June 2012 Mastectomy

Girls. I just had a pbmx with te yesterday. I'm in alot of pain with the swelling,tightness and soreness. Pain meds r taking edge off but what can I expect in terms of getting some relief? I could barely move right now...uugghh

Hi lorrio. Released today. Taking percocid Couldn't take the morphine, it made me nauseus. What did u take upon release?

Hi lorrio. Yes Valium. Not thrilled with it. Percocid for pain works better. Taking 1 perc every 4 hours.

May go up to 2 before bed. Wows... Didn't expect this much discomfort!!!!!

I know. In the beginning it even hurt to breathe. Felt like weights pressing on my chest. I stayed in the hospital 2 nights because I couldn't hold down food. By the 3rd day I felt better. It will get better. I promise.

Shabby,

Take 2 percocets every 4 hours. I did this for the first 24 hours. Make sure your husband wakes you up to take your meds. Day three I was able to space the perks with Aleve. Taking percocets right before bed will make you more comfortable.



Take care,

Elise

And I know people say it's hard to get out of bed, but I had a more difficult time climbing back into bed. It was hard to shift back into a semi-comfortable position. I finally moved to the couch and that helped.

Taismommy-

Well that's good news!

Taismommy - Wishing you a painless experience!

I just saw the breast cancer specialist this afternoon and don't have to go back until 6 months.  Yeaaa!

@rosetx, I updated you on the list. Amazing, it's been more than a month and I can still edit that thing. Keep your updates coming, and everyone give a big woohoo!! for rosetx--no chemo, no rads, no hormone tx, no nothing!

Hi Gals! not sure if I've posted in this forum yet.. so HELLLo from British Columbia (BC not BC) lol

am trying to find a spot where there is someone else going through the 'OMG how tight can it get' from the MX? I had BMX, maybe some of you have read my posts in other forums, i'm no one more special than you, but I'm the one that's been going through H.E.L.L. from the 3 dr's that made mistakes, and 9wks later, still on IV antibiotics, they took my cancer & boobs, but gave me 3bugs.. sent me on my way, fought to get help, but too late for my chest.. miracles though, my wounds(which were enormous-big breasted) were eaten up from the Staph etc.. so anyways, now I"m months ahead of healing, 1 side is closed & the other is amost closed.. hooray~ 

but wowee.. the tightness is still so major! it's tight all the time (and underarm areas too, although no desection (or whatever it's called) of lymph nodes, I couldn't do proper excercises to stretch too far due to the wounds (I had already ripped them a bit trying to stretch).. but did keep trying & still do stretch.. but I get like these contractions... like when in labor. so the pain is finally reduced, after 2months of meds, each time they take me off, a few days later the infection turns up, then I'm back to pain etc.. is there something that can be done to help stop the tightness besides stretching?

I'm going to look into muscle relaxers & diazapam, like mentioned, I can only take xtra-strength Tylonol or morphine, allergic to all others. but, hmmm, reading here has giveing me a a few thoughts.

the struggle to get med prof's to give me straight answers, they seem to also disagree with each other on type of BC ... but, i'm at the stage now of getting referred for another opinion.. man they're all nuts here in my town.

hope your' all doing better than you were..

have a great Sunday 

I also started going to a physical therapist last week to regain some strength and have them work out the cording that I seem have from the lymph node removal. I've only gone for one session but it definitely helped. I will be going two days each week.

Mariannm, do you mean he is doing 7 fills?  Is he just putting a few cc's at a time on each side?

he's doing between 70 -90 cc's each time....depending on what I can take.   he's going for a replacement with a size of 500, which I think I'm almost at, so just need a bit more to work with.  and yes, the same amount on each side

Hello Ladies!

I have been out for a while. I read all the posts and wanted to say how proud I am of each of you. Your strength and encouragement is a blessing!!!

I had my exchange done. I am at home now in more pain than when I had the BMX. The PS said I had a lot of scar tissue from prior radiation and surgeries (from my Hodgkin's). Arrrrgh! My left side is super sore. The drains are back in and they come out in my arm pits (why didn't they use the old drain site??) I am super swollen so I can't really tell if they are going to look good or not. My left side looks strange and my right side still looks square. I feel like I am over it. I was so excited to have this behind me but I am not because I am so sore! Oh, I have a huge new incision on my left breast. I guess it was a really difficult revision. Oh well. The TE's looked better!

Really feeling blah!

Big hug to you all!!

Jami

Jaml-

You already have hour exchange? Wow ghats quick. I'm waiting till winter break to do mines. One fill left. school starts Monday for me hope you feel better!!