Nipple reconstruction
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thanks lala
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I went to amy black website on facebook for nipple tattooing. Her pictures are VERY good. I would like to know how many she has done and see more pictures though.
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I am getting my nipple tattoo on Dec. 19th & found this blog in which the entire process was described.0 -
I am having my nipple tattooed on Dec. 19th. Woohoo! The finish line of my BC reconstruction journey! I found a blog online that explained the entire tattoo procedure from one BC patient. I thought I would share that here.
http://nancyspoint.com/tattooing-the-final-step-in-the-long-winding-road-of-breast-reconstruction/0 -
Congrats Sharon! I'm still on the fence about nipples and/or tats but am certainly excited for you!0 -
Hi ladies, congrats on your new nips. I got mine yesterday. Went to PS today to get bandages off. I also had fat grafting from my tummy to tops of implants to get the upper pole more even. I love my new nips, I don't want them to shrink. They are perfect. We are doing the gauze with the hole in it approach for the new nips right now. The nurses at PS said I need to know how to cut a snowflake and being in FL I wouldn't know. LOL....I told them I am on the lookout for elementary school children..cause I know they are cutting snowflakes for school this time of year. I am sure my co workers with school kids know. I told them I remember 3rd grade. Anyone had super bruising from the fat grafting? I am in a lot of pain but the boobs seem a lot more numb since I got the nips. They just cut a piece in the middle of the breast on the skin. I love mine, they look nothing like I imagined they would...they look so real! Like the old ones only slightly larger. Is everyone happy with theirs?
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Bruising and discomfort....esp going from sitting to standing or visa versa is very normal with the lipo for the FG. Gets better day by day. I'm sure getting some more fullness of the upper poles will be very nice.
Glad all is going well!0 -
On December 31st my New Years Eve celebration will include, a ride to the hospital, a ride into the operating room, fat grafting and my new nips.....hope they look like this: ⊙⊙
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Di - what a great way to start the new year!
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Off to have suture removal surgery. Yippee....
My PS has to knock me out so I'm not looking forward to it. I have some sutures on the native lifted/augmented side that decided not to dissolve. They keep trying to come out and seem to be infected. Hopefully this is it for me other than areola tattoos. I'm 3 weeks out from my new nip and it looks pretty good! I'm going to have him tidy up the sutures while I'm there. Send out a prayer that all goes well please!!0 -
Good luck lala, hope this procedure goes swimmingly for you!0 -
Despite surgery starting almost an hour late and me not having eaten for 14 hours and being very grumpy, all went well and I'm home. Took about an hour. PS said I definitely needed it as I had a couple of nicely infected sutures which down the line could have cause real trouble. They just didn't want to dissolve or come out! Now I'm all cleaned out on my lifted/augmented side and he tidied up my new nip (which still has lovely long sutures sticking out!) as a bonus. And I got a lovely long nap which was nice since Tamoxifen has decided it's only real side effect for me is to give me nighttime muscle/joint aches which wake me up each morning about an hour and a half before I actually want to get up!
People, I had to really fight my PS to get him to pay attention to this problem and do something about it. Glad I did. Really pays to be proactive about your health!0 -
Good for you lala. In this case 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure', huh?0 -
Good for you lala. I am having the same thoughts. I am a week out and my "absorbable" stitches don't want to absorb. They are tight and uncomfortable,sore and bruised. Whine, whine. I look like they went driving and threw me out of the car...lol. Very bruised. PS says if they don't absorb, she will need to remove them. I told her its a week later and I still get drops of blood from the new nips when they get wet in the shower. She only said be sure to keep some paper towels handy so the towels don't get stained. Hope they don't get infected. Do the majority of PS recommend ointment or not? We are using gauze on them like a bandage and it seems to be get ting stuck in the stitches, not working real well.
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Good luck with your surgery Di, hope you are super happy and psyched when you get your new nips. Good luck with the fat grafting. All I can say is frozen veggies are way better in my experience than the real ice packs. I watch TV with my frozen veggies moving the package around for various bruised spots but PS says do not use ice on the areas we filled in with fat. Says the new fat will collapse if I ice that area. Happy Holidays everyone...Christmas is next Wed!!! I already gave the fiancé his Christmas stocking so he doesn't "forget" about my Christmas gift. dunno about men...hmm. cant live with em and cant live without em...
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probably a dumb question... Does doing the origami nipple make your foob smaller?
