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Hi<

I am brand new to this site! I have to have my ICD repositioned soon..... it is under my pectoral muscle and continually moves and puts pressure on the wires! And, it is painful. :( My doctor who is very well experienced wants to reloctate it under my breast with a possible breast impant over it beacause I am so tiny. I am 38 and am not having more children. Apparently it will be much more secure there. Has anyone ever heard of this??????? I would LOVE feedbacck!!!!!


xoxo mols

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works well for me

by Tracey_E - 2009-06-17 07:06:57

Mine is under (behind, not beneath) the breast and I really love it. I don't get any discomfort from it. The only time I even know it's there is when I'm pms, it doesn't hurt but is more of an awareness. I had two babies with it there, nursed them both. Mammograms haven't been a problem either.

Wear a button down top to the hospital, you won't be stretching that left side any time soon. I wore loose tops I didn't have to pull over my head for about the first week, then I wore the tank tops with the built in shelf bras. It was a good 6-8 weeks before I was comfortable in a regular bra again. I've had several replacements now and healing is much faster than the first time. It's not that painful, I never took more than Tylenol, but the soreness does drag on a bit.

I found the most comfortable way to sleep was hugging a pillow to my chest with my left arm. Kept me from rolling on the sore side, and sometimes the weight of the breast kind of pulls on the incision at night so the pillow kind of anchors things in place, if that makes sense.

Are you considering the implant because it's what you want or to hide the pm? You should be able to hide it without it (but if you want it, go for it!). I'm small boned and when I got my first pm I was very underweight, and we didn't have any trouble burying it so it was both comfortable and inconspicuous. They put it in from the side, the scar is about where the underwire of my bra hits.

If you want to know more specifics, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have!

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by ela-girl - 2009-06-17 12:06:39

My pm is also under the muscle and behind/into my breast in its own little pocket and sewed down. You can't see it at all. And I am a tiny little thing!! And I will say that I only really notice it while PMS-ing, too. Like TraceyE, it's not so much of a pain as it is a heaviness/awareness of it because my breasts get enlarged.

I agree with the button down shirt advice and such. I, too, slept with a lot of pillows to get propped up comfortably. I never needed any pain meds either and when my pm area was tender in the weeks after surgery, I used ice on it to soothe it--works great!

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