August 2016 Surgeries

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  • MirandaPriestly
    MirandaPriestly Member Posts: 28
    edited August 2016

    Thanks everyone. If nothing else I'm glad to know I'm not the only one (which it feels that way considering I'm the first in my family or friends to have breast cancer).


    I love your Vizla! I have a 9 year old lab/pointer mix and hope to add to our family with another puppy as soon as I'm on the mend. Trying to convince my husband I need a therapy dog since we were getting ready to expand our family with a baby when I was diagnosed

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  • TNpotato
    TNpotato Member Posts: 71
    edited August 2016

    Hey everyone! Add me to the list! Lumpectomy with SNB on Aug 18th coming up, scared outta my mind!

    Hugs and healing thoughts to all who have just completed surgery and for all to come, speedy recoveries as well! :)

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  • s1d1c1u1
    s1d1c1u1 Member Posts: 63
    edited August 2016

    My surgery went well. The radioactive seed was the only painful part for me...well that and the very young, attractive assistant anesthesiologist seeing me without my wig ( so glad I ignored the pre surgery rules and drew my eyebrows on - no one seemed to have a problem with that bit of vanity)! Took about 2 hours and 1 more for recovery. I took a pain pill last night, but feel great this morning - no pain whatsoever and have full range of motion. Dr. took 3 nodes out and none were cancerous and there were no traces of original tumor! So all the hell I went thorough with chemo paid off :-) So glad this part of my treatment is over. My BS is on vaca next week, so I won't find out pathology report for 2 weeks, but I'm fairly posisitve it will be good news.

    To all you ladies who had surgery yesterday I wish you a speedy recovery and good news. And to all of you still waiting, you're in my thoughts. You got this!!!

    Sabrina

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  • Bagsharon
    Bagsharon Member Posts: 200
    edited August 2016

    Lookforward, thinking about you today. You got this.

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  • Milwmama
    Milwmama Member Posts: 115
    edited August 2016

    All done here as well. Went good. Things looked good, pathology report in a week. Pain is intermittent. Cuts go all,the way to my pits. Oophrectomy wnt very well, but a little painful. Home from the hospital and resting at home. All wrapped up and on pain pills. Just waiting for the block to wear off and the real pain to start. Have decent motion in my arms, not total or over my head, but decent.

    Hope everyone before me is well, and good luck to those coming up.

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  • AmeliaPond
    AmeliaPond Member Posts: 8
    edited August 2016

    This is my first post here. I was dxd with stage II breast cancer a couple of weeks ago. I am having a lumpectomy and sentinel lymph nodes removed on the 17th. I'm pretty nervous about it all. The only surgery I've had before this was a c-section and that was 22 years ago. I can't seem to keep my mind on one topic for more than about 8 seconds and the stress is making me grind my teeth something awful.

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  • LoveMyVizsla
    LoveMyVizsla Member Posts: 813
    edited August 2016

    Dennyse and Thereisnodespair. How are you doing?

    Glad to hear you're done and doing okay, Sabrina.

    Milwmama, take it easy. Hopefully you will be surprised by the lack of pain.

    Bagsharon, how are you doing now that you're a few days out?

    Amelia, this surgery should be easy compared to a c-section! Hang in there and take slow deep breaths when you are feeling overwhelmed.

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  • Bagsharon
    Bagsharon Member Posts: 200
    edited August 2016

    I had a laparotomy to remove a benign tumor (a dermoid cyst or teratoma if you like to google medical oddities) from my ovary many years ago. I was in the hospital for two days on a morphine drip. This ain't nothing compared to that. My boob looks like it was in a mixed martial arts cage match and sometimes I reach too far and feel a burning in my lymph node area but have no real pain. I get tired easily but am fortunate that I can work from home and nap when I need to.

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  • Dennyse
    Dennyse Member Posts: 27
    edited August 2016

    Hi, Looking for some pain and fall information. I am 1 d post op after bilateral mastectomy yesterday. Not much pain yesterday, but not so good today. I fell today (becuz of dizziness from Gabapentin, and Narco. Now I am scared that I messed up the surgery. Has anyone had a similar experience? Not a fun day


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  • LoveMyVizsla
    LoveMyVizsla Member Posts: 813
    edited August 2016

    Oh no, Dennyse! I hope you're okay. Maybe you should call the on call doc and talk to them. Hugs to you.

