TUG Flap Reconstruction
Good Afternoon to all. I am new to all this and have been told about this forum by my breast care nurse. I was diagnosed with invasive lobular breast cancer in September and as a consequence had a b...
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Thank you both for the emails.
I will try again today to sign up, I was logged in but something unusual may of happened (computers!!) :(
Hello for the first time Cupcakes nice to speak to you. ;)
My TUG flap has not gone really well. My donor site got very infected and so did my right breast.
I have had a lot of surgery and debridement to clear the infection, which I can thankfully say we have under control
although I have been left with quite a bit of healing to do. I have had vac machines on my healing sites for 4 weeks and they have been removed just recently thank goodness! so on the improve.
I do still have the pins and needles, swelling and nerve pain in my legs, my breasts have been really quite easy to cope with when compared to the legs.
I suppose I am just really interested in whether anyone else has experienced this type of problem with the surgery.
I am seeing a physiotherapist in the New year hopefully they can help.
My daughter is getting married in 10 weeks and would I like to feel at least a bit better before then, so much to deal with at the moment, feeling quite overwhelmed.
Regards to you both and thank you again
Cafrini x
I will try again today to sign up, I was logged in but something unusual may of happened (computers!!) :(
Hello for the first time Cupcakes nice to speak to you. ;)
My TUG flap has not gone really well. My donor site got very infected and so did my right breast.
I have had a lot of surgery and debridement to clear the infection, which I can thankfully say we have under control
although I have been left with quite a bit of healing to do. I have had vac machines on my healing sites for 4 weeks and they have been removed just recently thank goodness! so on the improve.
I do still have the pins and needles, swelling and nerve pain in my legs, my breasts have been really quite easy to cope with when compared to the legs.
I suppose I am just really interested in whether anyone else has experienced this type of problem with the surgery.
I am seeing a physiotherapist in the New year hopefully they can help.
My daughter is getting married in 10 weeks and would I like to feel at least a bit better before then, so much to deal with at the moment, feeling quite overwhelmed.
Regards to you both and thank you again
Cafrini x