Amoena contact form love it!

Carol,

Good for you!!! I wear the Amoena Tria Contact Lite most of the time and also really love it. The stickiness does decline a bit with time but it still sticks enough to be able to use regular bras. It's definitely important to me to be able to wear regular bras since I haven't found a mastectomy bra yet that fits me right.

To date, I've used the special soap that comes with the form but I'm starting to run low. Does anyone know if it makes a difference if I use regular hand soap instead of the special Amoena soap?

Carol, thanks for reporting on this and glad you like the new form! I'm especially interested that it works for you, since, if I remember correctly, you had radiation after your mastectomy. I've worried that contact forms wouldn't work on my radiated side, though my skin on that side appears fine. 

One question with the Tria or Tresia, though. How do you position it so that it fits correctly in whatever bra you choose? With only a single mastectomy, I guess you can line it up with your natural breast. Is that right? Or do you put your bra on first and then "insert" the form? Do you think these forms would be hard to use with bilaterals? I know the Tria Plus, which uses skin supports, works for bilats, but not sure the Tria or Tresia would work, too. Also, how do you remove the form? Is it hard to "pull" off?

I feel as if I've asked these questions before, but would appreciate your input again (I didn't have chemo, but still my brain is like a sieve!). Thanks.

p.s. I just got back from a two-week vacation, one week of which was hiking. For hiking, I wore my Still You camisole with Amoena 126 leisure forms, but for everything else I wore my Airway Tritex forms with the microfiber backs in regular bras. The Airways look great and do stay in place, but at times (like when I had a cold and was coughing a lot) I felt a little insecure and worried that they would shift. That's why a contact form sounds so appealing.

p.p.s. I hiked with a group of 18 couples and among them was another woman who had recently had bilateral mastectomies and no reconstruction. This made me realize, yet again, how many of us are out there. 

I am not able to use adhesive, I break out and get raw from band aids, and when I had to have a mastectomy and it had to be bandaged with adhesive I was in so much pain the doctor had to finally wrap me in an ace bandage, I got raw from the adhesive and it caused me much pain, has anyone else had this problem.