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  • beebs2704
    beebs2704 Member Posts: 128
    edited August 2016

    Fiddler, we will all be in your pocket on Monday! There is a topic with other Ottawa ladies in it..4 of us right now at varying degrees of treatment: me post op but waiting on next steps, one just finished rads, one in rads, one in chemo. Join us! Hopefully this link works...https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/55/topics...

    We are thinking about meeting up.


    Beth

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  • Fiddler
    Fiddler Member Posts: 128
    edited August 2016

    thank you, beebs, I will check that out right away. I had my pre admission appt today and feel quite relieved that now you can have clear liquids including ginger ale and apple juice up to 90 minutes before arriving at the hospital....my greatest fear being the massive migraine that I ALWAYS get whenever I have to fast. Just so glad I will finally have the surgery after waiting around all summer. Then on to waiting for the pathology report.

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  • beebs2704
    beebs2704 Member Posts: 128
    edited August 2016

    Fiddler, I was also worried about fasting that long as I'm hypoglycaemic in the morning and if I don't eat within a couple hours of waking I feel terribly ill and nauseous. I drank apple juice and coconut water beforehand ( minus the coconut chunks). I also had a performance sports tablet before which gave me electrolytes. (Clear performance drinks were okay the nurse said but I couldn't find any clear ones). I bought a tube of Eload Ediscs at Bushtakkah (cycle or running stores might sell them too). And I was totally fine from 10 pm, until 10:50 am when they wheeled me in to the OR. I was lightheaded but mostly just hungry:)

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited August 2016

    "Hope you find this information helpful. In 2014 and 2015, there were several threads that looked at 1. specific drugs i.e. ketorolac, opiods, propofol, and other NSAIDS, and 2. surgical anesthesia interventions i.e. paravertebral blocks that may affect breast cancer recurrence either local or metastatic. All the information is Evidence Based Research with links. The intent of this post is to provide you with a link to information that you can study and in turn take to your surgeon and anesthesiologist for discussion pre-op, if you feel it has value in your breast cancer care.

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/73/topics/843381?page=1#post_4691613

    A great starting point is this presentation by Dr. Vikas Sukhatme who is academic dean at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard. Published on Jan 21, 2016. Presented by Dr. Vikas P. Sukhatme on December 8, 2015 at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

    "A Simple, One-Time, Inexpensive and Non-Toxic Intervention to Improve Cancer Survival"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zVrYEW8vE&feature=youtu.be

    This is a post and run. I'm 7years out and on with life and other things, I'm not monitoring or mentoring this thread. Particular questions re: the research, please, post on each individual thread . Good luck and blessings -sassy"

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  • thereisnodespair
    thereisnodespair Member Posts: 121
    edited August 2016

    B"H

    Hi everyone! now that i am after the op, i realise how great it is that i can connect here with women going through the very same thing as me.... the surgery went well, feeling good, unbelievably almost no pain, can lift my arm!, and am just waiting now for the results.......

    I had so many fears about the surgery, the awkward ,moments before and after - but thank G-d it really really was okay and that is the main message i would like to share with everyone here - it really isn't so hard, or embarressing or painful as we (understandably i think) imagine before....

    So how is everyone feeling?

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  • Charlene1
    Charlene1 Member Posts: 72
    edited August 2016

    Hi everyone

    scheduled for lumpectomy and SNB on Aug 25th

    hope all goes well, but always a fear that it will turn out to be more than what was diagnosed originally

    trying to stay positive but it is difficult most days. Had a full body bone scan and CT scan to pelvis last week results came back clear.

    I feel great physically but mentally I am a wreck



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  • LoveMyVizsla
    LoveMyVizsla Member Posts: 813
    edited August 2016

    Thereisnodespair, I felt the same way after my surgery...it wasn't that bad. I had no breast pain, just from the SNB when I would reach for something.

