If you've had a mastectomy and get plastic surgery can you?

Question

still breast feed or have feeling in your breasts.

Answer 1

A very radical mastectomy means that most or all the tissue and glands from that breast were removed. Which means there's nothing in there to produce milk. Although sometimes mastectomies can be partial, but still it means tissue and glands removal, which definitely affects nipple sensitivity.

Implants, not as a reconstructive means after mastectomy, but just as a cosmetic procedure often cause sensitivity loss, but depending on the way they're inserted, over or below the muscle, can allow breastfeeding. All cases are individual, and it's always best to consult a physician.

Answer 2

Ok....I'm assuming you haven't had bilateral mastectomy or the answer would be obvious. However, the answer does depend on a clarification of your question. You say you've had "plastic surgery"... My question is, "what kind of plastic surgery have you had?" This makes a huge difference in my answer. Was it on your unaffected breast? Or was the plastic surgery a reconstruction of your removed breast? If you've had no surgery on one breast, then you should be able to breastfeed just fine. If you have had implants in it, again, you should be able to breastfeed. However, if you HAVE had surgery on the "good" breast, you may or may not, depending on what kind of "plastic surgery" you have had. My suggestion: Contact your surgeon. He WILL be able to give you a correct answer.

Point of clarification. If you HAVE had a total mastectomy on both breasts, and the plastic surgery was of the reconstructive sort, then no, you cannot breastfeed, because your milk glands and milk producing tissue was removed during the mastectomy. You will/should have some feeling in the skin of the newly reconstructed breasts, as they typically do a skin grafting from viable skin from other parts of your body. Don't expect it to be totally normal feeling initially, however. You may only feel pressure, or just tingling, but it should improve.

Answer 3

I would assume breastfeeding would be out of the question since I think mastectomies remove all the breast tissue required to produce breast milk. With any surgery it will leave scar tissue (some is inside where you can see it in this case) so you might have feeling left but obviously with any surgery it's never the same amount of feeling as before. Sensitivity to touch is affected.

Answer 4

Yes, you will still have feeling and be able to breast feed. I recommend a book which will help you out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ULTIMATE-GUIDE-TO-PLASTIC-SURGERY-ABROAD-2006-EDITION_W0QQitemZ270032540267QQihZ017QQcategoryZ47103QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem