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Hi girls! Firstly, huge thanks to all you...
Hi girls!
Firstly, huge thanks to all you beautiful warriors that not only fight against society to remove their implants and be happy, but show the process just to help others going through the same, like me.
Bit of a long story, but here goes...
Pre-Op
At 13yo my breasts developed too fast and since my skin is very stretchy, my breasts were completely flaccid and dropped, so at 15 my parents took me to a plastic surgeon to fix that, but we made a wrong choice. I explained to the doctor that I wanted just a regular young girl's breasts and asked her to make my areola smaller since the skin stretch also stretched the areola a LOT. She said she'd have to remove too much skin and I'd end up completely flat so the ONLY resource was to have implants. Nor me nor my parents had any experience with that kind of thing, so we believed her and left it up to her to decide what size would be best. She convinced us to use a national company for the implants, SILIMED and went for the 235ml, which for me, being 1,56cm (about 5,1') and 15, ended up looking quite vulgar (imo). But I was too young to think about that. What the doctor told me: the implants would go under the muscle (pretty much her choice), she'd do an L shaped incision (cause of reasons), and there'd have to be a second surgery to repair the scarring.
The surgeries
On december 2004 I had my first surgery. It all went apparently well. After a couple months the swelling went down and my breasts looked how they were gonna look, which wasn't age appropriate imo, but I was happy at the time. Around july 2005 I had my second surgery, supposedly to fix the scarring, and then the doctor said she'd remove some more skin and more of the areola cause my skin had already stretched it again. None of the surgeries had the L shaped incision, she never explained why, or why she wanted it in the first place.
Capsular Contracture
Beginning of 2007, I felt a lump on my left breast and the next day went to the doctor. She said that was a capsular contracture and gave me a corticosteroid based medicine. No explanations of what it was, how long to take the medicine, was it gonna fix it, nothing. Obviously the medicine didn't work, and it also messed up with my body quite hard cause I already have a hormonal problem. It took years to go back to normal. We went to another doctor who said no medicine would fix CC and that my implants were OVER the muscle. Never, not once, did she bother telling me that after two surgeries and several consultations. She also didn't tell me the complications the implant under the muscle could have, how it could migrate and all that stuff. She didn't really give me any negatives, actually. She never even mentioned I'd eventually have to replace the implants, also found out about that with the new doctor (again, I was too young to care and my parents are kinda... obtuse). Another thing, SILIMED implants turned out to have the highest numbers of CC cases in the country, and she specifically recommended me that brand while bad mouthing the other ones. How can that doctor be allowed to practice medicine is a mystery to me.
Decisions
After knowing about the complications of the CC I spent a lot of time in doctors' offices. I was terrified of choosing a bad doctor again. I spent a few years just delaying the inevitable till finally, in 2012, I decided to remove instead of replacing them. Thing is, most plastic surgeons don't want or don't know how to do it.. So every consultation was "you shouldn't do it", "I won't perform the surgery", "you'll look awful", "your breasts will look like deflated balloons", "nothing I can do". One certain (quite renowned) doctor wanted to charge me about 30g cause he said if I didn't do lifting, mastopexy and a specific and difficult technique that only a few doctor could do, my boobs would look atrocious, and even after all that they'd still be flat and ugly. Not exaggerating, that was his prognosis. I believed him and felt awful. I could live with the ugly non-breasts, but I didn't have that kind of $! But recently I found this page that gave me hope again cause I've seen a lot of women who didn't need six types of surgeries to have, not only normal looking breasts, but CUTE looking breasts!! Awesome! I'm done with implants! In june/july they need to be out \o/!!!
HELP/ADVICES: Now, for the real reason I'm here. I wanna know from other women who had explants, how was it, did you just have them removed? Did you have to have any other procedures, like mastopexy, lifting, fat transfer, etc? What about you girls with CC? How did your explants go? Are you all happy with your decision? Anyone from Brazil can recommend me a doctor? Alguém do Brasil que possa me recomendar um médico que não vá tentar me covencer a recolocar o silicone?
