You’d think I’d have learned by now that the trauma of surgery always burns off my estrogen faster than normal. I’m post-menopausal (hysterectomy) and so I use a bioidentical estrogen patch to provide what my ovaries used to.
I have found that normally I can be fine with just 1/2 patch sometimes for as much as [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Five days post-reconstruction
Posted in Cancer, tagged breast cancer, breast reconstruction, estrogen, hot flashes, nipple reconstruction, surgery on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Breast reconstruction done
Posted in Cancer, tagged breast cancer, mastectomy reconstruction, nipple reconstruction, reconstruction on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday morning (Friday, 11/21/08) I went in for my (hopefully) final reconstructive surgery. The doc replaced the saline expander with a silicone implant, revised the mastectomy scar and installed a small silicone implant in the normal breast.
I had almost no stress or anxiety going into this surgery so I was really surprised that my BP was [...]
Broken Record / Songs Stuck in Your Head – Part 2
Posted in Health & Hormones, Mental health, tagged Broken record, songs stuck in your head, music stuck in your head, ear worm, musical hallucinations on November 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
There has been a relative flurry of responses (3 within two months) to my previous post on the subject of music stuck in your head http://hormoneguru.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/songs-stuck-in-your-head-broken-record-syndrome-part-1/.
A year ago I knew of only one other person with this condition. Now I know of at least 12. And 5 of them have been willing to talk with me, providing [...]
20 Days to Final Reconstructive Surgery
Posted in Cancer, Health & Hormones, tagged breast cancer, DCIS, implant, mastectomy, reconstruction on November 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, let’s see what’s gone on since I last posted…
The doc filled up my expander another 50cc (total of 500 cc) and I haven’t had any discomfort since. He thought that fill would probably be enough, but last week I expressed my concerns about how much skin we’ll lose in revising the scar, tailoring the shape of the [...]
