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46. I Looked Fine, Just Too Big. Now I Look Like a Train Wreck! - Utah
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I have always been big and i was a 36DDD and 5'3...
goatgirl69May 23, 2015
I have always been big and i was a 36DDD and 5'3.5". I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. I opted for a reduction at the time of the lumpectomy. I'm not sure why but the plastic surgeon was three hours late to my surgery. It was scheduled for 830 but he was not available until almost noon. After i woke one of the nurses came in to tell me that if i didn't like wgat he did the other doc could fix it. I wonder why. now that I'm mostly healed, i see that the skin does not fit around my nipples, it was bunched up and glued that way. Seven weeks later, the pouches caused by the folded skin continue to get infected and fill with pus. I am two very different sizes and the healthy breast is much smaller, the areola is not even round, and the entire breast oddly shaped. The doc says that the dimpling was a result of where my cancer was. Yet he did the same odd thing on the healthy side as well. I would NEVER have had this surgery had i known that THIS wad what he would do to me. And it's sad that the attitude i am getting from the clinic is that my looks no longer matter because of my small, early stage tumor. I have cancer so it doesn't matter? It matters to me. At my last visit to a different doc in the same clinic, i was told that yes, they look bad, yes they can be fixed. Bad news is that they say the insurance won't pay to repair the bad job. I look like i was in an accident. A general surgeon could have done THIS.
UPDATED FROM goatgirl69
1 month post
Poor results. i wish i had my healthy normal breast back :,(
goatgirl69May 25, 2015
Doctors put ne to shame by saying that the poor results are my own fault for choosing a breast reduction. My choice, my fault. It can be fixed they say but only if i can afford to pay them.
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May 25, 2015
the doctor seemed to not know what he was doing? so sorry u had bad results :( hopefully they smooth out for you
May 27, 2015
Not unless i pay out of pocket. That does not seem fair. Also, the fact that the second doc in same clinic said it's common for them to go back sometimes 4 or 5 times before it looks halfways decent but yet symmetry was next to impossible. I hsve lost all faith in the 5A clinic at U of U Hospital.
May 25, 2015
You having breast cancer have nothing to do with this botched breast job. Unfortunately, your surgeon lack skills at reduction. It's his fault not yours. If you get them redone, be sure to do your research on that doctor. Be blessed...
May 26, 2015
I really don't think they're bad…it's only a month out and I think they already look way better than your before pics. I hear you when you say: I see other patients who have healed way better than me at 2 or 3 weeks, but they are freaks of nature and yours will turn out just fine. Your breast skin needs a few weeks-2 months to shed the old skin cells and create new ones that adjust to your new, smaller size (the swelling goes down every day so it takes a couple months for the adjustment). Don't worry about anything yet..it is truly too early to say.
May 27, 2015
Thanks a lot for your comment on my review. I am still regularly using DMSO also being strict about taking MSM every morning I would think these things could help you too Dmso is a great idea if youve had c ancer too. Ive been though a long time to get to this point at 4 and a half months where Im settling in with my new breasts and have actually started to enjoy them. you will find you will let go and accept how they are more and they will continue to even out and heal not sure if your still having pus problems. Give it time they will change and how you feel about them will change
May 27, 2015
Im also doing dry skin brushing whole body and using my facial brush on my breasts and my skin rejuvanator derma roller (tonya zavastri)
May 28, 2015
My biggest issue is that one is nearly a D and the other less than a C. Doc Pannucci's big selling point was that i would have an easier time finding clothes to fit. I am not finding that to be true. Nothing fits, bras, cute shirts, nothing.....except baggy t-shirts.
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