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IrvineFriend · 01-17-2013, 04:35 PM

I'm now > 4 weeks post-mastectomy and still have a drain in. It was 30 cc's between yesterday and today. She won't remove it until it's < 25 cc. Onc won't start chemo until all drains are removed + 1 week to heal. I want to get my chemo going and it seems like I'm never going to be able to start. I'm not a big person, so it's not like I have a lot of tissue to drain from or anything.

Frustrated as I hate to think of this cancer being able to do it's thing w/o any treatment going on to stop it.

BTW, I accidently partially pulled a drain out awhile back from my other breast while dressing (stepping into PJ's) and yesterday she aspirated 120 cc after 5-days from that breast before doing a 60 cc fill so clearly I'm a heavy fluid producer. I call that breast my "water bed boob"! By appt time I can hear it "sloshing" when I walk!

01-17-2013, 04:35 PM	#1
IrvineFriend Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Irvine, CA (Southern CA) Posts: 414	What was your PS/surgeons fluid limit to remove your drain(s)? I'm now > 4 weeks post-mastectomy and still have a drain in. It was 30 cc's between yesterday and today. She won't remove it until it's < 25 cc. Onc won't start chemo until all drains are removed + 1 week to heal. I want to get my chemo going and it seems like I'm never going to be able to start. I'm not a big person, so it's not like I have a lot of tissue to drain from or anything. Frustrated as I hate to think of this cancer being able to do it's thing w/o any treatment going on to stop it. BTW, I accidently partially pulled a drain out awhile back from my other breast while dressing (stepping into PJ's) and yesterday she aspirated 120 cc after 5-days from that breast before doing a 60 cc fill so clearly I'm a heavy fluid producer. I call that breast my "water bed boob"! By appt time I can hear it "sloshing" when I walk! __________________ Julie Live in Orange County, CA Diagnosed with DCIS Oct. 2012 Bilateral Dec. 19, 2012 IDC, ER/PR-, Her2+++, Grade 3 Stage IIIa 15.6 cm 4/14 nodes + macrometastases First thing each morning, I try on my bathing suit. Then, nothing worse can happen the rest of the day.