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Janie-bug
Janie-bug Member Posts: 181
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

Ok I am wondering......how about tanning beds I had a NS/SS MX in Dec and was wondering can I lay in a tanning bed. Does it hurt anything or dont

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  • Janie-bug
    Janie-bug Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2012

    help

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  • bevin
    bevin Member Posts: 1,902
    edited March 2012

    I'd certainly cover the breast area and your face ( to many wrinkles).  All in all, they say people should not use tanning beds. But if you're going to, I'd definately not tan my face or breasts.

    Its awful being pale... maybe some nice foam self tanner? Neutrogena makes a nice one.

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited March 2012

    They're banning tanning beds in Australia - too many people are getting skin cancer/melanoma from them.

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited March 2012

    I wouldn't go near one. Get some nice bronzer instead.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited March 2012

    The Neutrogena self-tanner is a nice lotion.  I use it during the summer on my legs. 

    I don't think tanning will hurt your mastectomy side.  It does cause cancer ... I just had basal cell and a small melanoma skin cancer removed from my chest.

    I grew up in the sun in San Diego and I LOVED tanning.  I wish I knew to stay out of the sun when I was younger, as I'm paying the price now for all those years of tanning.

    Bottom line is .. aside from the risk of skin cancer, I think you'll be okay to tan.

    Bren

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  • jwilco
    jwilco Member Posts: 486
    edited March 2012

    My mother passed away from melanoma.  Terrible terrible....

    Try a self tanner.  They are way better than they used to be. 

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  • Janie-bug
    Janie-bug Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2012

    OK ladies I will stay far, far away form the Tanning bed.....I think I will try the spray tan this year.. Good advice as always thats why I come here whenever I have a questions. Love you guys 

    Thanks 

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  • PinkSurvivor
    PinkSurvivor Member Posts: 63
    edited March 2012

    I went to tanning beds almost weekly for over 10 years, I loved being tan and hate being pasty white, since being diagnosed with BC in 2010, I will NOT go near a tanning bed.  I do NOT want cancer of any kind in my body ever again.  I would rather be pasty white and alive.  :)  That's just me though.

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