Radiation
It's been 5 months since I completed right chest wall and right supraclavicular radiation. I'm post bilateral mastectomy and chemo. I was told that at around 4-5 months and/or 12 months after tre...
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Anna/Peta. I had immediate skin sparing mastectomy with implant recon.....no flap. I was about an E before surgery & the surgeon used the biggest implant he could to try & keep some symmetry. (mx side was bigger so she needed to come down a bit anyway). Radiation wasn't on the cards until about 1/2 way through chemo, so that came as a bit of a shock because I had the recon based on the fact that I wasn't likely to have rads. So my implant was radiated. Its not actually the implant thats the problem, its the muscle/scar capsule that is the problem. After rads the muscle & scar capsule slowly contracted over about 12-18 months (as your onc says)it started about six months after rads. I pushed the replacement back as far as I could to try to get to two years past rads (actually its two years today) & had the surgery nearly four weeks ago. Possibly that is why surgeon has pushed back exchanging expander so far ??( not necessarily a bad thing !) or (Anna) waiting for about two years could be a good decision too........
Happy to answer any questions if I can.
Carmel