Breast Cancer Now Forum

i had a foam swim prosthesis and later got one that had a silicone core but foam outer layer - both from Oops and Downes in leeds. They do mail order. probably best not to squeeze the water out as you exit the pool........... 😉 ... View more

Hi janeRA I have just thought to have a look round the forums today after a long time away and found this thread that so fits with my current thoughts. My dx was Oct 30th and I find that pink oct starts in late August and goes (on and on...) and I find it quite stressful and distressing at times. I also have mycheckups around now, plus i have some recon stuff going on so when it might have actually slipped my mind it is difficult to see so many mentions of it around the place. i cannot just sit down with a trivial magazine- sometimes i like to worry about trivial c*** like whether i should be wearing a pencil skirt this season or a different colour of lipstick, it is a pleasure to "enjoy" that level of worry and pretend that all my worries are that size - only to have some Pink stuff and BC hype all over the place. I feel like staying in til the end of october and its all finished. I approve of money going to BC charities, but i dislike the media spin. I dislike the way they oversimplify and talk of the "Allclear" A few weeks ago i was talking to a young woman who was a few days away from finishing radio after chemo and a mast and had just found out there was no AllClear! How cruel is that! I think i am angry about it because it makes BC sound such a doddle and then other people think my attitude incomprehensible and "wrong" (maybe i should just be positive and all would be Ok!) The Norton book sounds good so i ordered it straiht away. ... View more

I saw Mr F (original plastic surgeon who did boob but NOT nipple)...?? I was asking if he could do anything about the nipple before my micro-pigmentation lady puts colour into the area. (Cos if he wanted to to do surgery on the site it would be cutting up any work she had done). He had mentioned a filler called Bio Alcamid but when he saw me he said the nipple skin area was too tight and a filler would project internally rather than externally. he said i didnt have enough skin for a mushroom and if I had it as a graft I'd have scars elsewhere; and that a skate flap would give me scars where i didnt have them and would be flat in 3 years. So that left a trompe d'loel by my lady, which is OK. I was disappointed but at least i still had that 1 option. Then i mentioned the deficit area above my boob as a candidate for filler but he thought it would be better to use a Coleman's fat transfer process and lipo some fat cells off somewhere else on my body and then squirt them in using an incision in the fold near my underarm. He aslo said about rmoving a bit more of the tummy skin on my chest - the lower/ vertical lobe - as this would give less skin of the wrong colour, and add a bit of projection whilst lifting that side a bit and also helping to conceal the deficit above the boob. Sounds like a win to me. I have spoken to my lady about delaying finishing the tattoo til he has done this and any swelling has settled. ... View more

try this link i have a flat nipple recon made from toe pulp and am seeing a plastic surgeon this week about bio alcamid i have also had a tattoo on both homegrown and recon side.....it was ***! so am having it faded and re-done as well http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7XNJ-4N14J41-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=1d3c6d05202b8bd613bce36ca41210a4 ... View more