My Journey Through B.A., Will Post Pics Soon - Carmel, Indiana

I went to my post op yesterday. It went well. My incisions look good i think they look gross but he says good, Boobs look good. I go back in about 3 weeks. He thinks the swelling will be down in a couple weeks. I'm having a lot of pain in my right arm, he said its a nerve so he wrote me a Rx to calm the "nerves", not anxiety, my actually nerves. I haven't hd any zingers for a few days. Just sore, and achy, and still swollen. Right now it looks like I have high profiles, I feel like the swelling will never go down. My left is larger then the right, I'm trying REALLY hard not to focus on it, but its simply larger, and the nipple on the right is pointing slightly downward compared to the left, and the left has more "sideboob". I feel like he filled the left just slighty too much, but trying to be optimistic that its just because everything isn't healed yet. I can feel the implant on the left, he said I probably always will, but it just creeps me out a little. Overall they are getting softer, I think they are going to feel and look very natural. Doctor suggested I'm having a little harder time with this since I have not had children or surgery before, this is the most "painful" thing I have been through. Makes sense. I still haven't had that overjoyed, awesome feeling yet..probably because of other stuff going on. Hopefully when they settle and I can go fitted and buy new bras it will all be more exciting!

Alrite, the day of firsts...First day back to work [im a dental assistant], first day driving, first day taking less pain meds [only 2 the entire day], first day pulling a shirt over my head. It went ok. The zingers are better, now I'm getting all those lovely spuishy, gurgling, blurbing sounds from the pockets [weird], and just general tightness/soreness, mild zingers. I had to take the strap off when i got home for a lil bit, it drives me nuts, and seems to make them hurt more. I was able to do pretty much everything at work, I just made sure I wasn't lifting anything too heavy, or lifting my arms up too high. Driving was different, some of my muscles still seem weak from the incisions so turning the wheel was a little akward. My steristrips came off in the shower last night, the incisions...well..although ugly and swollen, seem sealed and healing, it's driving me nuts not being able to shave my armpit completely, absolutely nuts. Getting dressed was a little difficult. I'm going to try not to take anymore pain meds from here on out, just ibuprofen and an occasional muscle relaxer if needed. I'm still pretty swollen, especially if i take the strap off, they swell right back up, my nipples are really swollen still [im starting to wonder if they'll ever go back to normal] but they are getting softer, so hopefully they will start dropping soon. I have my post op in the A.M. Oh, The doctors office sent me flowers today : ) I'll post a pic later : )

Well we are 4 days in, I expected to be further in healing by now. I'm still having A LOT of pain. Mostly just morning boob and ZINGERS. The zingers are what are bothering me, they hurt really bad! Everything looks fine otherwise, no redness, they aren't too "hot", no discharge, so I guess it's just part of the healing process, and I'm one of the "lucky" ones that gets it bad. Swelling hasn't gone down very much either. They pretty much look exactly the same as they did 4 days ago...I'm a little worried about going back to work tomorrow with the zingers. And I have my post op with my PS tuesday morning. I should be able to start doing massages after that appt, so I'm hoping that will help. I've always thought I have a really high pain tolerance, but this is kicking my butt! I"m just now coming to terms with the fact that I really did it, and they are really there.