SURVIVING 2 SURGERIES: THE DANGERS OF MULTIPLE SURGERIES ON THE BREAST

Our breast tissue is extremely tender. We know this because of all the times we have been hit in the breasts. And let’s not forget all the times we gave each other titty twisters… UGH, stupid stuff we did as kids growing up!

Breasts consist of lobules, ducts, and fatty and fibrous connective tissue. Look how intricate the female breast is… it’s just not fat and a nipple. Now… think about being cut and going through the structure of the breast.

Surgery On The Breast

Cutting into the breasts, they go through arteries, veins, flesh, and nerves. Some women lose sensation in their nipples after breast augmentation, which I know I did for a short period of time.

As I went in for a consultation, this time to have my implants removed and this would be surgery #3 and the surgeon told me that she was very hesitant to do another surgery on my breasts because of the complications. I was shocked. I remember thinking don’t you just cut in the same area I was cut on before, go in and pull them out. Little did I know!

Complications of Breast Surgeries

She talked about the loss of blood to the breasts that won’t recover after multiple surgeries. We all know that surgery alone comes with high risks. Cutting into the breasts, yet again, can cause more extensive internal scarring which can be related to lumps and tumors, calcium deposits, thinning of overlying tissue, inability to breastfeed, fluid collection, and damage to the nerves, veins, and arteries

Scary enough, blood loss in the regions does not completely return. Every time you are cut open, you lose blood in that region and it doesn’t always return.

This sounds like a lot of trauma to your breasts!

Trauma To Our Breasts

In the historical literature, Breast Cancer and the Language of Risk, physicians reposted injury induces breast cancer. They state that if your breasts are injured or bruised an immune reaction of cellular proliferation happens.

What this means is that you have a number of cells and then cell loss to your body… they die, which then there becomes an immune response. And if our immune system is already a mess, who knows what will happen or not happen.

Injury May Be Cancer-Causing

Doctors (in the literature mentioned above), stated that breast cancer cases (at the turn of the century), were mainly injury-induced.

Now don’t get me wrong… I’m not saying that the more surgeries you get on your breasts this will cause cancer.

Think about it. When you have implants initially placed in your body, you then have to have them redone. THEN eventually have to cut yourself back open again and remove them. Ugh… You are opening yourself to the likelihood of ALL these possibilities!

Jasen, P. Breast cancer and the language of risk 1750-1950. Social History of Medicine 2002; 15: 17-43