need temp support ideas--uni mast/recon, lrg breast remaining

Ktweasel
Ktweasel Member Posts: 26
edited July 2017 in Surgery - Before, During, and After

Can someone offer a suggestion on how to safely support my one remaining breast. The camisole I got at the hospital is a joke when you are this large. I have one side with a breast that hangs down to my stomach. I still have drains in (i am 4 days post op). I am embarrassed to even go outside. I would like to find a way to lift myself up on that side safely so that if I put padding on the other side they look remotely symmetrical. It seems like all the post surgery wear caters to either a double mastectomy or women with much smaller breasts. Is there a hack with an ace bandage or something? Help!!

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited July 2017

    When I left the hospital (UMX), I was strapped with sort of a vet wrap bandage so I was almost flat. That stayed on for 10 days before Surgeon removed it. So I just wore floppy sweat shirts (it was in Oct and it's cold here by then). I was not 'small' or 'large' (34/36, B/C). My Surgeon had used surgical glue on the exterior of incision (internal was dissolvable sutures) so there was no dressing/bandaging to be changed during that time. After the wrap came off I wore my old bras with the little 'poofie' pros that the local ACS had sent me in a 'Care Package'. As I said , it was cold by then so baggy tops were my usual wear anyway.

    I didn't get my mast. bras and pros. for about 3 months post UMX. This allows for healing and post-op swalling to go down.

    Also 1of my drains came out at 2 weeks post- op with no neg. results. The other at 4 weeks post-op and developed a large seroma after it's removal.

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