Topic: Implants...does your "foobs" get itchy!!!

Sep 2, 2019 03:31PM 11yrsout wrote:

Unbelievable! I'm 11 years out and have been complaining about this can't-reach itch since day one! Everyone looks at me like I'm making it up. Every single doc has shrugged at my asking WTF is going on. Yeah, I get it that it's nerve-related, but until reading all of your postings, ladies, I have never heard of someone else experiencing this! I use the same words: clawing, can't reach, happens more at night....

So, here is the power of group therapy/forums. Somehow there is comfort in knowing I'm not alone here. Okay, so we ALL claw at ourselves until the front of our T-shirts are stretched out! What now?

The woman who mentioned Vagisil has given me the only hope. I'll investigate this.

No one in my life understands how agonizing this is. I'm about to have surgery to redo my implants as one has ruptured - incapsulated. I am praying that having things fixed will magically relieve the itching.

People think that once your cancer is gone - and of course that is the #1 objective - that you're fine. My reconstruction has been agonizing for all these years. And now I have Lymphedema; a slight case compared to many, but enough to keep me from living normally and doing some things I love to do.

Oct 4, 2019 08:56PM Di2012 wrote:

I have the itchys (and swelling)........& also have the recalled Implants too! It began lt a couple months less 2 years after "installed in 2016.....I emailed my breast surgeon and she told me to contact my plastic surgeon....he order an MRI and showed 3 enlarged lymph nodes under lefty and 1 enlarged lymph node (righty) behind my chest wall....BUT not on the MRI when cancer was confirmed at DX. (No reaction by PS

My Oncologist ordered another MRI 6 months later, and again at 1 year later...along with a ultrasound .....lymph nodes still there after 1.5 years......the last was in May 2017

I saw my BS this week and although he does not think it is anything to worry about, but HE wants to remove the Implants and send everything to pathology...(righty node cannot be removed,) and reconstruct my chest, with or without TINY implant which will NOT be under my chest muscles.

(Had to have my 13.5 year old Boston Terrier, Jelly Beans , euthanized this afternoon..I am.very VERY sad and so are her 3 " kids"....her only male dog, BUOY, looked and sniffed at her, in her little "coffin shaped " box the vet put her in for me to take her home for burial, and began whining and howling...the " girls" Chu Chu, and Vivi sniffed her and would walk away, and go look at her again and again they looked very sad.......they knew (as well as us humans) that she was having seizure more and more often, and today was terrible IT WAS time.)

DI

Oct 9, 2019 09:09AM OnTarget wrote:

I had some crazy itching of my palms and soles of my feet with my chemo, and I think it is part of peripherial neuropathy, so essentially a nerve issue. At the same time, my nerve damaged areas around my foobs was itching too, including my armpit and back of my triceps where I'm numb.

I took Gabapentin and the symptoms went away. Not sure if that is the cure, but it helped me!

Nov 6, 2019 01:50PM WC3 wrote:

Yes. I get an unscratchable itch on the cancer side and the only thing that seems to help is putting the surgical bra back on.

Jul 23, 2020 06:11PM B123 wrote:

So glad to find this post! I am 10 years out and started having itching on my R side which was the effected side, happens off/on through out day. Driving me crazy because I can’t itch the itch. Why is this happening? I had a breast MRI in March, all good. These implants are not what I expected. Why does it itch and how do you make it stop?

Jul 24, 2020 05:39AM B123 wrote:

Ok will look further, thank you.

Aug 8, 2020 06:49PM Di2012 wrote:

LOVELIT.

Do you have textured implant?

I really feel that was my problem and shortly after my plastic surgeon removed my textured iimplants, I felt so much better.....I have no implant now, but small "foobs" made/formed from my of my own fat from my inner thighs.....they are warm.....rather than my COLD chest with big implants.....this fits my now 116lb body so much better....

Di

Aug 9, 2020 02:55PM Di2012 wrote:

LOVELIT.

My implants were Natrelle brand, (also silicone, & textured), but had a texture on the outside of the implants...maybe to keep them in place. They were recalled, but the implant company discouraged having them remove if one DID NOT have any problems.

I had to wait a month after my bilateral MX, BEFORE starting reconstruction .......(due to a post op infection for my hip area....10 YEARS previously!!!!!!) so l know what it looks like w/o implants.....2 BIG DENTS in my chest!

Di