BREAST CANCER: POST-SURGERY
Vitamin E cream or the gel from vitamin E capsules may be applied on your scars as they start to heal. You could also try aloe vera (either pure gel or straight from the leaf of an aloe plant).
Be easy on yourself as you recover from surgery. Remember that you are healing both physically and emotionally.
If you have had reconstruction, your plastic surgeon will give you detailed instructions about what you can and cannot do. Anticipate many weeks of some restrictions on your physical activity.
If you have had a less major surgery, you will still have some limits imposed on your activity. Do not try to be a superwoman and do too much too soon. You will hurt yourself and slow down your recovery. This is still the hardest time psychologically, and that difficulty is now compounded by the real physical changes you have experienced. You are well on your way to the time when it will seem a little easier, but do not expect to be there until you have made all of your treatment decisions and have embarked on whatever will come next.
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