Healthy breast gets a lift? Share experience of future mammo.

strawberrybubblegum

Hi Everyone,

I was dx with DCIS in July last year, and had UMX in December. I have my TE for 3 months now and I'm at the point of deciding what my next step is. I always thought I wanted to lift the other side (healthy breast) for better symmetry, but 2 weeks ago during my regular fill, the doctor said he can just exchange the UMX side if that's what I want. He felt he can achieve pretty good symmetry with just doing one side. (I'm 39 and size .

I'm torn. My husband said to leave the healthy breast alone. But deep in my mind, I know I'm the one who's going to look at my breasts every day and wonder if I have made the right decision.

My question is really around future mammo on the healthy side with implant. I googled and most articles said implant does make mammo more challenging and can miss suspicious spots. Can anyone share experience going through mammo with implant in? Any suggestion? Thanks a bunch!

Meow13

I had the lift, looked good. Mammogram still feels the same no problems.

AliceKo

I am in the same situation. And I can't decide. My husband says to leave it alone. I am thinking about the lift, but not the implant. Not another piece of foreign material in my body. It's been 3.5 months post op, I feel the implant all the time. At least I can feel my children hug me on one side.

TrmTab

I am a UMX and now 6+ months post exchange am starting to think of doing something to make me more even...perhaps a smaller implant, perhaps a lift, but really don't want another implant, I find mine hard and don't need to make my soft breast that has feeling be hard.

Meow13

I didn't have any implants the lift seemed like very minor surgery considering. I had it done same time as the DIEP. Match is excellent. No mamogram problems. I have extremely dense tissue.