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My name is Donna I'm 38 years old and live in...

My name is Donna I'm 38 years old and live in Somerset in the UK. I have four children the yoUngest is seven and a half months old and the eldest is 21 years old. Big span!
In 2004 I underwent my first breast augmentation but unfortunately I was ones of the PIP rupture patients and only had them for 4 years before they had to be removed. At this time I remarried and decided not to have the implants put back in and try for another baby. Two years later and 10 miscarriages at early stage of pregnancy I decided to give up and get my boobs back !!! I started my quest to find a new surgeon and consulted with 4 different surgeons that had good qualification and experience and ended up feeling best settled with Dr Simon Lee from Bristol.
I had my breasts re-augmented which I was over the moon with, I was soooo over the moon that he asked me if I would like to go up to Bristol film studios for the day along wIth some of his other former patients and have some photos done and talk about ( on camera ) my experience with him and his clinic which I was more than happy to do !
You can have a look at my results on YouTube I will add it to my blog here but I am not an advert I am a real patient as I know that you are not aloud to be someone that is just an advert for the doctor..... I promise I am the real deal .... On the YouTube vid I am Donna Nethercott although I think I look goofy on there my hair has gone wonky and the makeup artist smeared horrid brown eyeshadow all over my eyes !!!! i will share because it has my before and after pics on.
I had this done on the 1st September 2010, in May 2011 I became pregnant with a 'staying in there baby' , forward on 9 months I give birth and have gained a whopping 72 lbs ARRRRGGGHHHHHHH
So for the last six months I have dieted and worked hard to jog that fat off allllll of it !
However I am now left with nipples that sit well below my implants .... MASSIVE nipples, and a very saggy tummy slightly rounded from my muscle divarification and really want to have a full tummy tuck and breast uplift with much smaller implants so I can jog lots as I'm really enjoying my fitness more than ever these days and feel my 500 gram implants are to big for this new lifestyle change really.
My husband says that he love me the way I am and I say that I don't love me the way I am and refuse to go on holiday until I feel human in a bikini again.
On the 17th September I went back to surprise him with my new baby and new saggy bits.
He was as lovely as before and after telling him about my lifestyle change (lots of jogging) he recommended that I go with a very soft round implants .... Note: don't forget I have large teardrop shape right now. I have my second consult tomorrow at 11 o'clock and here are the questions I am going to ask tomorrow
1. Are the implants cohesive gel ?

2. Does he recommend anything for scar treatment ?

3. Laxatives - good idea or not ?

4. Does he use compression garments ?

5. Band width of post op bra - shall I go up a size or 2 for swelling ?

6. How long till I can shower ?

7. How long is the operation?

8. How long is my hospital stay ?

9. Will I have drains - how long for ?

10. How long until I can lift baby gently from cot to pushchair to high chair etc ?

11. I feel that if the new implant is placed into the same pocket ( which is currently above the muscle) it will be far too big a pocket for a considerably smaller implant and will let the new implant flip awkwardly ......this can look odd as I have a friend that this happens to.....or will the uplift make this tighter ? Can I have the bit between ?

Anyway enough for now I will update after consult tomorrow and will also add some pics of what I look like now
27 DAYS TO GO and nervous not of the job he will do because I already know that he is good just nervous about dying and leaving my children and feel very mixed emotion about my selfishness and my need to feel good about me again .... Watch this space ;))

Okay so I've been dying to update but haven't been...

