Lumpectomy - what can i expect?

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  • veegray
    veegray Member Posts: 16
    edited June 2012

    I LOVE IT

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  • jpmomof3
    jpmomof3 Member Posts: 643
    edited June 2012

    Good luck you guys. Palmettomom and veegray i know you will do great. Hope you are getting some sleep now!

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  • veegray
    veegray Member Posts: 16
    edited June 2012

    Home, dr says we had clean margins but should know by Wednesday the results from the pathologist. But for now I will revel in the fact that he was 99% sure it's not caancerous.. it really hurts righ now..

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  • lanalang
    lanalang Member Posts: 60
    edited June 2012

    Glad to hear you got good news, veegray! I'm sorry it hurts :( Did he give you pain meds?

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  • Shayne
    Shayne Member Posts: 1,500
    edited June 2012

    YAY!  and yea, get some pain meds - i used them first day.......then felt better the next day.....  

    :) 

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  • mirabile
    mirabile Member Posts: 47
    edited June 2012

    Veegray - I'm sorry about your pain - it was same with me. I used pain meds first day and then felt OK next day. Ice pack helped.

    Three days out still a little tired with a really impressive bruise (!) but feel so much better than that first day.

    I get results Wednesday, too - in my case they suspect a phyllodes tumor (which are usually benign)...we'll see.

    Take it easy and congrats on getting through it!

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  • lanalang
    lanalang Member Posts: 60
    edited June 2012

    Good luck to both mirabile! I hope you get good results.

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  • veegray
    veegray Member Posts: 16
    edited June 2012

    Sent me home with vicodin. Not really helping the actual pain, just making me not think about it. Good luck mirabile, hope you get great results. And I appreciate the well wishes from all.

    I think the pain pills are making me irritable. I wanna snap on my dh. I think I have good reason, but then again could be the vico... :-P

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  • Shayne
    Shayne Member Posts: 1,500
    edited June 2012

    Vicoden does nothing for pain......why do they offer it?  

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  • veegray
    veegray Member Posts: 16
    edited June 2012

    I don't know why they offer it, I have taken 4 since I got home and nuthin. It's not even making me sleepy. I took some aleve a lil bit ago, hoping it helps.

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  • veegray
    veegray Member Posts: 16
    edited June 2012

    did any of you gals experience a horrible cough with pain in your lungs after lumpectomy?? It's a lil unnerving...

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  • Shayne
    Shayne Member Posts: 1,500
    edited June 2012

    yea on the cough, not constant......but its there.  My sis who is a nurse, told me to take deep breaths every hour to release the remaining anesthesia from my lungs....but every once in awhile I have this horrible horsey cough...

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  • veegray
    veegray Member Posts: 16
    edited June 2012

    thank you... You are soo helpful.. they didn't explain it, just told me that I needed to cough, so don't take anything for it.. 

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  • palmettomom3
    palmettomom3 Member Posts: 41
    edited June 2012

    Veegray...so glad that you are doing well! Deep breaths and coughing will definitely help!



    I also went in for my lumpectomy yesterday. Lymph nodes were clear! Yeah! Surgeon ended up doing more that lumpectomy and had to do a partial mastectomy. He said there were a few more tumors (4-5 mm) he found once he went in and had to remove those.



    I have not taken off my compression wrap yet but will tomorrow so I get to see what it looks like. I took pain meds last night but managed with tylenol and ice today.



    Hoping that 99% turns into 100%!



    Mirabelle...hoping for good news for you!

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  • jpmomof3
    jpmomof3 Member Posts: 643
    edited June 2012

    congrats on the negative lymph nodes, that is huge!  best wishes for a speedy recovery!

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  • jpmomof3
    jpmomof3 Member Posts: 643
    edited June 2012
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  • palmettomom3
    palmettomom3 Member Posts: 41
    edited June 2012

    Thanks jpmom3! I was so thrilled that nodes were negative that I cried in recovery!



    My husband told me today about the extra tumors...I just slept yesterday and so he let me rest. I take my compression of tomorrow so I guess I will see what I am left with!

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  • Shayne
    Shayne Member Posts: 1,500
    edited June 2012

    I hear your breasts can fill in some a year from now too......and i bet youll have some swelling - might be hard to really tell.  I still havent looked to see if i have symetry ......they look good looking down at them tho  :)

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  • Ellendou
    Ellendou Member Posts: 139
    edited June 2012

    Glad to hear your got good news about the nodes, that is always a relief.

