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Great video! I really appreciate your knowledge and that you have shared your experience.

Thank you so much for these videos, I am two weeks post op from a single mastectomy and I have been following this video for the last week, it is really helping with my shoulder mobility and the dreaded cording!! I'll be following weeks 3-6 also, thank you again, your content is super helpful 🥰🥰

Hello. And thank you first and foremost from Western Australia. I am facing double mastectomy and was looking at implants but now so much talk about BII, Do you have any troubles or comments and did you get information from the start. I honest don’t know anyone with breast implants personally and we are always a few years behind the US on topics and information and I think due to smaller population. Also scared of capsular contracture, I’m trying to get better and scared I might make matters worse. I too am also very active with weight training and running and didn’t know if implants weigh more and feel cold and generally wonder if you get use to them.

Dear Erika! I have another important question, regarding something that causes me great fear! How can I prevent the radiation from damaging the heart, from causing pericarditis? I am terribly afraid of this, as well as other things, such as nerve damage and the like, but perhaps I fear heart damage the most. Did you have radiation on both sides, including the left side? Which part of your breast was the surgical incision made? Did you not develop a fever, did you not have sharp, stabbing chest pain, cough, or other symptoms that could be symptoms of pericarditis? Did you have to have an MRI to see if the radiation caused such problems? Maybe if an infection develops due to a skin burn wound, can that also cause pericarditis? It is inherently more dangerous for me, because I have an autoimmune thyroid disease. Please write what you know about this in an answer as soon as possible. Thank you very much in advance. Unfortunately, it is tomorrow, Nov. 26. I have to go to my first meeting around noon. I don't know what it will be about, I'm worried that I'll have to make a decision right away. I hope what I wrote is understandable, because unfortunately I don't speak English, I can only write with Google Translate, which doesn't translate very well.

Thank you so much for your videos! Part 1 has made so much sense for me. I ticked all the boxes but 1 for a candidate for cording. I've been doing your exercises religiously as I'm in week 3 post mastectomy with diep flap reconstruction. So helpful and grateful!

Is there a screen shot of the list like in the first video?

After 6 months of radiation on my left breast , recently I’m experiencing pain in my left rib exactly under my breast. Does anyone experience such a thing? My oncologist said it happens for some patients. But sometimes it’s unbearable.

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Both of my surgeons couldn't be bothered. I had a major infection, and they blamed one another until I had to go to the ER. No aftercare or communication. I had to find my own therapist, and she told me about my options and mastectomy bras. Thank you for offering this information!

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Hi,I had one positive lymph node 31 yrs.ago.Do the radiation techniques include the axilla area?

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I have a question for you. 3 weeks ago I got double mastectomy and tissue expanders. 3 weeks and still my sides hurt with any slight attempt to sleep on side even a little. I sleep in a recliner. Part of my prior breasts were kept for later. Did you have pain on the sides? My dr said normal but that was in the beginning. They think I should be able to sleep in bed. For fear of turning on my side I don’t. I tried pain was very bad when I accidentally went in my side. Do I have to wait for the exchange surgery to sleep in bed again!

Thank you! What would you suggest I should do if I just started to feel cording after only 12 days post op :(

I’m trying this twice a week; if the 8lb weight is getting heavy I carry the load in front then switch back. Using a treadmill on incline 3.5 speed

I’ve finished my chemotherapy cycles, going to have surgery next week and possibly radiation afterwards , dependent upon the pathology results. Thank you so much for sharing your experience🙏🤗

This is super helpful. I didn’t even think of this one.

It’s really frustrating because I had a lumpectomy and radiation treatment for DCIS. If I had known more about radiation fibrosis, I may have decided to do a mastectomy instead (in which case I would not have needed radiation).

Very helpful. Thank you.

I watched and have been doing the routines from your other video on self lymphatic massage routine for breast. On this video you discussed deeper massage for the hardened tissue from radiation. Is it okay to do this type of pressure massage over clothing or should it only be done on skin, like is suggested in the other turtorial I referenced. Thank you for this video. And for your time educating us.

hello i just wanted to say that thank you for this educational content of yours

Do you have HIRT excercises for those BC thrivers on AI%.?

Thank you for this info. Just what I’ve been looking for!

Thank you for this video my cording flared up 6 years after surgery while lifting weights. Weird. Not going to stop training but will try these methods and hopefully get rid of the annoying pain!

Very helpful and relevant thanks

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Very helpful

Thank you for sharing. I am stage 2a, 1.2cm IDC and 1 out of 5 positive SLNs, oncotyping score of 17. I go into my oncologist in a few days. I don’t want radiation bc I thought that meant I could not have an implant on the radiated side. This video gives me hope that I can. I had a DMX/SLN bx 3 weeks ago with tissue expanders and alloderm placed at the time of the DMX. I am not sure if I will need chemo or not. Radiation scares me so much. I already have cording on the cancer side post SLNB and it’s painful. I will be cleared for PT on Monday.

Thank you, I downloaded the Stretching Guide! By the way, have you done any weight training as part of your maintenance program? I’m 69 yrs old, had my DMX on 30 Jan 2024. I’m asking because I noticed that my boobs hid any weight gained, and now since my DMX, I noticed that I have a little belly! Additionally, I take Anastrozole (Arimidex), which is known to increase blood pressure, and weight gain, so I started intermittent fasting, along with DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) to counter both blood pressure and weight gain. Nevertheless, I still want to increase my chest muscles and abdominal muscles because I don’t want to always have to wear protheses. Anyway, your thoughts would be appreciated! Thank you, Scipia

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