DIEP undecided double mastectomy

Hi Julia                                                                                                                  Thanks for your reply. I saw my surgeon today and she told me that my pathology and lymph node was clear.  I will need nil further treatment. She told me I had a 10% chance that I may get cancer in the left breast and that it would be purely a personal preference to whether I wanted a prophylactic mastectomy.  She told me a MRI on the remaining breast at would not be beneficial and there was also the risk of having a false positive result. As everything had moved so fast for me in the beginning, I was total mess and didn't think I  would be able to cope psychologically as I  would always be worried that further cancer would go undetected.   I am only now coming to terms with my diagnosis. As I am still ambivalent about a prophylactic mastectomy,  and the thought of having pain in both breast at the same time following reconstruction, I have decided not to go ahead with it.  Just being able to express my thoughts and insecurities and hearing about other ladies' journey has been good for me in helping to come to a decision. Thanks once again for your input. Ro.