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  • jay8
    jay8 Member Posts: 3
    edited August 2016

    I'm having a lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy on 8/10. Starting to get nervous.

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  • LoveMyVizsla
    LoveMyVizsla Member Posts: 813
    edited August 2016

    Fiddler and Blueorange, we'll be thinking of you tomorrow. Keep us posted on your recoveries.

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  • Bagsharon
    Bagsharon Member Posts: 200
    edited August 2016

    Even though I skimmed through the links I copied from last month's surgeries, I didn't read them thoroughly because most of the information is for inpatient and/or more extensive surgery than LX. For those of you yet to have your outpatient surgery, there are two side effects that I didn't fully anticipate: constipation from the anesthesia and/or narcotics and a yeast infection from the antibiotics. Just giving you a heads up to be prepared for either.


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  • Dennyse
    Dennyse Member Posts: 27
    edited August 2016

    Hi, this is post op day 4 for me following bilateral mastectomy. PS was able to go direct to implant. So we will see how that progresses. Worst part on Day 1 was that I fell from dizziness from my pain meds. Landed on my hip and knocked my back out. It was worse than the great pain for 24 hours, but am so much better now. I am cutting back on pain meds of course. One thing is that I bought a shower shirt prior to surgery. My PS does not trust it and does not want me to use it. Anybody else with this experience. Let me know.

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  • Bagsharon
    Bagsharon Member Posts: 200
    edited August 2016

    Dennyse, I'm so glad to see you posting again after your fall. You've been in my thoughts. I would listen to your surgeon, if you're already falling, a slippery shower doesn't sound like a good place for you to be.

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  • scgirl78
    scgirl78 Member Posts: 5
    edited August 2016

    I will be having a lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy on August 25. Has anyone else been having problems with night sweats? They started several months ago before diagnosis.

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited August 2016

    Hi scgirl78, and welcome to our community! How old are you ? Are you pre or post menopausal?


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  • LoveMyVizsla
    LoveMyVizsla Member Posts: 813
    edited August 2016

    I had occasional night sweats through my 40's. Maybe once a quarter or so. When I started AC chemo, I had hot flashes in the evenings and some night sweats too. The MO said now that I'm done with chemo, I will probably be done with menopause. Well, in the last several days I've been having mini hot flashes.

    Bagsharon, I had constipation after surgery too. I think it was compounded by the scopolamine patch I requested to reduce nausea from the anesthesia.

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  • s1d1c1u1
    s1d1c1u1 Member Posts: 63
    edited August 2016

    I've had hot flashes and night sweats since I first started chemo. It's been 5 weeks since chemo and I still get them, just not as frequently.

    I was lucky in the constipation department. I've had no issues. I took a stool softener the day of my surgery and ate raisin bran and all was well. I did have the anti nausea patch...and I only took the narco once a day at night, guess I'm just one of the lucky ones. I suffered terribly during first round of chemo due to the meds I was one. Never ever do I want to deal with that again!

    I am starting to have some swelling in my arm pit from the SNB, but otherwise I still feel good, though really tired today. I've taken 4 naps today! How much swelling is normal? I can't remember anything my surgeon said.

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  • LoveMyVizsla
    LoveMyVizsla Member Posts: 813
    edited August 2016

    I don't remember any swelling.

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  • beebs2704
    beebs2704 Member Posts: 128
    edited August 2016

    s1d1c1u1: I don't know how much swelling is "normal" but I was fairly swollen in my armpit around my incision for awhile. Almost 4 weeks out and it still gets aggravated and swells a bit in the heat. Each person's healing is different.

    A good probiotic helps to avoid a yeast infection.

    Hope you all are recovering!

    B

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  • Bagsharon
    Bagsharon Member Posts: 200
    edited August 2016

    Antibiotics absolutely devastate my system and probiotics have never been of any help. But the flip side of that is that I'm not resistant to antibiotics like so many people are.

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  • scgirl78
    scgirl78 Member Posts: 5
    edited August 2016
    • I am 37 and pre menopausal
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