Hi Everyone, I was diagnosed on 7th March with 1x IDC and 2 DCIS and told I’d need mastectomy due to multiple cancers.
Had unilateral mastectomy on left breast on April 5thincluding an LD flap immediate reconstruction, but totally my own skin and muscle, I knew I didn’t want implants of any variety.
Surgery was approx 6 hrs plus recovery room.
i got back to ward about 9 pm and I’m not going to say there wasn’t pain because there was a lot.
i had 3 drains in one of which was in for 3 weeks and that’s the one that was in my back where the muscle for my new breast came from.
When I looked at my chest there wasn’t a dressing or bandage to be seen just a very nice if swollen shaped breast with what looked like a petal shaped island.
the breast has no pain as nerves not reconnected yet but under my arm and the cut from spine to underarm was extreamly painful but I got some great painkillers of which I’m still on.
i spent 11 days in hospital in total and have been home two and half weeks.
if anybody wants any information on immediate LD flap without implants please feel free to message me .
post surgery pathology came back as not three cancers it was one large at 55mm that had started to invade
but lymph nodes clear thankgod.