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Layla2525---You are only a week out and probably shouldn't expect your sutures to have already dissolved. I had nip recon 4 weeks ago and still have a couple of sutures that haven't dissolved. The sutures I just had to have removed are from my exchange surgery back in March! That means they were 9 months old! And in all honesty, if they didn't cause me pain, I would have left them alone. It can take a year or more for some to dissolve but if you have any kind of pain, swelling or redness then you have to think infection. And infection can lead to all sorts of other problems. So just keep and eye on them for now. As to blood, I never had any once I got home and was given the ok to remove bandages. I had my sutures out on Tues and took the bandage off last night to shower and it looks awesome! No blood, no swelling, nice tidy sutures that he will remove himself next week. When I had the nip recon he had me smear ointment all over the nip and cover with gauze for the first week after my followup at 5 days. But for this latest suture removal, he said shower after 24 hours and cover with bandaid/gauze as needed, no ointment. Also, I also had the problem with sutures catching on the gauze with my nip so I used the cotton makeup rounds. Now with the latest, I just cover with gauze and for some reason these sutures aren't inclined to snag. Go figure!!
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Got my tattoo today on my origami nipple! Didn't feel a thing! I use bacitracin & gauze for 4-5 days & can shower. I go back in 8 weeks to see how it has lightened & if it needs any touch-up. This marks the finish line on my reconstruction! However, they are going to do a laser treatment on the scar on top of my DIEP flap to lighten the redness from the radiation damaged skin included in the scar. I am so happy!
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Congrats Sharon....so exciting!! What a great milestone to celebrate!
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Congratulations Sharon!
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Thanks lala, its so hard to know what to expect. I told my PS it was bleeding. Yes, you are so right, the gauze keeps getting tangled on the absorbable sutures. I had some Tefla non adhesive covers that we cut a hold in but they are not thick enough. Everything falls off the new round me so I gotta tape the gauze down, then it starts itching.
I tried Arnica on the bruising and I was amazed how fast it lightened that! I went from red and blue lipo tummy to yellow overnight. I bought a really small tube because I did not think it would do anything.
Congrats Sharon! I hope to get my tattoos sometime down the road in 2014.
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Tomorrow is my 1 year date since my BMX....and I am closer to the finish line....New Years Eve is my nip and fat grafting PARTY with my PS in the operating room of the hospital, since medicare is changing the rules and I can't have the surgery in my PS's surgical suite at his office
Love all his staff! (has to be a separate building). I hoping all my foobs surgeries will be over and I will only have to wait for tattoos.Avoiding holiday crowds....since I do not want to get sick between now and the 31st.
Di
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I had a really weird last visit with the PS. She told me not to worry about the new nips being a little large because they will probably shrink. I told her I hope not. I really like them this size. Besides I get the bras with the lining so they don't show. She was so glad I liked the work and then she hugged me! It was weird and somehow totally comforting. Anyone had a weird experience like that?
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I have been hugged by my oncologist who I absolutely love. She is great and I feel she really cares so I feel very comfortable. Also my female Gyn always hugs me she also had breast cancer so she gets my issues well. I guess I never gave it a second thought.
The only time I felt uncomfortable was when my last male Gyn gave me almost too many compliments on my breast reconstruction. He did not do anything inappropriate, maybe he was just being nice but I felt a weird vibe.
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During my (potentially) final visit with my male PS I thanked him for giving me some 'normal' back. I told him that I was very happy with my entire team, but he was the one who tried to restore my sense of normal. He teared up and couldn't respond for a few moments. It's reassuring to see a medical professional feel compassion for the person he/she is treating. Too often I feel like the body hosting a malady.
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Janet my last visit was not as nice. I am very happy with the work my PS did but my expectation were a bit high. Our last visit I was still talking up tweaking things. Even though he agreed some things are not perfect he did not think it was worth additional surgeries risking infections. I had wanted some fat grafting to give me more upper pole and he cannot do that at the hospital that takes my medicaid but agreed to do it for free for me if I wanted but I would have to pay for the anesthesia $2500 which I do not have. His last words were kind of like well you should be happy you had no breasts when you came to me after your BMX and now you have what looks like breasts on your chest. I did not like that. But I am trying to lose weight and I may go in for some more lipo.
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My uni-origami & tattooed nipple has shrunk to almost nothing & no longer matches my much larger natural nipple. Has anyone else had that happen & what did you do?
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My uni nipple has shrunk considerably also, I had it done last May. I am having Vinnie do the areola tattoo and hopefully he can help with the illusion . Otherwise I am just going to let it be, don't want anymore surgery to fix it.
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I've heard flattening is pretty common and trying to re do it is very difficult.
3D tattoo is an idea....and I'd suggest considering Naturally Impressive prosthesis to add the dimension you're looking for (wouldn't have to wear it all the time if you didn't want to...but for those times, like in a sports bra or swimming when you really want some dimension). They match a natural nipple-areola really well...and they stay on great! Check it out!0 -
nips & revision for me on new years eve.....if the nips don't work, I will have them snipped off....still planning a vinny trip too.
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