    I had lumpectomy on both sides, and for some reason now one is bigger than the other, wish they would have made them the same, also when I look down it look like they slashed a slice from each side, sure hope they even out....it did take almost a month for the swelling to go down. 

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  • palmettomom3
    palmettomom3 Member Posts: 41
    edited June 2012

    Shayne...I didn't realize it could take up to a year! I can be patient. I hope! :)



    Ellendou...wow a lumpectomy on both sides! So sorry. I agree that they should have tried to make them match but I guess it depends on the location of each.



    My wonder now is if I will have chemo. I knew from the biopsy that if wasn't in the nodes then I wouldn't have chemo unless my oncotype score comes back high. No one ever mentioned if more tumors were found!

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  • mirabile
    mirabile Member Posts: 47
    edited June 2012

    palmettomom: So glad your surgery is over and no nodes! That's great. 

    veegray: hope you continue to recover well.

    I received my results today - benign! Yay! Some question of phyllodes vs. fibroadenoma so I've got to go to specialist, get a second pathology opinion in the city, etc. I have a feeling this will be a prolonged journey. But, for today I'm celebrating hearing the word "benign" and feeling so so lucky.

    Four days out I feel totally normal - my incision and brusing is still pretty dramatic looking, but not painful.They put me on antibiotics and steroid cream because I seem to be having infection/allergic reactions, but otherwise totally back to normal other than the "sloshing" sound - which makes me laugh every time I hear it.

    I can't tell what my cosmetic result will be. The incision looks awful now -- right across the top -- and the breast is definitely smaller/flatter than before - I had a relatively big chunk removed. But, as everyone says it will take a while to know exactly how everything will settle down.

    I can't thank everyone enough for letting me both lurk and post here - I learned so much that helped me prepare for my surgery and learn about potential outcomes. I hope my post about my surgery helps others as previous posts helped me.

    I guess I will stop posting on this particular thread as I have no further surgery scheduled and I do not have a cancer diagnosis. I want to be respectful to the forum. Please feel free to PM me if I can be of help to anyone contemplating lumpectomy or who has questions about multiple biopsies/fibroadenomas.

    In addition to my thanks, please accept my best wishes and prayers for good health, healing and recovery to each of you.

    Mirabile.

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  • Shayne
    Shayne Member Posts: 1,500
    edited June 2012

    hey - anytime  you feel like you have something to share on this thread - please feel free to!!!  Its here for everybody to get info!  

    thanks! 

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  • mirabile
    mirabile Member Posts: 47
    edited June 2012

    Thank you Shayne!

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  • MissAngie
    MissAngie Member Posts: 29
    edited June 2012

    Glad to hear your sugeries went well Mirabile, Veegray and Palmettomom! Yay for benign nodes Palmettomom!!  That is fantastic news.  I was pretty happy when my surgeon told me that my nodes were benign.

    I hope all of you have a good recovery.  It took some time for the bruising and swelling to go down for me.  When the steri strips fell off of my incisions, I wondered if my incisins were going to be wavy or crooked looking, but they have healed nicely and the one at the bottom of my breast is curved and the one for my nodes is straight.

    Shayne - that is interesting that breast can fill in a year after surgery.  When I flex my right arm, the muscles in my breast tighten and I have an indent where my breast scar is.  That's where they took the tumour from.  It looks odd, so I am hoping you are right and that it will fill in.

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  • Shayne
    Shayne Member Posts: 1,500
    edited June 2012

    It was on another thread - not sure if it was this one or a different one - that someone who had lx one year ago posted.  She said she had a dent after surgery, that had filled in.  Thought it was v interesting as well, but knowing that breast tissue is fatty tissue, I can see how that is possible.....

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  • Ellendou
    Ellendou Member Posts: 139
    edited June 2012

    Shayne - I sure hope so, because mine are sure an odd shape now....but then it has only been about a month since the surgery.

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  • Shayne
    Shayne Member Posts: 1,500
    edited June 2012

    From what my sister told me who had bc 5 years ago - even with LX, your insurance must pay for reconstruction if they are not symetrical.  I would not go for that, but others might consider it......

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  • Ellendou
    Ellendou Member Posts: 139
    edited June 2012

    Don't think I would go -- is a minor thing I could live with.

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  • veegray
    veegray Member Posts: 16
    edited June 2012

    Results in this morning... benign...  WOOHOO!!!

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  • lanalang
    lanalang Member Posts: 60
    edited June 2012

    glad to hear it!! :)

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