care about/who care about me, I'm verrry private about it with with people outside my "circle". I don't tell just anyone about BC or what I've been thru... As brutal as TE's can be they serve an amazing purpose, and especially after the nipple sparing mx, I just feel that it is enlightening to share how far mx has come...
I do reign myself back in when I get all passionate-talking about the surgery and how my scars are so tiny, and when it comes to explaining TE's, well...I forget how intense this can be for a person unaffected by this (geesh, we all know how just crazy-intense it is going thru it)...but after it is all said and done, it really is an amazing & bizarre procedure!
I do have pics I've taken along the way, but for now, they stay in the camera...man, I gotta get our other personal laptop up & running - I just sooo want to flash ya'll!!!
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fire....we are doing our last cookie booth sale on Sunday....I have managed to stay away from the cookies, but not all the other junk....all the cookies are delivered...just our 12 boxes sitting in the spare bedroom...time to put them up on the shelf in the closet
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We have 31 boxes left...I fell into them in a BIG WAY! So funny that we all have these %#$@ cookies! Anyone need a full case of Thin Mints? Willing to ship it out!!! My big news is that I gave up sweets for lent. So, I really need to ship the decadent little thing minties out! Please help...
Still so excited about my date with the PS. I just love him. This must be that dr. love thing. My TEs are really feeling like coconuts. They look SOOOO weird. Anyone else think so? I wish I could flash you all and show you them. They are just sitting on my chest. I feel like it is weird looking. I need to back on the picture site....
Tried on a dress that came in the mail yesterday. For spring break trip. WOW. I am so busty. Anyone else thinking this? Even my daughter said "mom, you look so BOOBBY, like Gloria (in Modern Family)" If only.....
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Megan - wow you DID show a lot of people!!! LOL! How cool!
Anniemomofthree - freeze them!!!
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Megan ~ I've "flashed" some close friends too! ... it's funny because a few of them were really scared/nervous to look...and then were glad they did because it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be (helps that I had NSM though). I've had a couple of them "feel" them too and they were fascinated! Then of course, there are my sisters...they were feeling me up all over the place! lol! We are all pretty close...a little TOO close sometimes!
Sue ~ I do get some friends that absolutely do NOT want to see...and I don't force it on them... but sometimes I wish they would because they would see it's not as bad as they imagine!
Annie ~ I get excited to see my PS too! lol! I don't have the "coconut" effect since my TE's are underfilled... Have a great trip in your new Booby dress!
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My favorite flash story. A 2-3 weeks after my surgery I walked into this little accessory shop and started checking out the hats in anticipation of chemo hair loss. It was just me and the owner in the story. We started talking and I told her I why I was looking for a hat.
Well it turns out she went to the same place I went to for mammograms (also ticked off at them). Once the found out she had breast cancer she switched to the hospital I'm being treated at. Same BS! She flashed me her finished foobs. I flashed my in the oven foobs. Yes right in the shop. We had different PS.
Reminds me I need to check in on her. We connected on Facebook. Oh and even funnier was when I stopped by in December. At first she didn't recognize me. I was wearing a scarf. She remembered me with hair.
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Susan - I think some of my friends who took a look-see might have been aprehensive at first, too - but then were just so facinated by NSM. It's the same with trying to explain TE"S being like coconuts, I've definitley been like "ok, just give me your hand and feel this" (over the clothes;-) again, the facination-factor sets in...
...I too, am a member of the "touchy-feely-to-a-fault" friends&family club!!!
Lago what a cool story, I haven't met anyone yet (in real life) going thru bc, let alone who shared the same surgeon! I am always amazed at the connection women going thru reconstruction have, there is such a comraderie and support, even if you just met - truly amazing!
Karen & Annie - I have hidden the extra boxes in my laundry room and am determined to stay away...going into surgery #2 makes me think of being pregnant with my two kids, You gain the infamous "babyweight" and then you get pregnant again, then we allll know how hard it is to lose that! So, going into this surgery I have made a point of staying under my normal weight by a couple pounds. factoring in the "down-time" post-surgery, it'll be spring - and we all know what that means, so long hiding under those forgiving sweaters! ...I'll be damned if I unveil the new girls and my belly is bigger than my chest
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LOL! My concern to...I will have both a mega-foob and a mega-muffin!
My muffin is back....I did miss it!
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fire-dancer you would be surprised how common. I live in a high rise. We don't have balconies but they put grills community grills on our grounds. My husband was grilling and chatting with one of the usual grillers. It was just after I was diagnosed. He opened up to my husband that his wife had just been diagnosed. She is being treated by the same BS, PS and onc. Had I needed raditation we would have had the same rad onc too. (My husband recommended the BS, PS and onc).
I have also met several other women from this forum that had the same BS and onc. I have met another gal from this site last weekend when she came in state for business. We had our BMX the same month and started our chemo the same day. Also met another woman from Ohio that was in town for a trade show. 20 year survivor!
It's a small world.
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Wow, Lago ~ you sure are running into alot of BC people ~ funny story about you and the store owner flashing eachother in her shop!
I haven't found many that are my age... it usually is someone's mother or older relative they know who has BC. Also, I'm realizing that not as many people are as "open" about having BC as I am. I noticed quite a few women are more "hush-hush" about it and keep it pretty quiet...whereas I'm the opposite and have no problem talking about it with people.
