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Pillow post breast surgery

Mummymartin
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I’ve not long been diagnosed but have  been reading up about sleeping on back etc after breast surgery . Not sure I will be able to effectively so been looking at pillows for post surgery. I can see heart shaped ones where you put affected side’s arm over the pillow where the indent is at the top of the heart. Does anyone have any recommendations. 

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    Hi, I found it very painful to transfer out of bed  after micap surgery, so I took to sleeping on a recliner chair with a duvet over it, for quite a few nights. This was much better and less painful. During the day I used a high back chair with about 3 normal pillows to cushion my back. I did have a heart pillow too, but used this much less. 

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    Hi, I found it very painful to transfer out of bed  after micap surgery, so I took to sleeping on a recliner chair with a duvet over it, for quite a few nights. This was much better and less painful. During the day I used a high back chair with about 3 normal pillows to cushion my back. I did have a heart pillow too, but used this much less. 

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