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TAPPY
TAPPY Member Posts: 283
edited June 2014 in Living Without Reconstruction After a Mastectomy

Ok, I am new to this, so please dont take offense and humor me.

What do you do with all of your  bras ?  I have a small fortune in very nice bras of every style color etc !  some are a different size due to padding etc...(all of mine are underwire except for my sports bras)

 Can you buy forms to fit in to them ?  or do they fall out or slip and look loopside ?

Is the underwire hard to handle after a double mas for tender skin ?

OR do you just send them off to bra heaven ?

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  • Erica3681
    Erica3681 Member Posts: 1,916
    edited September 2011

    Hi Tappy,

    Definitely keep all your bras for now. You may be able to wear some or all of them afterwards, either by having pockets sewn in or by using forms that are comfortable against your skin. Some women can still tolerate underwires (there are even some mastectomy bras made with underwires), others (like me) can't. But you can usually remove underwires from your bras and they'll still work.

    In my case, I found that the bras I'd had before really weren't comfortable afterward. But maybe others will come along who've been able to still use their pre-surgery bras. Since it sounds as if you do like bras, you may be glad to know that there are some pretty great/sexy mastectomy bras these days. Check out About the Girl, a UK site that ships to the US. Also, you might get some ideas about what's out there from looking at the Bras and Camisoles section of my non-profit website, BreastFree.org. 

    Barbara

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  • goldiebelle
    goldiebelle Member Posts: 45
    edited September 2011

    Hi Tappy



    Do check out Erica's website. It was there that I made my decision to not have reconstruction. You will finds lots of good information there.



    I threw all of my bras away. I wanted a new start which was a bad idea because mastectomy bras are expensive lol

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  • caaclark
    caaclark Member Posts: 936
    edited September 2011

    I think I threw all mine away too and for the same reason-I just wanted to start fresh after TYOC (the year of cancer).  Breastfree is a great site.  Check it out!  I had lots of underwire bras prior to breast cancer and have none now.

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  • sewingnut
    sewingnut Member Posts: 1,129
    edited September 2011

    I sewed bra pockets in all of my bras.  Mastectomy bras straps were hitting my port and are uncomfortable.  My pre MX bra straps are on the other side of the port and are comfortable. I had just replaced all of my bras a month before diagnosis so I wasn't going to get rid of them.  Glad I didn't.

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  • Denise2730
    Denise2730 Member Posts: 648
    edited September 2011

    If you don't want to keep them, donate them to your local abused women shelter.

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  • nwest125
    nwest125 Member Posts: 240
    edited September 2011

    I donated mine too .I  am  buying mastectomy bras a couple at a time. I now have 5 of one kind and 3 coobie bras, enough to get by for now  .

    Nancy

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  • Delilahbear
    Delilahbear Member Posts: 466
    edited September 2011

    I donated my bras to our local abused women shelter through the lingerie store, SOMA. I work there now and while it is not widely pubicized, except when we are actively collecting them, we still take the bras in and will keep them until corporate collects again for the shelter which is usually around the holidays.

    The other suggestions above are also good. You may be able to wear some of them. I got rid of mine and then had my implants replaced with larger ones and probably could have used several of them, but getting new is nice. 

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