Do you mind educating us a bit about what the differences might be? Additionally, could you describe the physical side effects, pain and / or suffering you felt after the operation (and how long did it continue).
A Girl's Prosthetic Breast
A. Reconstruction is rather different 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 place into your chest to stretch the skin.
Immediate reconstruction isn't usually possible if you've cancer because it can interfere with follow up treatment. Because a mastectomy is so radical and makes you with zero fat etc after, you have no room to fit an implant.
An expander stretches the skin over a period of time, 6 months I believe. After that, either the expander can be used and filled with saline, or it's removed and replaced with a brand new implant. If you've only lost 1 breast, then the process 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 other options are to have a new breast constructed from your own flesh. Surgeons use either your own belly or back muscles & fat to create a breast. This is an extremely lengthy procedure which takes about 12 months to finish. You're left with scarring on the grafted area and numbness.
A friend of mine had difficulties with her "back muscle boobs", as the muscles took quite a while to "quit" being back muscles! They have to "learn" how to be mainly dormant breast muscle which takes time. It's possible to get contractures and irregularity as fundamentally they have been in the wrong area - not in the back/stomach!
Reconstructed breasts are mainly numb. Surely there isn't the same level of sense and very frequently, do not have a nipple. Occasionally nipple sparing operation can be done, but not normally if you have cancer. Nipples are subsequently created; tattooed or prosthetic ones can be "stuck on".
The physical side effect that I felt was mainly tightness which limits your arm and shoulder moves. From your second day post-operation, you're given exercises to do daily, which are mainly a series of stretching exercises.
The scar region felt very tight and unmalleable. I massaged it each day with Bio Oil to attempt & loosen the region. Pain just really occurred if I transferred my arm and it was a burning, aching pain and felt like a "Chinese burn." It continued for about 2 weeks, but I still get the occasional ache these days at the same time.
been to see me and clarified he was feeling positive that we would have a good outcome. I asked him if he'd have the ability to tell just by looking whether there was any lymph participation and he clarified that it was easier to see if there WAS involvement than not. He went on to say that he thought it'd be unlikely in my instance.
Q. Can you describe the feelings and thoughts that were racing through your mind during those last few seconds, right before the surgery, as you were getting prepared to be wheeled in?
I felt uplifted by his remarks and actually quite calm. I wasn't feeling panicky or scared actually, maybe a bit apprehensive. General Information About Pure Nudism As Practiced By "True Nudists" wanted to get it done. Within 5 mins of being taken into the Anesthetic room, you might be asleep anyway, so it is fairly fast.
Q. When you saw your body in the mirror for the first time after the operation - What happened / how did you feel / what did you believe?
Rebecca's Post Op Mastectomy Image
A. I "bit the bullet" on this one and had a look pretty much as soon as I could get out of bed. The only time I cried, was when I came round from the anesthetic in the recovery room and instantly felt the right side of my chest.
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I saw myself with the dressing on about My Nude Cruise Encounter on the Big Nude Boat . It looked odd, but I was not appalled. I used ton't see the actual scar, until I got home 2 days after and removed the dressing.
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A Girl's Prosthetic Breast
A. Reconstruction is rather different 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 place into your chest to stretch the skin.
Immediate reconstruction isn't usually possible if you've cancer because it can interfere with follow up treatment. Because a mastectomy is so radical and makes you with zero fat etc after, you have no room to fit an implant.
An expander stretches the skin over a period of time, 6 months I believe. After that, either the expander can be used and filled with saline, or it's removed and replaced with a brand new implant. If you've only lost 1 breast, then the process 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 other options are to have a new breast constructed from your own flesh. Surgeons use either your own belly or back muscles & fat to create a breast. This is an extremely lengthy procedure which takes about 12 months to finish. You're left with scarring on the grafted area and numbness.
A friend of mine had difficulties with her "back muscle boobs", as the muscles took quite a while to "quit" being back muscles! They have to "learn" how to be mainly dormant breast muscle which takes time. It's possible to get contractures and irregularity as fundamentally they have been in the wrong area - not in the back/stomach!
Reconstructed breasts are mainly numb. Surely there isn't the same level of sense and very frequently, do not have a nipple. Occasionally nipple sparing operation can be done, but not normally if you have cancer. Nipples are subsequently created; tattooed or prosthetic ones can be "stuck on".
The physical side effect that I felt was mainly tightness which limits your arm and shoulder moves. From your second day post-operation, you're given exercises to do daily, which are mainly a series of stretching exercises.
The scar region felt very tight and unmalleable. I massaged it each day with Bio Oil to attempt & loosen the region. Pain just really occurred if I transferred my arm and it was a burning, aching pain and felt like a "Chinese burn." It continued for about 2 weeks, but I still get the occasional ache these days at the same time.
been to see me and clarified he was feeling positive that we would have a good outcome. I asked him if he'd have the ability to tell just by looking whether there was any lymph participation and he clarified that it was easier to see if there WAS involvement than not. He went on to say that he thought it'd be unlikely in my instance.
Q. Can you describe the feelings and thoughts that were racing through your mind during those last few seconds, right before the surgery, as you were getting prepared to be wheeled in?
I felt uplifted by his remarks and actually quite calm. I wasn't feeling panicky or scared actually, maybe a bit apprehensive. General Information About Pure Nudism As Practiced By "True Nudists" wanted to get it done. Within 5 mins of being taken into the Anesthetic room, you might be asleep anyway, so it is fairly fast.
Q. When you saw your body in the mirror for the first time after the operation - What happened / how did you feel / what did you believe?
Rebecca's Post Op Mastectomy Image
A. I "bit the bullet" on this one and had a look pretty much as soon as I could get out of bed. The only time I cried, was when I came round from the anesthetic in the recovery room and instantly felt the right side of my chest.
I saw myself with the dressing on about My Nude Cruise Encounter on the Big Nude Boat . It looked odd, but I was not appalled. I used ton't see the actual scar, until I got home 2 days after and removed the dressing.
My partn