I look for other flat chested women. A rant.

Mumito...So happy for you

Happy Dance for Mumito - did they tell you what the "lumps along scar tissue" were?  So frightening - happy you are over that one!  Hope the rest of scans are "boring" too.

Sunflowers MA is right, Mumito -- you are soooo boring!  

Let's all be that boring!  

I am bad after I read that no carcinoma was found I sort of blanked out and never read on.Next time I see my Dr I will ask for a copy pf the pathology and let you know sunflower.

LOL mumito - "hello, self"a voice in my head is saying - I could have spoken the IDENTICAL words you wrote....still laughing WITH YOU - and celebrating that you didn't have to read many words.  Boring is SO good.  Celebrate.

Maybe I should start a thread "If I knew then what I know now, I'd NEVER ( NEVAH!) had silicone implants." Had a BLM 6 years ago, let myself get talked into expanders, implants - honestly feel it was the choice most FINANCIALLY beneficial to the hospital where I had the surgery.  If I had seen the surgeon & PS I see now, I don't think I would have had any reconstruction.  When I told original surgeon I didn't want reconstruction, she said I really "should" talk to the PS she worked with before the surgery.  THAT PS downgraded ANY ANY ANY inconvenience, problem, side effects - MY BAD.  It was NEVER ( NEVAH!) suggested that I could have reconstruction later in the future if I wanted it then.  Grrrrrrrrr...ok, live & learn.  LOVE the PS I see now.

Had my small (poached eggs) removed in the PS office - she was great.  One had "migrated" ( her words) closer to my underarm, the other one was stationary, but harder.  The migrated one came out easily, the other one - yup, you guessed it, had ruptured.  Took a while to get it out, and remove what scar tissue could be removed and many injections of sterile saline to "wash out" the pocket/capsule. 

GOOD NEWS - I no longer feel like I'm living with a too tight rubber band across my chest, don't feel anything strange under the pec muscles when I move, breathe ( I'm fond of breathing)or do anything using my pec muscles.

6 years after implant - very happy Explantation.  My chest feels like MY CHEST again.

I feel so lucky that when I told BS I didn't want recon, she took it at face value and never mentioned it again. So glad your chest feels like your chest again.

Sunflowers, am so glad you are breathing again!!!! I have a friend who had prophylactic BMX with reconstruction many years ago, she is a singer, and unfortunately was not told that she would lose lung volume or ability to expand her chest and lungs for singing. She has a beautiful voice, but am sure it would be so much better for her if she could take those full lungs of air and belt it out! I agree that explant should be included in any implant information, as well as pain & suffering that goes along with these MULTIPLE procedures. The PS that I saw at my BS request prior to surgery also made it seem very simple. Am so glad I was smart enough to check out a LOT of information prior to seeing him and found he could not answer all my questions to my satisfaction, so my choice was EASY! NO MORE PROCEDURES and their associated risks!

pip, neither of mine ever saluted -  while my real boobs, the ones which tried to kill me, were having a race to my waist, the left one was winnning, the foobs were migrating under my arms, and getting ruptured ( the one which hadn't migrated) - it is  a FINANCIAL incentive to get women to have reconstruction, hospitals can CHARGE MORE MONEY, two surgeons ( on hospital staff) the surgeon and then the plastic surgeon who puts in the expander. AND the appointments to have fills, and the problems meaning MORE office visits.

No one will ever convince me the motive is anything but to MAKE MONEY during a terribly stressful time for a woman.  I'm only talking about breast cancer surgery  - any women who wants to supplement her own breasts with implants is another thing entirely.

Implants are made to look so "easy" - no trouble, "oh, capsular contraction is so rare." Right, and the sun rises in the West.  Grrrrrrrr......

Ariom - thanks. I just WISH women knew how uncomfortable ti can be to have an implant placed under the pec muscle  saline or silicone.  It is Never, to my knowledge, even mentioned.  Only the SE's of cc, and need to probably replace implant after 6 to 10 years - but NOTHING, NADA, ZIP about how it will feel.

BTW - to those thinking pf explantation, I know have SENSATION on my chest - which I did NOT have with the implant.  Sore right now, from the cutting and p-u-l-l-i-n-g out of the implant - but FEELING. Yeah. Not numb as it felt before...

MT1 - also, shhhh, it's nice to feel my chest and be able to FEEEEEEEEEEEL it again, without the numb blobs being wrinkled by my pec muscle....I CAN FEEL ME - I FEEL like me again - it's not like touching a foreign substance - it's ME

no more NUMB blobs/foobs...

MT - can't remember if this is the thread where I posted this, sugest you listen to Carly Simon's song, The Scar, I think was the title, it's on her Bedroom Tapes.

After I heard it, I was thinking of starting The Sisterhood of the Honorable Scar.  Never did, but....

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CC, I did worse. About 20 years ago, while living in the UK I went to a conference together with a lady from another office. I had never met her before travelling to the conference with her, spent the weekend at the conference, all hunky dory until THE LAST MINUTE – yes I waited ‘til the parting moment for the foot-in-mouth to strike. I was saying goodbye to her at the end of the weekend as we parted ways on a London station platform, having travelled all the way back to London on the train together. “Good luck with the baby” I said, “What baby?” She said……

(This emoticon is meant to be the zip fastner I should have had for my big mouth)