bras after reconstruction

Bras for me were a personal nightmare since I was a drastically different bra size than before even though I'm not that much different in actual size.

The Natori Bliss Perfection wire free T shirt bra and the Soma embraceable bras are the ones that I'm wearing now. They look normal under clothes. It took quite a lot of searching though. My surgeon has said no underwire allowed!

Yummie also makes some bras that are wire free and are good for wearing around the house; they also work under clothes. I have a couple of those too, they are not as supportive as the two I mentioned above.

Anything is better than those awful surgical bras! Definitely not clothes-friendly!

Good luck!

My PS told me that I could wear whatever bra I wanted after six weeks. I was most comfortable with some very stretchy front close ones that I purchased from Amazon. I think I was about ten weeks out when I went for a bra fitting at a specialty shop.

I would definitely recommend a fitting. While I don't look a lot different in clothes than before and the weigh is similar to what was removed - the implants are much wider. My cup size went from a B (probably should have been a C) to a DDD or E depending on brand.

My favorite bras are a couple Natori ones I got from Nordstrom's. Only things I've ever bought from there!

I like wearing kind of stretchy bras. The only thing I was told was not to wear an underwire. The bras also have a small pad because the place where my nipples were, is a little obvious because the nipples are very large. There's just skin there, but they seem to be getting larger as I get older. Crazy! I know that they are much larger than my old, normal nipples. I wouldn't want them to be seen through a thin bra and thin blouse.

I just learned by reading on this community, the insurance might cover your mastectomy bras, some a limited number a year (3 or 4) and some like Cigna, unlimited. I have Cigna and on their website they say Mastectomy bras are covered following a mastectomy under a customer's medical benefit but i need to call and ask about any limitations.
I received a prescription for mastectomy bra from my plastic surgeon and i understood Nordstrom is in Cigna network, for example, e.g. the store could submit the claim directly to the insurance. This could make our lives a bit easier. I wanted to mention just in case someone did not know ( like me...)