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| Asked: 2/7/2012
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I had TE placed following bilateral mastectomy and felt small nodules on same side as breast cancer was found. |
| Asked: 1/29/2012
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What causes a staph aureus infection with a tissue expander after a mastectomy? How would you know the infection was a result of an error... |
| Asked: 1/28/2012
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If someone has breast cancer in one breast and is having a mastectomy, in general can that person receive a prophylactic mastectomy on other... |
| Asked: 1/26/2012
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I had a nipple sparing right mastectomy with tissue expander. |
| Asked: 1/22/2012
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I had bilateral mast dec 14th.with tissue exp. |
| Asked: 1/18/2012
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I had exchange surgery 2 weeks ago, is it normal for me to feel the silicone implant and see rippling or should I wait 6... |
| Asked: 1/14/2012
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I had expander exchange a week ago. |
| Asked: 1/9/2012
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I''m scheduled to have unilateral mastectomy with tissue expander placed on Jan 26, 2012. |
| Asked: 1/8/2012
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I had a bilateral masectomy on June 23 with expanders. |
| Asked: 1/5/2012
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Hi Lillie! I had b-mastectomy a year ago. |
| Asked: 1/5/2012
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Hi Experts, I had DCIS, grade 1 and had bi-lateral skin sparing mastectomies (BMX) on 9/20/11. |
| Asked: 1/2/2012
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I had a bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders on 6 Dec 2011. |
| Asked: 12/31/2011
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Hello I plan to do radiation after chemo. |
| Asked: 12/28/2011
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I had a bilateral mastectomy on Februar 4, 2011 fallowed by radiation. |
| Asked: 12/27/2011
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I asked a question and got a response from you. |
| Asked: 12/22/2011
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I am 47 years old and had a bilateral mastectomy w/ tissue expander & alloderm reconstruction a month ago. |
| Asked: 12/20/2011
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I have a question on something. I have Atypical Duct Hyperplasia. |
| Asked: 12/20/2011
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4wks since bilateral mastecomy with tissue expanders. |
| Asked: 12/13/2011
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I am 3 weeks out from a double mastectomy with expanders and have not have the ports accessed yet. |
| Asked: 12/13/2011
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I had a bilateral mastectomie,ILC in left breast and DCis in right. |
| Asked: 12/12/2011
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Hello! I had bilateral skin sparing mastectomy with tissue expanders on 10/18 for DCIS. |
| Asked: 12/7/2011
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I am 10weeks out from BMX/TE placement with Alloderm slings. |
| Asked: 12/2/2011
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I had BMX with TE on 11/14 and am just now feeling on the road to recovery with some range of movement finally in my SNB arm. |
| Asked: 11/19/2011
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I had bilateral mastectomy with permanent implants in May. |
| Asked: 11/18/2011
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I''m curious about re-excision for positive margins. |
| Asked: 11/18/2011
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I had silicone implants put in following BC. |
| Asked: 11/16/2011
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Had exchange w/nipple reconstruction Friday and am unhappy with the nipples. |
| Asked: 11/15/2011
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Had a bilateral mastectomy 6 1/2 weeks ago and because no treatment is needed, I am getting ready to have my exchange surgery. |
| Asked: 11/9/2011
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I had te placed following my bilateral mastectomy. |
| Asked: 11/8/2011
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I had a bilateral mastectomy a few weeks ago and started reconstruction at the time of surgery. My plastic surgeon is using tissue expanders that she... |
| Asked: 11/7/2011
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I had bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders 8/30/11. |
| Asked: 10/29/2011
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I had bilateral mastectomies (because of DCIS)Sept. |
| Asked: 10/25/2011
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Good afternoon, I am considering asking my doctor about doing nipple reconstruction at the same time as my exchange, for financial reasons (my insurance is... |
| Asked: 10/24/2011
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I had bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders one month ago. |
| Asked: 10/23/2011
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I have had a bilateral mastectomy and now have a tissue expander. |
