@sue417 - Understand. It may have been a shock to actually notice your now smaller and flatter breast. This sort of shock happens to most of us, in one way or another. Because even though we "expect" that the breast will not look as it did before the surgery, we are VERY surprised by what we see. This even happens when you have "reconstruction" right away. You are still going to see "different-looking breasts".

I had immediate reconstruction, so when I woke up from anesthesia, the cancer was gone, and both my breasts looked smaller but nice. Yet, it was still shocking to see those "different" breasts, in spite of the fact I liked them.

Another aspect of breast surgery is that there are many tiny nerves that are cut. This means that you may lose some, or all of the sensations you had, both in the nipple and the skin of the breast. In time, some of it comes back, but not always. In my case, most of the sensations came back, in time.

HUGS!

D.