If You Loose Your Breast Due To Breast Cancer Can You?
get breast implants after it goes into remission?
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get breast implants after it goes into remission?
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January 15th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Yes, breast reconstruction is an option after mastectomy. Sometimes it takes place at the time of surgery, but it can be months or years later.
It doesn’t always involve implants; this link gives information about the types of reconstruction, and further links to details:http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/su…
Personally I decided against reconstruction. I felt – and still feel – that after all I’d been through I didn’t want further surgery unless it was necessary, and I didn’t want to spend any of whatever time I had left recovering from major surgery. And breast reconstruction is major surgery – a much more bigger and lengthier operation than mastectomy, with a longer recovery time.
January 16th, 2010 at 12:54 am
Sure you can and the government will pay for it any time you decide to have it done (from what I have been told).
My wife had her mastectomy two months ago and she is now taking Taxol and then will begin radiation. She is taking a year off before she decides if she want to go through more painful surgery.
It does get tiring. Good luck to you!
January 16th, 2010 at 4:55 am
Yes. And the other person is right. It could be 3 months or 3 years from your diagnosis, insurance has to cover it. I had the TRAM about a year after diagnosis.
January 16th, 2010 at 8:06 am
It really depends on how the surgery was done. If it is not done properly then it cannot be done
January 16th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Yes. Reconstructive surgery is common after mastectomy.