Has anyone been swimming with silicon implants. I had my reconstruction 7 weeks ago and have just ventured back into a swimming pool and it felt like I had two tonnes of bricks attached to my front when I lent forward and took a few,strokes!?
Hi Rosie
I found this info cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/type/breast-cancer/treatment/surgery/reconstruction/exercises-after-breast-reconstruction-using-back-muscle
which may be of interest…all seemed very dry and informative until you come to the end para about swimming, it says ''Try to stick to breast stoke at first. At 8 weeks you will be able to do front crawl, back stroke and the butterfly stroke (assuming you could do them before). Sorry this made me giggle and reminded me of the Tampax advert from years ago where I was most disappointed to find that I still couldnt ski or hang glide after using them…the info then moves on to sex, but thats a whole different area!!
I would be disappointed that the implants felt like bricks as I think I may have been imagining more like water wings…
This has made me curious about my own situation as I had very very large breasts which acted like bouyancy aids and kept turning me over when I swam and now I have very small breasts having had a therapeutic bilateral mammoplasty (reduction to us mortals).
Hugs
Katie
Hi Rosie
I do hope you find a solution to the ‘problem’ or at least are able to adapt as swimming is so good on so many levels for us.
x
Yes I have but i onlyhave an implant on one side. I can’t do the crawl properly anymore (not sure I could before) it is just a big splashing about and looks ridiculous, so I stick to breast stroke. I do find swimming a good exercise especially if you have had ANC - better than doing those exercises on dry land!
Happy splashing!
K M x