Okay so I've been dying to update but haven't been able to because my computer has gone down but I've discovered a new way to update I've got Siri on my iPhone so now I can talk into it and hopefully everything will come out okay and I can update like this because typing on my phone is a nightmare. So on 5 October I went up to see my plastic surgeon For my second consult and came out with a completely different plan!
My appointment was actually meant to be just 15 minutes but I ended up spending over an hour Harping on about all the things I don't want to Risk and all the things that I now want to do like running! That's what I like about Dr Lee he never rushes you out of the door he sits there and listens and talks about everything with you Other places treat you like a cattle market, meat in meat out, I asked to feel the weight of some of the implants and he pulled loads of implants out Of his draw and i ended up selecting a very very small one which was actually 170 ml And looked at him and said just for a little bit of poof ?
He explained that if I wanted to be this small and was happy to be as small as a B cup That he thought that I had enough tissue to achieve this with an uplift using a special infolding technique both superior and inferior pedicle with waistcoating and Prevents the risk of all the things that I go on about like capsular contracture, Flipping, rupture, rotation or whatever And would reduce my risk of infection!
He said that if I end up too small he could always do a small breast augmentation for me in the future but to be honest I'll just be happy to be back too easy life easy running not thinking about going into surgery ever again Even if it is in say 15 , 20, 30 or 40 years time! So the suggestion that he could do this for me without an implant was like music to my ears.... Don't forget I'm also having a full abdominoplasty So think small boobs will look really nice on me!
I've also asked him to reduce the size of my nipples as they are huge think I've said this before but I'm putting my photos on today anyway so you can see!
When I took my pics to put on here I ended up crying because when I went through the pics I actually realised that I'm a lot worse than what I thought I was so I'm actually even more glad that I'm going to get sorted out!
To be completely honest I know a lot of people are comfortable with their implants and I have been comfortable with my Implants But I do find them kind of annoying And think that I would like to be able to lay on my front without having the feeling of lying on folded up material balls You just to deal with it because you like the look of them Now I don't want to deal with anything Over the last six years my breasts have cost me Along with the abdominoplasty I'm about to have as well 22,000 English pounds As on my first augmentation I have to pay to go back because I had a capsular on my left side And they turned out to be Ruptured PIP implants and I had to also have further surgery to remove silicon lumps out of my armpits lymph nodes so in total I've had Five operations on my breasts just about to have my sixth with TT So you can probably see why I've had enough! Save this really is it for me now if I don't like my breasts the way they look after this time I am going to put up with it and live with it so keep your fingers Crossed for me!
I have every faith in Dr Lee that he will achieve the best that can be achieved for me without implants.... He said they will be small but they will be perky I like the sound of this.
19 days to go and guess what I realised it's going to be Halloween So I'm going to look well gory for it Ha ha

Hi everyone It's 16 days till my surgery and the...

Hi everyone
It's 16 days till my surgery and the main thing I've been doing is stretching my jubbly belly downward and inward in a scrunching motion showing or telling anyone who will listen that this is what I will look like then on my own scrunching up my boobs on top of my implants wondering how the hell my PS is going to make anything out of them and I keep having visions of him getting down to surgery and removing the implants and thinking the same " like how the hell can I make anything out of this crappy stretched bit tissue so then I go back to focusing on the TT !
Next thing is the panic of dying I even feel like I shouldn't write it on here incase I become the story of the woman who blogged about her panic of dying in surgery and did die , it's doing my head in .... I'm only scared of dying because my children would be messed up and yet I know that all mums panic about this so stop writing it !
I got on the scales this morning and have put 4 lb back on so went on Xbox Zumba and took baby for a walk up the hill in pram and got back on my must eat sensibly diet.
I wanted to get down to 9 st 13 for my op which is achievable but then I'm thinking what if that bit of fat comes off my boobs instead of arms an legs and then I have no boob left for uplift job ?
My brain ! Owch !
I finished making my body protector today , I made a frame out of copper tubing and covered it with firm material over the top of some padding to put over my body so my 8 month old cant accidently crawl on my front but with this can actually lie on my front for a cuddle without putting any weight on me ... Ill take a pic tomorrow to show you what I mean!
I'm only having drains in for 2 days he said he will remove them before I go home , mental how diff surgeons can do things sooo differently.
Had a dream that my old PS and new PS moved in with me bizzare obvs time getting closer is taking up 80% of my thought process.

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Redland Hill, The Spire Hospital Bristol, Bristol,
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I originally found this provider by researching and researching the Internet then going to see 4 of the registered experienced/qualified surgeons that were top notch with good reviews ! Note it's English pounds not dollars in the price box. This is the second time I have had surgery with Dr Simon Lee and you can't fault him in anyway. Very friendly and professional with an excellent bedside mannor and has impeccably neat scaring !!!