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Do you mind educating us a bit about what the differences might be? Also, could you describe the physical side effects, pain and / or discomfort you felt after the operation (and how long did it continue).

A Girl's Prosthetic Breast

A. Reconstruction is rather distinct from breast augmentation. The simplest reconstruction procedure is an implant but unless you're having immediate reconstruction, i.e. during the same surgery as your mastectomy, you need to have an expander set into your chest to stretch Nudism, Seclusion and Using Cell Phones at Naturist Resorts .

Immediate reconstruction is not generally possible if you've cancer because it can interfere with follow up treatment. Because a mastectomy is so extreme and leaves you with absolutely no fat etc afterward, don't have any room to fit an implant.

An expander elongates skin over a time frame, 6 months I believe. After that, either the expander can be used and full of saline, or it is removed and replaced with a new implant. If you've only lost 1 breast, then the procedure will need to be repeated on another side (minus the expander) so as to balance you up! Real boobs sag, fictitious ones are more pert!

The alternatives are to have a brand new breast assembled from your own flesh. Surgeons use either your own tummy or back muscles & fat to create a breast. This can be an extremely long process which takes about 12 months to complete. You're left with scarring on the grafted region and numbness.

A friend of mine had difficulties with her &back muscle boobs&, as the muscles took quite a long time to &quit& being back muscles! They've to &learn& how to be mainly dormant breast muscle which takes time. It is possible to get contractures and irregularity as fundamentally It is called a holiday &au have been in the wrong place - not in the back/stomach!

Reconstructed breasts are mostly numb. Certainly there isn't the same level of sense and very frequently, do not have a n****e. Sometimes n****e sparing surgery can be done, but not normally if you've got cancer. Nipples are then created; tattooed or prosthetic ones can be &stuck on&.

The physical side effect which I felt was mostly tightness which limits your arm and shoulder movements. From the second day post-surgery, you're given exercises to do daily, which are mostly a series of stretching exercises.

The scar place felt quite tight and unmalleable. I massaged it each day with Bio Oil to try & loosen the area. Pain just actually happened if I transferred my arm and it was a burning, aching pain and felt like a &Chinese burn.& It lasted for about 2 weeks, but I still get the occasional ache these days at the same time.

been to see me and explained that he was feeling positive that we would have a good consequence. I asked him if he would be able to tell simply by looking whether there was any lymph involvement and he clarified that it was easier to see if there WAS participation than not. He went on to say that he believed it would be unlikely in my instance.

Q. Can you describe the feelings and thoughts that were racing through your mind during those last few minutes, right before the procedure, as you were getting prepared to be wheeled in?

I felt uplifted by his comments and actually quite calm. I was not feeling panicky or frightened actually, maybe a bit apprehensive. I just needed to get Teenage Naturist Problems And Schooling Goddess About Sexting, Nudity And Naturism done. Within 5 minutes of being taken into the Anesthetic room, you happen to be asleep anyhow, so it's quite quick.

Q. When you saw your body in the mirror for the very first time after the operation - What happened / how did you feel / what did you think?

Rebecca's Post Op Mastectomy Image

A. I &bit Nudists on TV are the Butts of the Joke & on this one and had a look pretty much as soon as I could escape bed. The only time I cried, was when I came round in the anesthetic in the recovery room and immediately sensed the right side of my torso.

I saw myself with the dressing on about 2 hours afterwards. It looked strange, but I was not appalled. I didn't see the actual scar, until I got home 2 days later and removed the dressing.

My partner saw it first, really before I looked. We were both pretty shocked, but accepting of the fact that the process had very probably saved my life. We both believed that, in the grand scheme of things, life is more significant that aesthetics.

I feel totally comfortable with it now and once I looked at &before& photographs several weeks ago, my first idea was that it wasn't me. I seem to have adjusted extremely well.

Q. As he was removing the bandages with you and the shown the scar - Did his expression change?




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