Hello all
I’m having a mastectomy on my remaining boob in January and apparently they will be using a vacuum dressing on the wound I never had this first time around so wondered if anyone had had this following surgery. I’m assuming it’s different from the usual drains.
I had this post my double mastectomy on each breast. It is called a pico dressing. It was kept on for a week and removed with the drains. It wasn’t painful (although I’m numb over each breast) and sometimes made a low sucking or humming noise. This was only once in a while and not constant. The actual “pack” attached to the dressing can be clipped to a post of bra when moving. I hope this helps.
Helen
Hi, I had a mastectomy the week before last and have a Pico 14 dressing on, due to be removed tomorrow. It's been fine tho I did have a issue with the sticky strips peeling back causing the unit to beep a lot but this was fixed with some new sticky strips. Any questions just ask x
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