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here was my perspective - just my thought process on why I did both:
1. my breasts were extremely dense and hard to image - I asked about MRI's and they said "maybe" and only once a year. I live in Canada so im sure public healthcare had something to do with it. I know my cancer grew very quickly so if something else was going on in my good breast I wasn't confident that it could be caught early
2. im young - so being young can be a deciding factor for or against removing the healthy breast - I have a long time to get another bc but on the other hand it would be nice to have sensation on one side - its shitty enough that being slammed into menopause makes my sex drive zilch but having no boobs is just insult to injury
3. I really don't trust stats anymore. When I was first diagnosed I was told repeatedly that they didn't think based on my risk factors and age it was cancer. I had a 1.5% chance of getting bc at 42 with no risk factors (other than dense breasts which I found out after)- well lo and behold I was that 1.5%. That's just me

Remember if you are doing DIEP you can only do it once - that said there are days like I said above when I wished I had kept one just for sensation but it is what it is
good luck I know its a tough decision to make