Did you regret a lift on the "good" breast?

For me, the lift was a breeze, especially compared to the ongoing disaster that is my LD flap/implant on the opposite side. I needed quite a bit of a lift, however, not a little bit of one.

The lifted breast looked good despite the scarring, and the recovery was a no brainer. Unfortunately, my medical team completely missed a new 8 cm primary in the lifted breast prior to the surgery, and the inflammation from the surgery masked the MRI done on it afterwards, so my diagnosis was delayed.

Had a lift on right at the same time as exchange surgery on left. Negative right mammogram prior to lift. Looked great except for less volumn. I was debating about doing a small lift on the right when, 6 months later, a MRI showed DCIS on right....so another MX. Good luck with your decision

Notbroken, yes I had a lollipop lift. The aerola scarring is hardly noticeable. The “stick" part of the lollipop did not heal well and I have a wide red scar. I have to think the new primary hampered the healing.

They didn't do an MRI prior to the lift bc they said it would be hard to read due to carryover inflammation for the LD flap on the other side.

I was originally diagnosed in 2007. I had a local recurrence in 2015 (hence the mx/LD flap then) and the 2015 MRI that caught the recurrence didn't show anything on the “good" side. So when they did the lift in 2016, they thought my mammo prior to surgery would suffice. Of course it didn't—I've had 3 tumors missed on mammo now. Anyhow, I switched oncs right after the 2016 lift. That onc did a 2017 MRI that looked odd, but they attributed it and the slightly enlarged nodes to the lift. But we repeated the MRI in six months just to be sure, and bam, there was an 8cm tumor with multiple nodes.

In fairness, this tumor is very fast growing, but I do feel like my surgeon should have caught something on clinical exam prior to surgery.

I had a similar question. I am going in soon for a unilateral mastectomy. I’m concerned about appearing lopsided. I was considering asking the ps to do a small implant on the other side, and doing the reconstruction slightly larger than my natural breast to even me out, so they look uniform. I feel like one real breast and one implant breast will always feel and look off. But if I have them do an implant on my good breast too, and make each breast equal, it’s a win win. Maybe?

They are doing my reconstruction at the same time as my mastectomy.

never regretted my lift on my (left ) good breast. Actually very grateful for it because it actually was a blessing in disguise. The PS sent the fragments into pathology : standard procedure for him especially for his reconstruction patients. It came back with DCIS in it so He immediately had me seeing the breast surgeon and we started the whole process all over again

To those who had the lift on one side already: Does a lift also address underarm side boob? My DIEP breast is a good match for my other one in terms of size, and mostly in shape. My original breast is a little droopier, which I know the lift addresses, but also has a lot more volume to the side.

Cool-thanks, Run!