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Breast Reconstruction with Wound Healing Issues - Stanford, CA
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I am brca2 positive. After 4 years of biannual...
carttinaAugust 30, 2016
I am brca2 positive. After 4 years of biannual surveillance I decided to undergo a bilateral nipple sparing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction. The surgery is tough! You cannot be prepared for the pain you will have. I am a nurse and I wasn't prepared! I spent 5 days in the hospital and the next 2 weeks hardly able to walk and cares for by my mother and husband. I also developed wounds fairly quickly and knew things were not right. It looks like too much tissue was removed during the mastectomy/skin manipulated by the breast surgeon and then the plastic surgeon pulled things much too tight. It wa a 14 hour surgery! Complications do happen so when I lost a good portion of skin on my left breast, I had to pick myself and move on. The revision dos not result in expected results either. I think due to what was done in the revision surgery but not cleaning up edges before seeing them together. I was supposed to get a wound vac and skin graft but my PS changed her mind and decided to just stitch it up. Now I am having another surgery for a skin graft with a second surgeon!
UPDATED FROM carttina
2 months post
Skin grafts
carttinaSeptember 2, 2016
I had skin grafts from my hips taken to close up the wounds on 8/31. My new surgeon recommended moving forward and not waiting and that a wound culture on open wounds could grow anything: so I went for it with the hopes that I can move on from this ordeal !
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September 5, 2016
Do you have grounds for a lawsuit? I think I'd be talking to a lawyer.
September 7, 2016
It's hard because you sign a consent and everything that happened is a potential complication. i think my first surgeon could have responded better in her treatment plan.
November 21, 2016
Bless your heart! I'm so sorry for all your complications!! I was scheduled on November 23rd to have the DIEP flap procedure by Dr's. Sumeet Teotia and Nicholas Haddock in Dallas following a double mastectomy in 2014, but found out last Tuesday that the breast cancer that was in remission has metastasized to my liver with tumors "too numerous to count!" I'm hoping I can find some Prothesis that will allow me to wear a v-neck something I was so looking forward to! I'm very disappointed to say the least! I wish you the best in your recovery! God bless!
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I am so sorry, I had a similar situation and this was in June of 2013. I am still under the care of a plastic surgeon trying to get some kind of "normal" result. She told me that with a skin-sparing, nipple-sparing mastectomy (which is what I had, also) that it is hard to deal with. I had immediate tissue expanders put in after the mastectomy. One month later, I had infection, and one was removed. Then three months later the remaining tissue expander broke, and deflated, so it was removed. Now I have gone under two more revisions and am still so unhappy with the results. I hope to follow your progress and see good results for you.
Madelaine.
Stay strong sister.