Adhesive Prosthetics? Good?

I love the ones I wear.  They are the Amoena contact forms.  They stick onto you but not really with tape.  There is adhesive on the back.  They are comfortable for me but I am on the smaller side.  I had a single mast. so I use the contact form on my right side only.  Hopefully some others will weigh in on this.

I wear 2 Trulife "silk connect" forms, and love them.  I feel very secure just wearing them in a normal bra, and the weight distribution is better.  I'm so glad I tried them.

I have the omeba contact form also.  But I never stick it to myself,  I find that I get indents from each and every bump that is sticky.  I also have an allergy to adhesives, so I started getting a rash.  But it is also a larger breast size never thought about it but maybe that does make a difference.  I still use the breast form but I keep the soft cover over the adhesive part.

Lori

I tried them- and could not wear. They are not for the sensitve skin. The removal is painfil. The skin and scars were streched beyond imagination and hurt after. It is the same as wearing huge and heavy bandaid all day long.

I love the Contact form.  You cannot wear them without a bra but they stay in place better and I can wear them with a normal bra.  I found that the pockets in the mast bras never seem to fall in the right place.  I also bought one of those forms that stick on with tape.  I had heard they were going to be discontinued so I wanted to get one first.  I thought they would work better under evening clothes with a strapless bra.  I have worn it that way and it worked pretty well but I have only done it once. I wouldn't wear one of the tape-on forms every day because it is rough on your skin to take it off.  And, even with the tape-on type, you cannot go braless.

I have Amoena Contact Lites, but found them too uncomfortable to wear attached.  My problem with them, I think, is because I have a lot of excess tissue, so they don't stick close enough to my body and seem to drag or pull.  I powdered the sticky back and now wear them in pocketed leisure bras.

Recently I wrote to Amoena asking for a contact foam form.  If contact forms are made to be stuck to our chests, why do we need the weight of silicone?  They could have foam inside and the outside could be of the same material as regular silicone adhesive forms.  Seems a simple concept to me!

I was just dianosed last week so I personally I don't have a set yet.  Funny thing is...I tried on my mom's several months ago when she got some.  They stick on great, she got hers from Nordstoms and they said you could return them if they did not work.   That was the only place in Austin to get a set.  She tried to wear hers with out a bra and that did not work out so well.  They were all over the place.

I've been thinking of trying the Amoena contact form as well.I thought it would be good to have because if I can wear it with unpocketed bras, I might have more clothing options.  Plus it totally ticks me off that some of these pocketed bra are so expensive! I'm going to go to my fitter and check it out and then they would order it in my size.  They told me it would cost $120 more than my insurance would cover.  So it is an investment.  But I'll have to ask if it's returnable if it doesn't work for me as a contact form. I suppose I could always just use it like my regular form, but then I would have spent the extra $ for nothing.

I am concerned about the adhesive.....doesn't it hurt when you pull the prosthesis off; and is the whole procedure a bit high-maintenance? I just remove my (pocketed) bra at the end of the day and leave the prosthesis inside until I need to change bra.It makes me feel more 'normal'. However, I am also keen to use regular bras and items of clothing which at the moment I can't.

Footsox, I've had the Radiant Impressions custom made prosthesis, and now I have the Amoena Contact form.  The Radiant Impressions costs a lot more, and it's much more high maintenance, but it is made to stay attached with or without a bra.  I had one for the first few years after my mastectomy.  It was worth the extra time & trouble because at that point it was really important to me to have a perfect replica of my breast attached to my chest.  It was just what I needed at that time.  But by the time it wore out, I was ready to move on.  The Amoena is a lot less trouble to take care of, but you do need to wear a bra.  And if you are in a situation where you sweat, it will come unstuck.  Now that I'm almost 9 years into this experience, I have two prostheses - the Amoena Contact for times when I'm wearing a cami or something kind of revealing, and a regular prosthesis which I wear most days.  As someone said, it's a lot easier to just take off the bra at night and be done with it.  But I wouldn't want to be without my Amoena Contact, either. It's kind of like needing different kinds of bras for different clothing.

I am finally going to my fitter this week and I think I will at least try the Amoena contact form.  I see some of you mentioned that you wear it when you are wearing something more revealing, and it's my hope that I would be able to do the same.  I had a bilateral, have a C cup implant on the left, and am flat on the right due to implant failure. Right now I have to be so careful to only wear things that hit very high on my chest while wearing my regular form in a pocketed bra. It makes it particularly difficult to dress up. I'm curious, though...can anyone tell me HOW does the contact form enable you to wear something a little lower or more revealing? Is it because you can wear a somewhat more bare bra? If someone should happen to get a glimpse down your top, does the form look enough like real skin/breast so as not to be too noticeable?

Thanks,

Angela

That's what I was trying to ask in my last post, Yolanda.  I hope someone will answer. At any rate, I'm afraid the Amoena contact form is "out" for me, at least this year.  I had asked my fitter about the price of it in January and it was $380($120 more than my insurance will cover), but I was going to buy it anyway.  Until, that is, I went in to my fitter last week and found that the price had gone up $100!  And guess why, at least according to my fitter? Medicare approved some new code to pay that much for it($480), so Amoena raised their price to that level. I refused to buy it on principle.  I'm just so tired of these companies walking all over us. Maybe I coold find it for a bit less online, but then my insurance would pay nothing. 

Also, maybe this has been addressed, but I keep wondering why will insurance pay megabucks for just about any reconstructive surgery you want to have, but skimp on what they will pay for a form or bras($260 and $35,respectively, in my case).

 Angela