I'm really sorry for the really huge story, and thank you for being so brave!
Firstly, huge thanks to all you beautiful warriors that not only fight against society to remove their implants and be happy, but show the process just to help others going through the same, like me.
Bit of a long story, but here goes...
Pre-Op
At 13yo my breasts developed too fast and since my skin is very stretchy, my breasts were completely flaccid and dropped, so at 15 my parents took me to a plastic surgeon to fix that, but we made a wrong choice. I explained to the doctor that I wanted just a regular young girl's breasts and asked her to make my areola smaller since the skin stretch also stretched the areola a LOT. She said she'd have to remove too much skin and I'd end up completely flat so the ONLY resource was to have implants. Nor me nor my parents had any experience with that kind of thing, so we believed her and left it up to her to decide what size would be best. She convinced us to use a national company for the implants, SILIMED and went for the 235ml, which for me, being 1,56cm (about 5,1') and 15, ended up looking quite vulgar (imo). But I was too young to think about that. What the doctor told me: the implants would go under the muscle (pretty much her choice), she'd do an L shaped incision (cause of reasons), and there'd have to be a second surgery to repair the scarring.
The surgeries
On december 2004 I had my first surgery. It all went apparently well. After a couple months the swelling went down and my breasts looked how they were gonna look, which wasn't age appropriate imo, but I was happy at the time. Around july 2005 I had my second surgery, supposedly to fix the scarring, and then the doctor said she'd remove some more skin and more of the areola cause my skin had already stretched it again. None of the surgeries had the L shaped incision, she never explained why, or why she wanted it in the first place.
Capsular Contracture
Beginning of 2007, I felt a lump on my left breast and the next day went to the doctor. She said that was a capsular contracture and gave me a corticosteroid based medicine. No explanations of what it was, how long to take the medicine, was it gonna fix it, nothing. Obviously the medicine didn't work, and it also messed up with my body quite hard cause I already have a hormonal problem. It took years to go back to normal. We went to another doctor who said no medicine would fix CC and that my implants were OVER the muscle. Never, not once, did she bother telling me that after two surgeries and several consultations. She also didn't tell me the complications the implant under the muscle could have, how it could migrate and all that stuff. She didn't really give me any negatives, actually. She never even mentioned I'd eventually have to replace the implants, also found out about that with the new doctor (again, I was too young to care and my parents are kinda... obtuse). Another thing, SILIMED implants turned out to have the highest numbers of CC cases in the country, and she specifically recommended me that brand while bad mouthing the other ones. How can that doctor be allowed to practice medicine is a mystery to me.
Decisions
After knowing about the complications of the CC I spent a lot of time in doctors' offices. I was terrified of choosing a bad doctor again. I spent a few years just delaying the inevitable till finally, in 2012, I decided to remove instead of replacing them. Thing is, most plastic surgeons don't want or don't know how to do it.. So every consultation was "you shouldn't do it", "I won't perform the surgery", "you'll look awful", "your breasts will look like deflated balloons", "nothing I can do". One certain (quite renowned) doctor wanted to charge me about 30g cause he said if I didn't do lifting, mastopexy and a specific and difficult technique that only a few doctor could do, my boobs would look atrocious, and even after all that they'd still be flat and ugly. Not exaggerating, that was his prognosis. I believed him and felt awful. I could live with the ugly non-breasts, but I didn't have that kind of $! But recently I found this page that gave me hope again cause I've seen a lot of women who didn't need six types of surgeries to have, not only normal looking breasts, but CUTE looking breasts!! Awesome! I'm done with implants! In june/july they need to be out \o/!!!
HELP/ADVICES: Now, for the real reason I'm here. I wanna know from other women who had explants, how was it, did you just have them removed? Did you have to have any other procedures, like mastopexy, lifting, fat transfer, etc? What about you girls with CC? How did your explants go? Are you all happy with your decision? Anyone from Brazil can recommend me a doctor? Alguém do Brasil que possa me recomendar um médico que não vá tentar me covencer a recolocar o silicone?
I'm really sorry for the really huge story, and thank you for being so brave!