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I just had a bilateral mastectomy and expanders put in a week ago today 12/17/2014. I have not had a easy time of this. I had already had large breast implants that both my surgeons assured me of an easier less painful recovery due to already stretching the muscle out. Come to find out the muscle was torn on one side and pushed so high on the other that both implants were just pushing up against the skin. So this is causing severe pain with the expanders in the muscle that had to have a biologic flap placed to grow an artifical muscle. But also caused my skin to be so thin, the skin is not doing well on the survival side. I am very fortunate to have an a VERY AGGRESSIVE plastic surgeon, who sent me the day after my surgery to immediately starte "Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber " treatments. I am having to do 2 a day for up to 40 treatments. I encourage anyone who is having ANY wound healing issues to look in to it, ask your plastic surgeon, general surgeon, etc. There are treatments to heal the skin by pressing concentrated oxygen in to your body. And while it looks like I am still possibly going to have to under go another surgery to remove a small portion of skin that just cant survive, its much better than the alternative. Its such an inconvience and has been hard on my family especially with Christmas coming, but if this saves my skin and helps me have to out come I am seeking it will be worth it.

December 17, 2014 - 11:24am

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