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Feeling challenged by clothes shopping?
I'd like to reach out to other women who find
it hard to buy clothes because of changes to their bodies brought
about by breast cancer. I'm almost 60 now and have lived with a mastectomy for
over 20 ...
Hi Pink Collective. The surgeons do wonderful work and am very grateful for what they have done for me, that is why I don't want to seem like a whinger.
When I had the reconstruction I did not want to go back as large as I was which was a DD cup. Not enormous but during my three years with no breasts or prosthesis I quite enjoyed being smaller. However I assume it is not an exact science and you get what you get. Being my own tissue if I put on weight so do my "breasts" and visa versa. However I thought I was getting larger and larger even though my weight was not increasing, so back to what I was.
The op was enormous and certainly took some recovering. The 'pants falling down' issue is what is most annoying now but just have to adapt.
When I had the reconstruction I did not want to go back as large as I was which was a DD cup. Not enormous but during my three years with no breasts or prosthesis I quite enjoyed being smaller. However I assume it is not an exact science and you get what you get. Being my own tissue if I put on weight so do my "breasts" and visa versa. However I thought I was getting larger and larger even though my weight was not increasing, so back to what I was.
The op was enormous and certainly took some recovering. The 'pants falling down' issue is what is most annoying now but just have to adapt.