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Subject: fluid after mastectomy, prosthesis
Date: 04/20/2008
I had a simple mastectomy 3/13. About three weeks afterward I had fluid swelling so they drained about 200cc fluid. The fluid has started collecting again. I want to get fitted for my prostesis but I know they can't get a good fir with swelling. Should I get it drained again? Or just wait for it to go away(I am getting impatient.Also any good suggestions for silicone prosthesises. I am even hunting on E-bay, I have a tlc catalog from the American Cancer Society.
Subject: RE: fluid after mastectomy, prosthesis
Date: 04/20/2008
The swelling is not in my arm but beneath my scar.It bounces. I know that sounds weird but I feel like I have fluid waves under my skin. And further about breast forms, what about latex versus silicon, and suggestions?
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Subject: RE: fluid after mastectomy, prosthesis
Date: 04/20/2008
Is it brown stuff? I had fluid under the scar after a lumpectomy (benign) which leaked out the stitches. Seems it's some kind of fat necrosis or something. I used ultrathin maxi-pads cut to size over sterile gauze, taped on with surgical tape.
Subject: RE: fluid after mastectomy, prosthesis
Date: 04/20/2008
When they drained it, it was straw colored, serosangous which means just normal drainage(like the fluid that was in the Jackson-Pratt drains, did you have to have them?) so I don't think it is fat or necrosis or anything. My incision has completely healed so it isn't leaking.
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Subject: RE: fluid after mastectomy, prosthesis
Date: 04/21/2008

I didn't have any special drains or anything, I guess because it was just a lumpectomy and I'm kind of a large person. Because it all leaked out, I didn't have to go to the doctor.

For what it's worth, though, if the doctors have told you what it is and it's normal, that's one thing you don't have to worry about...

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