January 2018 Surgery group! Please see updated list in thread!

I am having a single mastectomy with diep flap reconstruction surgery January 16 as well. They'll also check the sentinel node.

I'm nervous for such a long surgery. How are you doing?!

Double mastectomy with DIEP recon for me, Jan 8. I had the sentinel node biopsy done this week already (Monday).

I am pretty nervous too, the surgery I had on Monday was pretty minor in comparison but I am healing pretty well which is helping ease my fears about the 'big one'. I don't really like taking painkillers so I tend to sit in pain when I don't really need to, which I know is bad! I don't think I'll have much choice this time, with such big incisions to handle.

I am very nervous too I am hoping my radiated skin will not cause any problems. If your having implants how did you all decide what type to get. My PS said I did not have to decide right away since I will need TE first.

hi everyone. I'm having my TE exchange surgery on January 5th. I know this isn't my first but I'm still very nervous. I just hope my breast turn out ok to help me feel more complete. Then in a few months I can get my nipples tattooed. That will be the finishing touch. All you ladies are strong. I will keep you in prayer. Hugs

Right nipple sparing mastectomy with tissue expander scheduled for January 2. Hosting Christmas dinner and hoping not to get a cold before surgery Had left MX With TE a year ago...had lots of weird pains with that one and a pleural effusion. Hoping this one is easier. Choose smooth silicone implant SCX rather than shaped textured. Shaped textured may have looked better, but textured have a very small risk of ALCL (lymphoma). Thinking of everyone undergoing surgery this month

I am having a BMX with tissue expander on Friday, Dec 29th. I hope I can join y’all even though I’m a couple days early.

Sounds like this first week is really painful. Not looking forward to that. But most people on the boards seem to say that you feel better after the first couple weeks.

I'm having a lumpectomy on right breast, with removal of one sentinel node, on January 12. Papillary carcinoma in situ 1.6 cm. Doc says there is a 2% chance cancer will be found in node. Feeling blessed that it is not worse, and trying to focus on the that. It is close to the nipple, so may lose that.

I’ve already had my SNB. I was already under when they did the blue dye injections so I don’t know if that hurts. I did not have any anesthesia for the radioactive marker injections though, and they did hurt but just while she was doing the physical injection, it was maybe about 30 seconds per breast. I breathed and cursed my way through it. After she had done the injections I had to lie on the table of the X-ray machine for 20 minutes and massage the dye into my system, my arms were sore from that . Then. It was about 20 minutes of imaging.

I’m also anxious about the long surgery, I’ve been sedated 3 times before but only for an hour or so each time, 10 hours is something else. At least I know I won’t have to spend the entire day nil by mouth like I did for the SNB, I had to check in at the hospital at 10am and didn’t enter the OR until 4:15pm, that was awful.