| Asked: 10/23/2011
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I am now at three weeks out from my bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders placed. |
| Asked: 10/20/2011
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On 7/25/11, I had a bilateral mastectomy for DCIS in the left side w/ strong family hx of breast cancer. |
| Asked: 10/19/2011
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I had bilateral mastectomy and te placed 18 days ago. |
| Asked: 10/18/2011
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have had right breast mastectomy. No radiation or chemo needed (for which I am most grateful)--- no cancer cells detected following surgery. |
| Asked: 10/18/2011
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I am having my te exchanged for silicone implants. |
| Asked: 10/6/2011
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I had BMC 5/10/11 with TE placement. |
| Asked: 10/4/2011
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I''m curious about fascia removal during mastectomy. |
| Asked: 10/4/2011
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I had a bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders placed at time of surgery and was doing well with range of motion. |
| Asked: 10/3/2011
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I am 5 wks post op for right breast mastectomy, have filled expander to 300cc''s so far, but there is a strip of skin under... |
| Asked: 9/28/2011
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When will Hopkins begin to offer minimally invasive reconstruction options? In Sept. |
| Asked: 9/25/2011
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I have had a temporary exchange in the right breast for 5 yrs due to the fact i couldn''t afford to get the permanent implant with my insurance. |
| Asked: 9/16/2011
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PS wants to do some fat injection in area of slight asymetry of one of my TE''s, either during the exchange or during nipple recon. |
| Asked: 9/5/2011
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I have had tissue expanders in place since July 2010 after a double mastectomy. |
| Asked: 8/30/2011
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Hi and thanks for the site. Should my husband come with me to my pre-op. |
| Asked: 8/24/2011
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I had a bilater mastectomy with expanders.. |
| Asked: 8/17/2011
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hello...if i am BRAC2 positive had a prophylactic mastectomy and a full hysterectomy..was told that i was a ticking time bomb with the tumors i... |
| Asked: 8/15/2011
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I had my bilateral mastectomy on July 22, 2011 and was partially filled at surgery and 1st office fill was August 3 and 2nd office... |
| Asked: 8/14/2011
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hi..i had my expanders filled to 500cc - i was told that my dr ordered 750 implant...will this fit? iam afraid that maybe the wrong size was ordered. |
| Asked: 8/4/2011
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Hello, My mother recently had a mastectomy on her left breast with a tissue expander placed. |
| Asked: 8/2/2011
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Hi, I had PBMastectomies ( SIMPLE) done about 5 years ago. |
| Asked: 8/1/2011
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I am BRCA1 pos and don''t see the breast specialist until September. |
| Asked: 7/28/2011
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Hello, I had reconstruction with TE''s placed, and I had the exchange surgery 8 weeks ago. |
| Asked: 7/26/2011
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I had bilateral mastectomy done and te placed. |
| Asked: 7/19/2011
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Hi. I had bilateral mastectomies with placement of tissue expanders on 2/17/2010, and I had the tissue expander exchange surgery on 6/2/2010. |
| Asked: 7/18/2011
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I had a prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomy on May 19th and have had 6 fills since. |
| Asked: 7/12/2011
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Hello, My wife is scheduled 7/22 for bilat mastectomy with expanders and reconstruction. |
| Asked: 7/8/2011
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I will be calling to get an appointment from your plastic surgeon expert. |
| Asked: 7/6/2011
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I had a left side mastectomy in September 2010 with a TE placement. |
| Asked: 7/5/2011
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I have 650 TE in and am expanded to 700 now. |
| Asked: 7/3/2011
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I had double mastectomy with tissue expanders on May 27. |
| Asked: 7/2/2011
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Is there something wrong if I am having really bad pain 17 days after double mastectomy and expanders placement and 3 days after an initial... |
| Asked: 7/2/2011
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Are there complications when radiation is performed AFTER mastectomy with TE? Expansion was not complete when radiation was started. |
| Asked: 6/25/2011
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Hi Lillie, Can I be a C cup if I was a small B before? I am currently filled to 500 of my 550 expanders and am only a B. |
