Bra question

[june09bandit 0]

For the first time since surgery on June 2, I am wearing an underwire bra. It's terribly uncomfortable under the left boob. My port is in the center, so I know it's not hitting the port. I don't really know where the band itself sits.

Has anyone else had bra issues? Any solutions?

[RestlessMonkey 7]

I'd suggest NOT wearing an underwire bra for another month or so and letting everything finish healing. Just a thought. Three weeks isn't long enough for everything to be back to normal yet.

[ghannouge 0]

Well, i have my surgery the same place, for the first month i wore a bra with no wires and they would be loose ones also, and now, i wear wired bras but i dont get them so tight as when i am filled i get a tiny pain, i dont know why, its like i am irritated or something LOL!

[Sarah.R 2]

Try wearing sports bra's without wires. Should help more

[Pegsinthewoods 8]

On days when I am especially tight, I feel like my bra actually inhibits my band's ability to pass food. Like the bra adds to the restriction of the band. I'll unhook for awhile and usually those days, I have to stick to mushies. It's not everyday but I do notice it periodically. :smile2:

[ghannouge 0]

The same happens here! LOL, im soo irritated than i would want to tear off my clothes hahaah!

My friends band is on her waist left side, and she complains how lucky i am! as if she knew!

[TopTier 0]

Bras bras bras.

Intrusive, constricting, oppressive little things, aren't they? No wonder we tried to burn them all in the 60s. Obviously, we must have missed a few!

I switched to no-wire quite a few years ago. They've improved them (the no-wire) tremendously and some are actually even quite comfortable.

[kdlee 0]

I also have some pain on the left side below my breast when I wear an underwire, especially if I'm doing a lot of sitting. I try not to wear an underwire too often because of this.

[sillygrilly 0]

I wore a underwire bra the second week after the surgery when I returned to work. I ended up putting some padded gaws unter my left boob to lessen the pain. I did that for 2 days and then i was fine. It will go away.

[Jachut 487]

On days when I am especially tight, I feel like my bra actually inhibits my band's ability to pass food. Like the bra adds to the restriction of the band. I'll unhook for awhile and usually those days, I have to stick to mushies. It's not everyday but I do notice it periodically. :thumbdown:

We were talking about this in another thread a while back when someone mentioned that when she gets stuck, undoing her bra helps.

What we thought was this: I have fairly low body fat now and can see my port, but also can feel an inch or two of tubing before it disappears below the muscle. So perhaps a bra does indeed put pressure on the tubing before it goes deeper into the body in certain people and that squeezing the tubing squeezed Fluid up the tubing and around the band, making it ever so slightly tighter, thus explaining why you can feel relief from ripping off your bra. Sound feasible?

[Carriedaway78 0]

I actually got a staph infection from my softcup bra in one of my incisions! My boobs are really big, and the softcup was rubbing against the incision and I suppose bacteria got in there.

I think most people say wearing sports bras for the first month or so. If the bra touches any of the incisions, cover them up while you have the bra on.

As for the pain, I'm not sure what that could be. But I did wear an underwire bra the other day for several hours and found that it irritated me pretty bad, it kept pressing into my flesh and hurt.

[Who'sThere 331]

Oh, no! I have some pretty big tatas, and I feel totally naked without an underwire bra. For me there is SUCH a big difference. I asked my surgeon about my bra getting in the way of my port. He showed me where my port would be, and he said is shouldn't be a problem at all. I never thought about it actually bothering my band!:rolleyes2:

[Rutiglius 0]

When I wear my bra I have a harder time catching my breath! :cursing:

I went to the movies with my husband and was seriously considering slipping it off in the theater and stuffing it in my purse! If I had on a more "supportive" top, off it would have come! I didn't want to "flop" around, however!:tongue2:

[june09bandit 0]

My port is dead center, right underneath where I think my sternum is. I think the band is is that general area as well. I bought some non-underwire bras, but the support and shape they offer is not good. Hopefully I'll be back to the industrial strength LaMystere bras in a few more weeks.

I'm relieved that it's not just me. I had never heard of this problem before, so I was very surprised when I realized how much the bras hurt. Maybe my boobs will actually shrink as I lose weight, and then I won't need bras made of tire tread material!