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Hello and welcome.  Glad you found this site as I'm sure you'll get lots of support.  If you click on members names it should take you to profile so you can see their diagnosis.

It messes with your head getting a cancer diagnosis.  We have a general chat thread you might like to join.  Just click on last post and say hi.  Link below 

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Hi Chops369

Welcome to the forum and sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with breast cancer and need a masectomy.

Wishing you the best of luck with your surgery next Tuesday.

Best wishes

Daisy53

Hi and so sorry to hear your news. I was diagnosed with Breast cancer and had a lumpectomy 5 years ago. The tumour ended out being stage 2 and they didn’t get enough clearance around it, so they went in again. I‘ve now had a mastectomy last week. You are doing the right thing having surgery now - I found the auxiliary node clearance more painful than mastectomy, it just pulls rather than being painful but I have taken codeine at night and paracetamol. It’s early days for me but very glad I’ve had my breast tissue removed. Feel free to ask if you have any questions or just want to talk. Are you going to take a photo of your breast before the op? 

Hope everything goes well for you - you are in safe hands, have faith in them!