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One year ago today I had my double mastectomy, 5 weeks after completing chemo (Keynote 522). Just wanted to say. I

I was do scared going in, I'd never had major surgery, I was convinced I wouldn't wake up. I'd written my will a cpl of days earlier. In case I would wake up I had bought new bed sheets and several button up shirts.

My scars are still very tight and they're extremely ugly, esp on the non-cancer side. My dermatologist (MD) was appalled when she saw the scars (I was there for sth else entirely) and explained to me how they should've cut and why this can never look good ever without intervention.

Ladies and gentlemen, make sure you get a plastic surgeon for AFC, or you might just get C. I'm not flat and my chest is certainly not aesthetic. I'm not overweight.

I'm very, very grateful to be alive. But had I chosen reconstruction I would've gotten a PS. Here it's still like "Flat closure?!? Oh, so you don't want to be a true woman, then it cant matter how your chest looks."

I can ask for revision surgery but it will take a loooooong time to get it - if it even gets approved.

Getting cancer is a great sadness, Idk why they think it's ok to add insult to injury by not trying to make the scars look at least decent. I wanted a DMX because I'm BRCA1+.

So, vent over. Thank you for listening. 🩷

One year ago today I had my double mastectomy, 5 weeks after completing chemo (Keynote 522). Just wanted to say. I

I was do scared going in, I'd never had major surgery, I was convinced I wouldn't wake up. I'd written my will a cpl of days earlier. In case I would wake up I had bought new bed sheets and several button up shirts.

My scars are still very tight and they're extremely ugly, esp on the non-cancer side. My dermatologist (MD) was appalled when she saw the scars (I was there for sth else entirely) and explained to me how they should've cut and why this can never look good ever without intervention.

Ladies and gentlemen, make sure you get a plastic surgeon for AFC, or you might just get C. I'm not flat and my chest is certainly not aesthetic. I'm not overweight.

I'm very, very grateful to be alive. But had I chosen reconstruction I would've gotten a PS. Here it's still like "Flat closure?!? Oh, so you don't want to be a true woman, then it cant matter how your chest looks."

I can ask for revision surgery but it will take a loooooong time to get it - if it even gets approved.

Getting cancer is a great sadness, Idk why they think it's ok to add insult to injury by not trying to make the scars look at least decent. I wanted a DMX because I'm BRCA1+.

So, vent over. Thank you for listening. 🩷

I eas treated for stage 2 TNBC during 2025 and had a BMX a year ago (Aug 6 2025). The other day I noticed a red blister-like little thing at the sternum end of my cancer boob scar. It's normally hidden under silicon scar tape. It was a few mm in size and leaking a drop of yellowish fluid.

I didnt dare put more tape, I just cleaned the area. Today the redness is bigger, not smaller as I thought it'd be. There's some flakey skin where the blister was.

Is this sth I should contact my breast care team about you think? Should I wait? Has anyone here experienced similar? Grateful for any and all input.

The area is not painful. The scars are healed but extremely ugly, rsp the non cancer boob side. This is due to surgical ineptitude, my dermatologist (MD) has explained to me. We dont get a plastic surgeon for flat closure here.

I havent had any problems with rashes, blisters, redness etc in the area before.

So I emptied out a freezer, an old person who moved to a care home. Old food, mainly vegetables and bread, commercially packed but with frost burn. I mixed it all in layers with bokashi bran and dried mushrooms and old pasta and put it in a food grade bucket with a tight fitting lid, bc I only have 2 proper bokashi bins and I rotate them. I compressed the food scraps and now the lid is bulging and some dark brown liquid is oozing from a spot at the rim of the lid.

Was planning to store this bucket warmish (cold greenhouse, Sweden) for 2-3 weeks, then mix with soil.

Does this sound ok or is it turning into some vile form of alcohol, since clearly some type of expansion/gas formation is happening?

(It's fairly disgusting, but I don't mind as long as it will become sth that's good for my garden. My garden has heavy clay soil that smothers everything except oregano (slight exaggeration but not by much) unless I mix it with various experimental and non-experimental stuff.)

I started Ikervis 4 days ago. It's for very dry eyes post chemo-and immunotherapy. I know it's not supposed to have systemic effects and I do press my fingertips against the inner corners of my eyes after putting the drops in. But I feel so weird, and so extremely tired, which is not like me, so I thought I'd ask here if anyone else has experienced similar. Today I had so many fun plans but I just crashed in the afternoon and slept for 2 hours. Yesterday I barely made it to the gym, and I love the gym.

(I hope this is a side effect the Ikervis but it could of course be sth way worse, given my history.)

If any of you experienced sth similar, did it go away after using Ikervis for a while?

ETA: I expected bad ocular stinging and psin after application, that's not been an issue.

Has anyone here used Ikerbis for very dry eyes post chemo?

Since chemo, I've had a vision problem, esp at night. My onco referred me to the eye clinic, they determined that my eyes are very dry, both the quantity and quality of my tear fluid are very low. OTC eye drops with lipids barely help. I have been on softacort corticosteroid eye drops for six weeks, inflammation is slightly better, but not good. I can only stay on the steroid eyedrops another month, so I was prescribed Ikervis (cyclosporin). It's quite pricey, and I'm also a little afraid of it since it's a very strong immunosuppressant.

I'd be very very grateful if anyone here would be willing to share their experience with this med!

(New glasses won't help my vision since this is an inflammatory thing.)

Thank you in advance! (Edited to correct a bunch of really annoying spelling errors.)

Has anyone here used Ikerbis for very dry eyes post chemo?

Since chemo, I've had a vision problem, esp at night. My onco referred me to the eye clinic, they determined that my eyes are very dry, both the quantity and quality of my tear fluids are very low. OTC eye drops with lipids barely dorsnt help I have been on softacort corticosteroid eye drops for six weeks, inflammation id slightly better, but not good,. I can only stay on the steroud eyedrops amothrr months, so I was prescribed Ikervis (cyclosporin). It's quite pricey, and I'm also a little afraid of it since it's a very strong immunosuppressant.

I'd be very very grateful if anyone here woyld be willing to share their experience with this med!

(New glasses won't help my vision since this is an inflammatory thing.)

Thank you in advance!

as the title states. it happened yesterday. no sounds except some vague scratching that makes speech inaudible. same with the alarms, notifications, media. Is there anything I can try?