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It is strange - i know five women who live within one mile that have been recently diagnosed and are youngish (early 40s like me). One contends it is from the chemicals at the golf course that is nearby....
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Annie ~ that would be a scary thought! We just never know what the "perfect storm" is/was for us BC gals?
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I don't know if this is the right place for this, but I am planning on staying small... My question is this, my PS said that if I don't go larger than a B cup, then I don't need a TE. Does anyone have any experience with this? I am planning on immediate reconstruction following nipple (hopefully) sparing Mast.
Thanks... Val
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wow Lago - yours seems to be a small world...
...I only know of my family/extended family members who have had bc, like my mom, love her dearly, but she brushed cancer & chemo under the rug when I was in my 20's, so I know not to open up that can of worms too often! I don't wish bc on anyone, but it sure would be nice to run into someone who understands this stuff, too...
I'm pretty open about it too, Susan...it's not a secret, but I don't shout it out either ;-) Like today, I was at the gym and I have had to stop my aerobics classes till exchange surgery (then I will do PT) and just do ellipticle due to a possible frozen shoulder/winged scapula or who knows what (stems from bmx, but only just started to bother me), but anyway - a guy I know asked why I wasn't taking anymore classes and I realllly didn't want to get into it, although I wonder if he's noticed I'm not flat as a board anymore...
He kept on asking about the shoulder/nerve issue how it happened, etc and all I felt like saying was 'a prior surgery severed a nerve...blah blah blah...' he meant well, but I just wasn't into talking about my boobs (or lack thereof!) with him! But most of the time I'm pretty willing to talk "shop" with the right people... Interesting & yes...scary, Annie - that's a frighteningly large amount of young bc's for one area! I don't carry the brca gene, but yeah, I'd put money on my good 'ole family genes for my bc...
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Val - Welcome! THis is clearly a question for whippetmom. Do a search for her in the search button and you will find her...
Good luck! Keep us posted...
Annie
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Hi Val - I was offered "one-step" as an option, but was told I would probably be smaller than I started out, which was a A+/B- size, so I opted for TE's. I did have a nipple-sparing, too and I think you will be pleased with your results, it is a pretty amazing option for surgery.
...I believe if you go look around the forum you might find a thread "One-Step with Alloderm" or something like that title. I'll go and see if I can find it to help you get to it...There will probably be someone who has had that surgery who might know more about it...But you are always welcome to come and chat here!
Hope that helps a bit!!!
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For more info on One Step (I believe that is what you are wondering about?) Go to the forum: Breast Reconstruction, scroll down till you see the thread: One Step with Alloderm - Anyone?I'm not 100% this is fits your needs, but maybe it will be a place to start.
I'd cut and paste for you but I am computer-illiterate and it didn't work, oops! BCO is an amazing site with SO much information, this thread is a great one too - we are all pretty much interested in staying on the small-side after reconstruction and the ladies are great!
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Yeah when people start asking why I cant do this or that and I say surgery - they start getting curious. When I said "oh I cant lift anything more than a few pounds right now" they usually say "oh shoulder surgery" and I let it go. Whatever. When people start noticing the girls I may have to change my story.
Im also hearing about other people's BC...especially at church. It seems like an epidemic. They are all varying ages though. I even had one Japanese friend of mine tell me all about her MX years ago. She was saying that no one talked about it then and no one offered reconstruction. Thats sad. I'm loving the support I am getting! Especially talking about it all on this board!!!
Val -welccome! I am sure that would depend on where you were before and how much skin sparing they can do. I didnt have nipple sparing and my skin will need to go through some growth before I can get back to where I was (and a little larger). Ill still be a B but definitely needed the TE. If I only wanted to go back to original A, I couldve done flap options....but I didnt have enough tummy to offer up to the boobs to make two nice ones.
And speaking of extra tummy...I am not buying a THING until my figure figures this all out!! All of this protein and not exercising....Im expecting some more muffin soon! But now that I have the green light to exercise, Ill be shaking my booty next week for sure!!!
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Val -
also another thread that might help is: forum - Breast Reconstruction, thread: Nipple Sparing Mastectomy with Immediate Reconstruction
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Hi all! I had a bmx with TE's (filled to 250) on 2/28 which I have sailed through with little problem. Mostly soreness not much pain. Two drains came out last Tuesday with the other two scheduled for next Tuesday (although one has suddenly started outputting a lot at night, so might have to wait). Chemo scheduled for 2/22 depending on drain removal.
I was a full C/small D and told him I wanted to be only a full B so that is what we are working on. He thinks I should have 550 cc's.
My PS figured out my personality when I showed up at the first meeting with 4 pages of questions which he sat and answered one at a time. He came in for surgery grinning and asking me how many pages of Questions I had. I gave him a note before surgery that told him I want to be number one on his page for best results. Apparently the nurses in the surgical room (one was my friend) applauded him at the end.
Last week, at the follow-up I proceeded to tell him that all my husband's friends feel that they should disuage me from the smaller idea and have said they feel they need to be part of the selection process for him...lol...The PS gave me one of his 550 silicone implants that I plan to take to our outing this weekend with the group. He was laughing himself silly. Mind you, I am 55 years old, not a 25 year old with tight everything!
I am looking forward to the look on their face when I whip out the show and tell!
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