Sweating and foobs

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PuddinTame
PuddinTame Member Posts: 128
edited June 2014 in Working on Your Fitness

I'm three weeks from single mx. I know I need to start moving.  I'm a sporatic exerciser and want to be consistent so I plan to start slowly.  But if you don't sweat, it's not doing much.  I have a puffy foob as it's too soon to use the real foob (okay that's an oxymoron for you).  Even the fake foob (ffoob?) hurts too much to wear too long right now, but when it doesn't, I won't want to get it wet but need something to fill out the other half of the sports bra to keep it from hiking up. 

Anyway, do you exercise without a bra, use the foob, do something else or what?  When I can really start to exercise briskly, then what? 

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  • marejo
    marejo Member Posts: 1,356
    edited January 2009

    Hello.......

    I had both breasts removed and since the beginning of this journey (3.5 years ago) I've exercised.  I've been an avid exerciser for many, many years and breast cancer did not change that.  If anything, my exericise is what helped me get through it all.  Even during chemo I always exericised.  Not always as intense and maybe not as long but I always made myself do something and it always helped me.

    I didn't need a bra because I had nothing BUT before I had my 2nd breast removed I just wore my bra and prothesis and off I went.

    So, when you feel up to it ..get moving.....it's good for your body and mind.

    Mary Jo

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2009

    I wish I had continued to exercise and do my daily walking during chemo.  I lost alot of muscle tone during treatment. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2009

    Hi Kateful,

    I had a bilateral with implants but one had to be removed shortly after the exchange. I eventually had an IGAP, but went with the one implant and a prosthesis for 10 months, doing my regular karate/running/lifting the whole time.

    I wore an athletic bra with a foam prosthesis when I exercised. Since it was fabric-covered, I could toss it in the washing machine very easily. My biggest fear was it riding up or falling out during sparring, but it never moved that much. I've heard of a few pinning the foamy to the bra to help it stay put.

    For me, exercise was a life line (hitting stuff and screaming really loudly in karate class was good both physically and emotionally) and I trained all during treatment. I agree with Mary Jo that moving around as regularly as you can/feel up to is good forboth body and mind.

    All the best to you Laughing

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  • digger
    digger Member Posts: 590
    edited January 2009

    After the initial recovery period from a unilteral mx with TE placement, I've been exercising on the treadmill and the elliptical almost every day. When I used my treadmill at home, I actually didn't wear any kind of bra (there was no sweat from the foob because it didn't droop...the real side was really sweaty, but I was home so I didn't care!), but then when I finally went back to the gym a couple of weeks ago, I began using a sports bra with a foam insert.  I've got a number of Lululemon sports bras that come with convenient removable foamy things (I bought them before any of this happened...is that eerie or what?).  I like their workout bras that clasp in the front, since it's still pretty impossible, even eight weeks out from my mx, to pull one of those tight bras over my head.  I work up quite a sweat in the gym, then just bring everything home, including the foamy, and throw it into the wash.  I'm now pretty much filled to completion on the TE side, and I am definitely extremely self-conscious that the foob is much higher and bigger than the other side, but I wear a dark shirt and just try to assume that no one is staring at my chest aside from me.  And if they are, who cares?

    In terms of timing, I went on short walks after a week or so after surgery, then started using the elliptical about six weeks later.  I love the elliptical because it's aerobic but I don't feel like it's jiggling the expander too much.  I'm cleared for yoga and pilates and light weights now, and I've tried those, but to be honest, those types of activities really hurt right now, so I'm just listening to my body and doing whatever I can, without too much pain. 

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  • roseg
    roseg Member Posts: 3,133
    edited January 2009

    I have a 'shape" sports bra. They're kind of padded to start with. The existing boob kind of anchors it, then I stuck something in the other side. I'm not real big so that wasn't too hard. I had some little foam things.

    Immediately after surgery before struggling in and out of a sports bra was comfortable I had a kind of stretchy top I wore. I was just power walking then in a baggy t-shirt so it wasn't a big deal. Even to this day I am a tank-top or t-shirt gym person, not those strappy tops with the V-cross in the front. They just don't work for me.

    I've heard of Lululemon but I didn't know they had foamy things. I'm always on the lookout for tops with removable inserts as I can take it out of my real side and leave it in my reconstructed side and don't look too bad.

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