Mammogram after a breast reduction

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ScaredInSnoqualmie
ScaredInSnoqualmie Member Posts: 32
edited June 2014 in LCIS (Lobular Carcinoma In Situ)
Mammogram after a breast reduction
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  • ScaredInSnoqualmie
    ScaredInSnoqualmie Member Posts: 32
    edited September 2011

    I have decided to go ahead with my breast reduction and stay on close watch for the next 6 months.  Is there anybody here who has done the same?  Was that mammogram excruciatingly painful or was it manageable?  Thanks, ladies:)

    Tatiana

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  • atlanta01
    atlanta01 Member Posts: 49
    edited September 2011

    I had a breast reduction in 2008 and my first mammogram after the surgery a year later.  It was less painful after the breast reduction than my previous mammograms had been.  My mammogram this year was a bit more painful than the previous one but the discomfort was gone an hour later.

    If you find your mammograms have been painful, take a Tylenol ES an hour before the mammogram.

    A little humour - I had my breast reduction in April 2008 and had an overnight stay in the hospital. When I got home the next morning, I received a call from the Breast Health Centre reminding me I was scheduled for a mammogram in two weeks!  I told them I would reschedule, checked with my surgeon and didn't have the next mammogram until a year later.  My surgeon did tell me that the tissue removed during the reduction had been sent to the pathology lab and it came back clear.

    The breast reduction was the best thing I have ever done - I only wish I had done it years before.  I truly believe that my mammograms are more reliable now too.  I had calcifications that showed up on my mammogram this year and after a diagnostic mammogram and a stereotactic core biopsy, the results showed that I have fat necrosis, probably a result of the reduction.  You might want to ask your surgeon about the possibility that there may be some necrosis that mimics calcifications.

    I'm now going to have diagnostic mammograms on an annual basis just to make suren there are no significant changes.

    Wishing you an easy surgery.  If you have any questions about the breast reduction surgery, please don't hesitate to ask me!

    Regards

    Carolyn 

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  • ScaredInSnoqualmie
    ScaredInSnoqualmie Member Posts: 32
    edited September 2011

    Thanks, Carolyn, this helps.  I had one done when I was very young, in my early twenties, but then I managed to breast feed my daughters and somehow, even though I didn't gain any significant weight over the years, the breasts got big - not as big as they used to be, but still big enough to cause back pain and other large-boob-related nonsense:)  Naturally, while I was young, I didn't do any mammogramsl soon after the surgery or any time later, so it is nice to hear from someone who had:)

    Tatiana

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