“New York, New Year, New Me! - New York, NY”

I have been big breasted since the 3rd grade. When I was younger I never really considered having a breast reduction since all the women in my family are pretty busty. When I complained about my breast as I got older my friends would advise me that if I lost weight my breast would go down. Fall 2010, I weighed 198 pounds. After working out and eating right Monday through Friday by summer 2011 I weighed 160. At 160 pounds my breast size was at 34 F. I was previously 38 HH, so my breast didn’t decrease by much. During the summer of 2011 my sixteen year old sister received a breast reduction for her 38 G breast. I witnessed over time how comfortable my little sister became with her body. She went down to a C and loved it. She was able to wear a strapless bra and she also explained to how much perkier her breast were because of surgery. Since I lost weight my one full breast were pretty saggy and in my opinion unattractive. I wasn’t happy with the size or the look of my breast. I believe my little sister getting a breast reduction gave me a push to at least start the process.

On 10/25/11, I had my first consultation. The doctor I saw informed me that my insurance would cover the surgery and the approval would not take long. I explained to the plastic surgeon I enjoyed being busty but I wanted smaller breast. I asked him if it was possible for me to go down to a D. He indicated that because of my frame and body size that he would not make me too small and a D sounded just about right. Surprisingly, my insurance approved the surgery within two weeks so by mid November I had an approval. I decided to schedule my surgery immediately after the New Year on 1/3/11. In the meantime I tried worked out and eat right in order to get closer to my weight loss goal. The day before my surgery I was literally a hot mess. I’ve never had surgery before so the whole anesthesia thing really scared the hell out of me. I pretty much stayed up all day.

The day of my surgery my doctor weighed me and I’m 29 years old, currently 5’3 and 149 pounds. He reminded me that before I was ten pounds heavier and because of my weight loss that he instead of making me a D; he would make me a Big C small D. I was disappointed about the Big C because I was confused about being two sizes. After the surgery I woke up in the recovery room and I felt some throbbing pain. The nurse immediately shot me with something and the pain instantly went away. I woke up to my breast bandage up and I had a surgical bra on (no drainage tubes). I went home the same day and immediately started on the pain killers.

Now I’m on day 4 after my surgery. I don’t have any pain and I gave up on the prescription pain killers and I’m taking just Advil. Though I am not in the pain I still have this sort of mummy type of walk. I don’t pick or lift anything up and I am a bit uncomfortable. The first two days I slept sitting up in a couch with pillows behind my back, now I graduated to the bed. I guess I slept on the couch because I feared rolling on to my stomach. I haven’t see my breast yet though I tried to peak through the bandages. I’m anxiously waiting my post op appointment on Tuesday, January 10th. I want to see what they look like!!!!!!! I’m praying I didn’t go too small. One of my dreams is to finally buy a bra from Victoria Secret. I’m hoping my doctor didn’t make me too small and I end buying padded bras from Victoria Secret after this lol.

Updated on 19 Jan 2012:
So now it’s two weeks and 4 days after my surgery. I saw my breast for the first time on January 10th, and I loved them!! I was glad my plastic surgeon did not make me too small because I’m still a thick girl overall.

So far my healing process was going well but this week I started to get this stop dripping out the side of my left breast. I was so nervous I bust a stitch or something. I went to the doctor on Tuesday January 17th, and he informed me that’s normal. My plastic surgeon is not the most verbal person but he explained that it’s leaking because that’s where the incisions meet (still didn’t make sense to me). But now under my nipple I have this weird opening with stuff leaking out. My PS just advised me to change my gauze often. Has anyone else had this problem? How long does it take incision separation to heal? Originally I was happy about my surgery and overall I still am I guess but I have to admit the way my left breast looks depresses me. I’m also tired of sleeping on my back. I’m a stomach sleeper for the most part.

I weighed myself and I’m two pounds lighter. I’m a bit nervous about gaining weight since I’m not supposed to exercise. I’m one of those people that never quite mastered eating right, I contribute my weight loss to exercising but now that I can’t exercise I’m afraid I’ll gain weight. Any tips on how to lose weight without exercising? Ugggh why am I eating ice cream as I’m writing this??? I would like to lose like an extra pounds, yeah I know I need to put the ice cream down.