Hi everyone. I am looking for advice and support really of amyone who has had a DIEP flap fail on them in any way. My flap was fine until the 8th week when the scabs came off and revealed 2 x big holes in breast and all hell let loose. Since then Ive been admitted into hospital twice with cellulitis of the breast and leaking disgusting necrotuc coffee coloured gunk for last 6 weeks at least. Im now on permanent wound vac therapy machine to drain it and draw the skin together. I have lost 75% of my breast volume and seeing as they ignored my requests to make me bigger and only gave me an A sized flap I hardly had anything to start with.
I am devastated as been waiting 3 years for this surgery what with covid and delayed after radiotherapy. I had high expectations that I would come out with a nice cleavage then have phase 2 to perfect it. Im now back to being flat as a pancake abd having very dark thoughts and feel stuck in the cancer loop STILL after 3 years since my diagnosis.
If this has happened to you what did you do? Way I feel I ssid to surgeon just chop it all off and give me double mastectomy as Ijust want to move on with my damn life now and am so fed up with all this hell just for a damn cleavage
