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This is most likely leftover fatty tissue. Your doctor can try to reduce the size of this area with liposuction.
It is difficult to know for sure based upon your picture, but bulges lateral to the expander after mastectomy may represent fluid, a partially inflated expander or subcutaneous tissue ('back fat"). Fluid will resolve with time, as will many "lumps and bumps" related to the surgery, the expander will be replaced by a permanent implant and at that time, if still present, liposuction of the bulge if it is subcutaneous tissue exaggerated by removing the breast, can be smoothed away for a softer, more natural contour. Give yourself more time. Good luck and Take care.
...an important question:Did you have a tissue expander placed?If you did, the fluid placed inside it will take the path of least resistance and force the expander to take an awkward shape until enough fluid has been added to start forcing the expander out away from your chest wall. It's not abnormal for things to look really weird at first. Give it some time and it should work out well.
Three months is quite a long time to be draining continuously. Has your doctor checked for hidden infections? Has the fluid been adequately evacuated or is there always fluid sloshing around? Until the tissue surfaces can adhere to one another, they will keep leaking and re-filling the seroma...
You are right! Your menstrural cycle should not have any effect on MRI results following a bilateral mastectomy. Just have the test whenever it is convenient for your schedule.
Some surgeons feel the blood supply to the nipple is strengthened if some of the tissue under the nipple is removed a few days/weeks before the actual Mastectomy. This is somewhat controversial as even when a nipple delay is performed, some surgeons still see their patients' nipples have poor...
