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go to Carol Wright Gifts at www.carolwrightgifts.com and look for comfort stretch leisure bra. They cost $7.99 plus s & H

These soft bras can be found elsewhere and are also called sleep bras.

I highly recommend that you invest in a couple.

At the hospital, the nurses insisted/told me to go to walmart and buy an exercise bra but I already had the soft leisure bra and used that. These are made of soft lycra spandex, hook in the front and are very comfy. I still use them a lot unless I need to be dressed up. You might want to get the next size up til you are healed and by then you'll probably be hooked :p on them.

Bonnie is away but if she were here, she'd tell you she uses camisoles all the time and won't look a bra in the face anymore.
 
I wore only baggy shirts, with double pockets in front, for six or eight weeks following my surgery. I am closing in on three years post-op now and I still can't wear under-wire anymore. It's too uncomfortable. But I had a dislocated rib from the surgery, which still "zings" now and then, so that may be part of the trouble there.
 
Underwired bras

Underwired bras

In reference to "I am closing in on three years post-op now and I still can't wear under-wire anymore.", I was told many years ago by a surgeon NOT to wear underwired bras. I was winding an electrical cable onto the 'wheel' we kept it on and this meant vigorous movement of my right arm, a vein got squashed between my ribs and the undewire and caused thrombophlebitis, Mondor's Disease, very painful. At first because of the dimpling it caused in the side of my breast, it was thought that I had cancer of the breast which was in the lymphatic system - hence the visit to the surgeon. My x-ray request form for spinal x-rays (I get a lot of backache) said 'Query secondaries'. I now only wear soft bras, one episode of that painful condition was enough for me.
 
I guess this really is one occasion where it's helpful to be VERY flat-chested. I'm 25 and really should still be wearing training bras. *sigh* So I didn't have a problem going braless for awhile afterwards, or just wearing tank-tops underneath. It's been a year now since my OHS and I still find bras very uncomfortable. It's a little painful to wear anything against my sternal wires. I wear alot of those camis with built-in bras underneath everything now. That's my only suggestion. :)

Liza
 
Hi,
I was given a piece of foam by my nurse to put in the centre part of my bras ofter the op. I remember first wearing a bra all day long with this foam about 4 weeks after the op and feeling so proud of my self. But it didnt last long and I went back to lace camis as they were soft. I am not very big (a-b cup) so not having alot of support wasnt a problem. I am 3 1/2 yrs post op now and i still cant wear underwire bras for to long at one time, I get very tender where the wire sits on my chest. I guess its just something thst us girls have to deal with!!! :p :p
 
It's 2 weeks since my op and as I'm pretty well endowed, I wore a soft/sleep bra from about the second day. I would have been in agony without it I'm sure - every movement pulls. I've had very little weeping from the incision and my "bullet holes" barely notice since the stitches came out day 4 and have given me no problem at all. But I still felt as though I needed something more substantial to hold me fairly rigid, so since getting home I've progressed to normal bras with rolled-up bits of sterilised wadding shoved under the band at the front and between my breasts (what a delightful image). I'm getting a lot of discomfort/pain in the skin and muscles right across my chest - my skin feels as though I've burnt myself badly and I have thumb-nail-size areas of extreme stabbing pain every now and again. I've toyed with the idea of binding myself around with bandages or something to try and keep my breasts completely non-mobile!!!
 
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