I feel a bit like you @TonyaM I've had one off and did ask about whether it was a good idea to take the other at the same time. I was assured that it didn't need to be done. Since then, my surgeon has said that if anxiety is too much then he would take the other when I have reconstruction. However, I am completely on the fence about reconstruction (and the skin is still too tight, anyway) as the idea of having major surgery is way too hard. But I hate the bras I have to wear now and in summer, the clothes - so many things that I have picked up only to reject because the neckline is too low and I'm not talking major cleavage here. The surgeon has actually left me with a little bit of cleavage but there seems to be nothing on the market to take advantage of that. Even most bathers seem to be what grandmas used to wear when I was a kid. While I care what I look like dressed, I think the chest of the naked me just looks odd. It's lost any interest or appeal for me at all, no matter which side I'm looking at.