Mammograms after reconstruction?

Her pcp is wrong, no breast tissue no mammogram.

Heck, the only good thing I got out of bc was no more mammograms !

If anything, she could have an ultrasound. But sometimes you have to be pretty firm refusing the mammos.

This is interesting to me. I had bmx with reconstruction in December and just had my exchange surgery a few weeks ago. When I saw my breast surgeon for my 6 month follow up, she scheduled a diagnostic mammogram to occur a year from that appointment, but no followup before then. My notes had indicated I would see her every 6 months for a few years, so the lack of a visit for an entire year concerned me (when I reviewed the notes a week ago), but also I was concerned about mammogram on a reconstructed breast, because that did not make sense to me. I asked about the mammogram issue then, and she said the wait was to ensure everything was properly healed from my exchange surgery. She also said she wanted to look for any changes in the area where my DCIS was before they became palpable.

Longer story, but I had re-excision for a close margin. The pathology report had an odd statement that I've been trying to get to the bottom of. I've asked her about it more than once, and she didn't understand it either. At this appointment, though, she said she thought the pathologist might be trying to cover himself. So when she scheduled a diagnostic mammogram, that concerned me that she is trying to cover herself. But I am a suspicious person by nature, and she has been completely straightforward with me so far and everything she has suggested has been aggressive toward addressing any risk.

I know it sounds like I've been completely irresponsible about this, but my mother had just passed away two weeks before I had the 6-month followup, and I have been dealing with the grief and handling her affairs and all that entails, plus everything else that goes on in a normal life, and I just could not add another thing to my plate. I stopped even reading this board for a few months, But as I read other posts on this issue, I'm concerned.

My gyno tried to schedule a mammogram for me the year after my surgery. I declined. She wasn't aware that mammograms weren't needed after a BMX. She just hadn't been educated on the subject.

My follow up (post BMX/recon) has been MRIs to check integrity of implants (ordered by my PS about every 3 years--also will reveal any other problems like a recurrence) and ultrasounds to check scar tissue lumps and bumps (also ordered by my PS when I thought I had something that needed investigation). The last MRI report "detected no residual breast tissue" so that made me relieved.

No mammograms for me. I would refuse, since I would be afraid they might damage implants anyway.

Claire in AZ