Can anyone who has had implants put in under the chest muscle give me some advice re exercise please? I am desperate to lose some weight and regain my fitness but am struggling to find a comfortable way to exercise. I walk my dog every day and cycle but have tried to get back into swimming (LOVE swimming - swam 6 days a week prior to diagnosis) and have tried yoga and pilates but it all involves tensing the chest muscles which is horribly uncomfortable now that they’ve been pulled forward. Should I just persevere?
Any ideas welcome. Apart from running!! Have always hated running!!
Thanks.
i haven’t got expanders or anything in but I did have a lot of adhesions across my chest wall after mastectomy and rads so I understand about not wanting to tense it all up. Persevere with the gentle stretching though, it does get better. I would have thought yoga should be relaxing, no?
Have you considered cycling? I can’t do normal bikes because of excess pressure on the arms/shoulders but my gym has lean-back (recumbent) bikes where the arms are there purely to stabilise you and to keep the heart monitor alive. I admit it is boring, but it does get the butt off you eventually 
I also got back onto gentle swimming (once i mastered the issue of what to wear!) legs only on my back when the pool is quiet, and they also had an aquaerobics class where I could pick and choose how much I followed of the instructor’s lead. It was hard work considering what we did, and it blew a few calories away.
Sandytoes - I understand what you are saying - have implants under the muscle, and it does feel weird. What I have been told is that nothing I do will actually harm the muscles (within normal reason!) but you just need to take it steady.
I’ve done yoga in the past and I think it’s probably too early days - I think people just thinking it’s sitting around saying “Om” but actually it is bloody hard work! I’d like to get back to it eventually though. I’d also like to get back to horseriding … when the weather improves!