I know when someone has a breast lift, reduction and/or implants your breast will swell two to three times what their breast size will actually be. I believe it's called "drop and fluff". ; / So, that may be what your experiencing. You can Youtube breast reduction, implants or reconstruction. They are different types of breast surgery, but none the less breast surgeries that can cause the same type of effects after surgery and see if their are any videos that can answer your question(s).
- Damaris
- Gainesville, FL
- Member Since Sep 2012
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- Survivor: Breast Cancer
- Patient Info: Finished active treatment less than 5 years ago, Diagnosed: over 11 years ago, Female, Age: 54, HER2 Positive: Don't Know, ER Positive: Don't Know, PR Positive: Don't Know
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- Survivor: Breast Cancer
- Patient Info: Finished active treatment less than 5 years ago
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Damaris asked a questionBreast Cancer
I had breast reconstruction about a month ago and it looks like is loosing it's shape, is this normal?
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DaveWaz
Damaris,
Thank you for your question. I hope al lis well.Your question reminded me of some content we have on reconstruction experiences.
https://www.whatnext.com/experiences/procedure/breast-reconstruction-flap
https://www.whatnext.com/experiences/procedure/breast-reconstruction-implant
https://www.whatnext.com/experiences/procedure/reconstructive-surgery
It also reminded me to let WhatNexters know about our Beginner's Guide to Cancer, including a guide on how women chose between a lumpectomy and mastectomy.
https://www.whatnext.com/cc/how_we_chose_between_a_lumpectomy_and_mastectomy
Best of luck to all,
David
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Damaris posted an update
Now I'm on my fifth week of recovery from reconstruction. My first mastectomy was on my left breast and the day of the reconstruction the surgeon did a mastectomy on the right one. The plan was to reconstruct both at the same time, well after more than 12 hours in surgery it happened that the right side of my belly was too scared from hysterectomy( 2 of them) that it couldn't be used, so i ended up with a left form of a breast and nothing on the right side. The reason I wanted to do this kind of reconstruction was not to have to use implants and now that's what I have to do or use a prosthesis which is very uncomfortable, but I believe things happen for a reason, I just have to find it.
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Celebration (Finished treatment): My family and I went out to eat and we had a good time.
almost 10 years ago