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 Asked: 2/7/2012 I had TE placed following bilateral mastectomy and felt small nodules on same side as breast cancer was found.
 Asked: 1/29/2012 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 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 I had a nipple sparing right mastectomy with tissue expander.
 Asked: 1/22/2012 I had bilateral mast dec 14th.with tissue exp.
 Asked: 1/18/2012 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 I had expander exchange a week ago.
 Asked: 1/9/2012 I''m scheduled to have unilateral mastectomy with tissue expander placed on Jan 26, 2012.
 Asked: 1/8/2012 I had a bilateral masectomy on June 23 with expanders.
 Asked: 1/5/2012 Hi Lillie! I had b-mastectomy a year ago.
 Asked: 1/5/2012 Hi Experts, I had DCIS, grade 1 and had bi-lateral skin sparing mastectomies (BMX) on 9/20/11.
 Asked: 1/2/2012 I had a bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders on 6 Dec 2011.
 Asked: 12/31/2011 Hello I plan to do radiation after chemo.
 Asked: 12/28/2011 I had a bilateral mastectomy on Februar 4, 2011 fallowed by radiation.
 Asked: 12/27/2011 I asked a question and got a response from you.
 Asked: 12/22/2011 I am 47 years old and had a bilateral mastectomy w/ tissue expander & alloderm reconstruction a month ago.
 Asked: 12/20/2011 I have a question on something. I have Atypical Duct Hyperplasia.
 Asked: 12/20/2011 4wks since bilateral mastecomy with tissue expanders.
 Asked: 12/13/2011 I am 3 weeks out from a double mastectomy with expanders and have not have the ports accessed yet.
 Asked: 12/13/2011 I had a bilateral mastectomie,ILC in left breast and DCis in right.
 Asked: 12/12/2011 Hello! I had bilateral skin sparing mastectomy with tissue expanders on 10/18 for DCIS.
 Asked: 12/7/2011 I am 10weeks out from BMX/TE placement with Alloderm slings.
 Asked: 12/2/2011 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 I had bilateral mastectomy with permanent implants in May.
 Asked: 11/18/2011 I''m curious about re-excision for positive margins.
 Asked: 11/18/2011 I had silicone implants put in following BC.
 Asked: 11/16/2011 Had exchange w/nipple reconstruction Friday and am unhappy with the nipples.
 Asked: 11/15/2011 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 I had te placed following my bilateral mastectomy.
 Asked: 11/8/2011 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 I had bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders 8/30/11.
 Asked: 10/29/2011 I had bilateral mastectomies (because of DCIS)Sept.
 Asked: 10/25/2011 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 I had bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders one month ago.
 Asked: 10/23/2011 I have had a bilateral mastectomy and now have a tissue expander.
 Asked: 10/23/2011 I am now at three weeks out from my bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders placed.
 Asked: 10/20/2011 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 I had bilateral mastectomy and te placed 18 days ago.
 Asked: 10/18/2011 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 I am having my te exchanged for silicone implants.
 Asked: 10/6/2011 I had BMC 5/10/11 with TE placement.
 Asked: 10/4/2011 I''m curious about fascia removal during mastectomy.
 Asked: 10/4/2011 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 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 When will Hopkins begin to offer minimally invasive reconstruction options? In Sept.
 Asked: 9/25/2011 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 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 I have had tissue expanders in place since July 2010 after a double mastectomy.
 Asked: 8/30/2011 Hi and thanks for the site. Should my husband come with me to my pre-op.
 Asked: 8/24/2011 I had a bilater mastectomy with expanders..
 Asked: 8/17/2011 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 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 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 Hello, My mother recently had a mastectomy on her left breast with a tissue expander placed.
 Asked: 8/2/2011 Hi, I had PBMastectomies ( SIMPLE) done about 5 years ago.
 Asked: 8/1/2011 I am BRCA1 pos and don''t see the breast specialist until September.
 Asked: 7/28/2011 Hello, I had reconstruction with TE''s placed, and I had the exchange surgery 8 weeks ago.
 Asked: 7/26/2011 I had bilateral mastectomy done and te placed.
 Asked: 7/19/2011 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 I had a prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomy on May 19th and have had 6 fills since.
 Asked: 7/12/2011 Hello, My wife is scheduled 7/22 for bilat mastectomy with expanders and reconstruction.
 Asked: 7/8/2011 I will be calling to get an appointment from your plastic surgeon expert.
 Asked: 7/6/2011 I had a left side mastectomy in September 2010 with a TE placement.
 Asked: 7/5/2011 I have 650 TE in and am expanded to 700 now.
 Asked: 7/3/2011 I had double mastectomy with tissue expanders on May 27.
 Asked: 7/2/2011 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 Are there complications when radiation is performed AFTER mastectomy with TE? Expansion was not complete when radiation was started.
 Asked: 6/25/2011 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 Had expander swapped for implant on 6/17.
 Asked: 6/20/2011 Question re: te migration. I had bilat mastectomy 5/12/11 with te placed.
 Asked: 6/18/2011 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 Diagnosed with DCIS, non-invasive stage 0 last year, left breast.
 Asked: 6/14/2011 I just had my implants of 5 years removed due to capsular contrature.
 Asked: 6/11/2011 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 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 I to had a mastectomy with tissue expander 1 year ago, 6 months ago I had the saline implant.
 Asked: 6/6/2011 I had a bilateral mastectomy two months ago with tissue expanders.
 Asked: 6/5/2011 I am scheduled for skin-sparing mastectomy with tissue expander.
 Asked: 6/4/2011 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 I had a right breast mastectomy 3 weeks ago...with tissue expander placed at time of surgery.
 Asked: 5/29/2011 so, I had a dbl mast last june for dcis-brca2 positive.
 Asked: 5/29/2011 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 how much is 50cc''s and how many visits for a C cup reconstruction.
 Asked: 5/21/2011 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 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 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 Thank you for answering my previous question about Herceptin.
 Asked: 5/7/2011 I just had a double mastectomy last week.
 Asked: 5/6/2011 Was dx w/DCIS in Jan, have since had a mx on treated side.
 Asked: 4/23/2011 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 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 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 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 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 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 Do I need to wear a support bra 24/7 with expanders?
 Asked: 4/12/2011 I am 61 yrs old and just had a left breast mastectomy with tissue expander placement.
 Asked: 4/3/2011 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 Hi, I had my permanent implants placed 2 weeks ago.
 Asked: 4/2/2011 I was told that I would need to take the drug Herceptin for at least a year because my breast cancer is HER2 positive.
 
 
 
 
 

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