fat graft question

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Hi all! I'm looking for some advice on fat grafting.

I'm am extremely flat chested, which is why it doesn't make sense that i had breast cancer. Kind of a joke, really. I think people think I had a mastectomy, but I didn't. I was just flat to begin with (meaning I wear a training bra size if anything). I've always hated that I've been so flat, but oh well. I'm married and I did even breastfeed two kids.

Anyway, I had a lumpectomy, which although was only a small 5cm piece of tissue removed, is actually half my boob. No one can tell when I have clothes on, but it is annoying for me to look at when I'm naked. The cancerous lump is now replaced with a large hard lump of scar tissue, which my surgeon called a "scar contracture". It's bothersome and tight.

I'm to have a meeting with a plastic surgeon in 6 months to discuss a fat graft. This would make my boob look better and also help the scar contracture thing feel better. I'm very thin, but I think they can get enough fat off my butt to fill the 5cm space.

So here's my questions: If I go through the trauma of all this fat grafting, do you think the plastic surgeon can just go ahead and make both of my breasts a little bigger? Including the non-breast cancer affected one? I would love it if my clothes would fit better. All I'm asking for is a full A cup. And also, would my insurance cover both breasts since I only had cancer in one boob? And finally, will putting fat in my boobs make them saggy when I'm old? One benefit of being flat chested is my boobs don't sag. Guess that's a plus.

I sort of get the feeling from people like my mom that I'm just being vain. Or that I'm using breast cancer as an excuse to be vainful and have plastic surgery. She says things like, "why should you care you've never had them before". Possibly she's right, but I am young still. I would love to look in the mirror at my boob and never remember any of this crap again.

CaliKelly

Hi! First of all, it's not vain to want to erase signs of b.c.! And, hey, if you can get a bonus out of having a deadly disease, I dare anyone to criticize you!!! And yes, insurance has to cover anything that has to be done to the contralateral,( big word I learned😄) or"good" breast, to make the two breasts similar. But it sounds like you may not have enough body fat to work for you to get 2 breasts out of it. I had fat grafting to soften the look of the implant, cancer side. I'm slim also, my Dr. got enough fat from my waist, and sides to do that. Now the thing about fat grafting, it doesn't all stick around either. Why not ask your surgeon about very small implants? Even everything out, never sags, and will look fabulous and athletic, not Hollywood "boob job" I had to get an implant, cuz of mastectomy, but got very small one on the other side, to lift up my "good" boob. Got an almost perfect symmetry. Insurance paid for all! Also, my Dr. told me about a thing called renuva, a fat matrix that is donor fat, might work if you don't have enough of your own fat.😉💗

santabarbarian

I will donate! ;-)

CaliKelly

😄I had so many of my friends and family make that offer, unfortunately the renuva is cadaver fat!

CaliKelly

😄I had so many of my friends and family make that offer, unfortunately the renuva is cadaver fat!