Hi everyone, this is my first post on this website so I apologise in advance if I get any of the slangs/acronyms wrong (still trying to understand what they all mean
So....a little about me.
I got diagnosed with breast cancer about four years ago just after my 27th birthday. Needless to say everything has changed since then! I had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy all in the year of my diagnosis (I got diagnosed in January 2010). Once I was done with the radiotherapy, I was put on Tamoxifen to control the hormones in my body as the cancer I had was hormone positive.
In the time between completing my treatment and now, I have met and married the most amazing husband and done a genetic testing. The test came back and I am BRCA2 positive
We decided to have the second breast removed and try to reconstruct both breasts at the same time. I had the surgery in October and it went very well. However, I didn't realise exactly how long the procedure was going to take from start to finish! I won't bore you with too much details but just in case anyone knows about breast reconstructive surgery, I've got tissue expanders (TE) in at the moment and will need to have a few fills before I can swap the TEs for implants.
In summary, I have two options:
1. TTC now and leave the tissue expander in for longer - probably till after the pregnancy if I get lucky and get pregnant soon (although I still need to convince DH to go with this option
2. Wait till the procedure is complete since I can't have an elective surgery while pregnant. The problem with that is that the procedure won't be complete till mid next year or longer and I am not keen to wait till that long
Some additional info, I will be 31 in Jan and DH is 35 - so I am very keen for us to start trying now. I have been off Tamoxifen for about 10 weeks now so I think it is safe to start trying although DH would prefer we wait till the end of the procedure next year.
I was just wondering if anyone was going through anything similar and had any thoughts on comments. (Apologies for the long post :wink wink
So....a little about me.
I got diagnosed with breast cancer about four years ago just after my 27th birthday. Needless to say everything has changed since then! I had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy all in the year of my diagnosis (I got diagnosed in January 2010). Once I was done with the radiotherapy, I was put on Tamoxifen to control the hormones in my body as the cancer I had was hormone positive.
In the time between completing my treatment and now, I have met and married the most amazing husband and done a genetic testing. The test came back and I am BRCA2 positive
We decided to have the second breast removed and try to reconstruct both breasts at the same time. I had the surgery in October and it went very well. However, I didn't realise exactly how long the procedure was going to take from start to finish! I won't bore you with too much details but just in case anyone knows about breast reconstructive surgery, I've got tissue expanders (TE) in at the moment and will need to have a few fills before I can swap the TEs for implants.
In summary, I have two options:
1. TTC now and leave the tissue expander in for longer - probably till after the pregnancy if I get lucky and get pregnant soon (although I still need to convince DH to go with this option
2. Wait till the procedure is complete since I can't have an elective surgery while pregnant. The problem with that is that the procedure won't be complete till mid next year or longer and I am not keen to wait till that long
Some additional info, I will be 31 in Jan and DH is 35 - so I am very keen for us to start trying now. I have been off Tamoxifen for about 10 weeks now so I think it is safe to start trying although DH would prefer we wait till the end of the procedure next year.
I was just wondering if anyone was going through anything similar and had any thoughts on comments. (Apologies for the long post :wink wink
