Breast implant is a peculiar shape

Hi Lemonblossom

Welcome and sorry to hear that you that you have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Wishing you the best of luck with your results.

Best wishes

Daisy53

Hi

What an appalling attitude from your consultant. You can ask your breast cancer nurses questions cregarding your surgery. Hopefully your consultant was just having a bad day...

I asked my breast cancer nurse  a couple of questions, including the number of sentinel nodes removed and she found out and got back straight away. She was also great at answering my questions regarding surgery. 

I delayed my surgery by a 4 weeks so I could stay with the surgeon who diagnosed my cancer as she inspired me with so much confidence although she offered to pass my case onto a colleague if I wanted an earlier date for surgery. I had my op last Wednesday and I'm so glad I waited.

Delays need to be weighed up with regard to risk, all I would say is dont be afraid to explore your options .

I hope all goes well. 

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Malposition of implant is a greater risk if you have well developed chest muscles- I was told that. I’d be sceptical that they’ve never seen something like this - it’s actually a known complication. Given that most of my knowledge is from watching Botched, I can’t be sure but I have suspicions he didn’t make the breast pocket large enough. But it may settle just with gravity. Or you could have capsular contracture (scarring) but I believe that’s unlikely early on. Whatever, you can always get a second opinion from a different plastic surgeon- that is your right under the NHS, and problems with implants are almost always correctable. But your current surgeon sounds awful!

Thank you for your reply and best wishes for a speedy recovery. I'm thinking of changing my surgeon to someone with better communication skills

I have told her that I dont feel listened to but today I had a reply within hours of emailing photos of my breast to her , so that's an improvement.   It was suggested that the implant may be too small which i'm.not really buying as I was only a 34a prior to surgery I mean do implants even come smaller than that ? Still I'm recovering well day 13 today,  driving from day 7 just so damm tired !  Never experienced tiredness like it . Hoping to return to part time work next week . It's looking unlikely. 

Thank you for the reply and no I wasn't convinced that she hadn't seen it before either . It's been excruciatingly uncomfortable pressing against my chest wall i did consider capsular contracture as you say , but it's been this way since day one.  Fortunately  it's much better today  . Theres no doubt it will have to be replaced maybe at the same time they put in the other implant . I'm seriously thinking about changing to another consultant,  but I'm worried that i might get the reputation of being difficult.  Next stop radiotherapy which luckily I can have at a hospital closer to home .its great talking with you guys I you've reassured me that I'm Not being over sensitive. 

If you asked for a second opinion just about the reconstruction in a few months you could find out if it’s just a temporary problem or if the original op had been done badly. Plastic surgeons tend to be critical of one another’s work!

Good point I might well do that .