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Implant Flipping Post-Mastectomy

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  • Witty173019
  • Created: January 29, 2025

I had a preventative bilateral mastectomy in February 2024 with immediate implant reconstruction. 4 months later, my right implant had flipped upside down leaving me with a flat right breast. I had the pocket tightened and a new implant placed 10/29/24 and it flipped again a few weeks ago. I haven't done anything either time to cause the flip, so we assume it's flipping in my sleep. Both times the doctor nor I could get it to manually flip back. Today, I was told that I am out of options since they aleady resized the pocket and after she couldn't get it to flip in the office that I should go home and try to flip it myself. If it doesn't flip in the next 3 months, I am to go back, but she stated there was nothing they could do for me so I'm not sure why I would need to go back for nothing. I assume that they would just replace the implant and cross their fingers it doesn't flip again? Anyway, is that actually true that a revision is not possible? Am I stuck with an upside down implant or repeated surgeries to swap the flipped implant as my only options?

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