| Asked: 6/21/2011
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Had expander swapped for implant on 6/17. |
| Asked: 6/20/2011
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Question re: te migration. I had bilat mastectomy 5/12/11 with te placed. |
| Asked: 6/18/2011
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Was diagnosed with ILC on Nov. 30th - had 2 places in left breast so close together they decided to measure it as one, which came out to 8cm. |
| Asked: 6/17/2011
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Diagnosed with DCIS, non-invasive stage 0 last year, left breast. |
| Asked: 6/14/2011
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I just had my implants of 5 years removed due to capsular contrature. |
| Asked: 6/11/2011
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Thank you for your prompt answer. I did see my surgeon and he told me it could be an infection or capsular contractue. |
| Asked: 6/11/2011
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Had bi-lat with tissue expanders St. Pattys day, had last fill 3 wks ago and getting final implants june 17th. |
| Asked: 6/8/2011
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I to had a mastectomy with tissue expander 1 year ago, 6 months ago I had the saline implant. |
| Asked: 6/6/2011
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I had a bilateral mastectomy two months ago with tissue expanders. |
| Asked: 6/5/2011
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I am scheduled for skin-sparing mastectomy with tissue expander. |
| Asked: 6/4/2011
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Absolute minimum time between TE and Exchange? My PS says he likes to wait only 3 weeks between last fill and exchange. |
| Asked: 6/3/2011
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I had a right breast mastectomy 3 weeks ago...with tissue expander placed at time of surgery. |
| Asked: 5/29/2011
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so, I had a dbl mast last june for dcis-brca2 positive. |
| Asked: 5/29/2011
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How do you avoid capsulitis? I had my last fill and will be getting silicone implants 500cc''s in 2 weeks. |
| Asked: 5/28/2011
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how much is 50cc''s and how many visits for a C cup reconstruction. |
| Asked: 5/21/2011
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I had mastectomy,left breast, with inmediate reconstruction, after 5 weeks my implant was removed because I had a huge infection.(it exploded). |
| Asked: 5/18/2011
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I had a mastectomy 3 weeks ago and had size 500 expanders put in and had a fill of 200 ccs at the time of surgery. |
| Asked: 5/10/2011
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I had a bi-lateral mastectomy with tissue expanders on 7/14/10, since then I''ve been expanded to 600cc and have been in constant pain with muscle... |
| Asked: 5/7/2011
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Thank you for answering my previous question about Herceptin. |
| Asked: 5/7/2011
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I just had a double mastectomy last week. |
| Asked: 5/6/2011
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Was dx w/DCIS in Jan, have since had a mx on treated side. |
| Asked: 4/23/2011
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Hi Lillie, I''m asking my question here since I keep getting error messages in the other category sites.. Again, I can''t thank you enough for the... |
| Asked: 4/22/2011
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how much can tissue expanders, 700cc allergan 133MX, 15CM, extra projection, 14 high, 7.6 projection, safely be overfilled to? I guess that I do not... |
| Asked: 4/20/2011
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I HAD A EXPANDER PUT IN FIRST IT KEPT BUST LOOSE THAN IT TURN BLACK THAN I GOT INFECTION HAD TO TAKE INVEIN ANTIBOTES FOR... |
| Asked: 4/17/2011
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Dear Lillie, Had BLMX with expanders on April 5th and am still in some pain(He filled me 400 cc with alloderm @ surgery). |
| Asked: 4/15/2011
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I have breast cancer and was told that the drug Herceptin would not only help to keep the breast cancer from coming back, but keep... |
| Asked: 4/14/2011
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I am having a mastectomy on the 25th and was told because the cancer is only 2 millimeters, I do not need chemo, but because... |
| Asked: 4/13/2011
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Do I need to wear a support bra 24/7 with expanders? |
| Asked: 4/12/2011
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I am 61 yrs old and just had a left breast mastectomy with tissue expander placement. |
| Asked: 4/3/2011
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I wondered if you know anything about the Penguin Cold Cap that is supposed to help women from loosing hair during chemo and if you... |
| Asked: 4/2/2011
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Hi, I had my permanent implants placed 2 weeks ago. |
| Asked: 4/2/2011
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I was told that I would need to take the drug Herceptin for at least a year because my breast cancer is HER2 positive. |
