Soon Be out! - England

Hi girls, Grannie here, well I had my explant on July 10, I had to stay in hospital overnight & go home with drains. The pain hasn't been too bad, I am scheduled for replacement on the 25th tentatively, still reluctant about that, but mine were in for 35 years & Doc said they had probably been leaking for years, it only showed up in my Dec 2011 mamo for the first time. There was a lot of tissue & even muscle damage in my left so lots of bleeding & inflammation. Mine were in such bad shape they really are deformed so guess I'll take a chance & replace, since I'm 67 maybe they will last till I don't care anymore :( Right now I'm just waiting until my drainage gets down to an acceptable amount. I'm now 1 week PO & not much energy, light headed & dizzy, I got off the pain meds cause I couldn't have a bm so am on tylenol. will keep u posted. Am wondering if anyone has had a replacement exp. where the doc. won't really talk cc's as far as size goes, (I had 225 cc (size B cup) and he's saying he will go by my body stucture, size, shape etc. for replacement. I really don't want to go much bigger but realize with sagging & stretching will have to go somewhat larger. I really do think the current ones are much safer,, I hope!!

Hi Grannie, I had my silicone implants in for 30 years and had them explanted on July 6th. I was on the fence to about being reimplanted or just having them explanted. I waited till the last minute when the ps had to know and decided to just explant. I feel so much better with the implants gone. I have asymmetrical breasts and have all my life, one side just never really developed much. I still decided to just explant. My ps gave me the option of doing a fat transfer. I am waiting 6 months to heal on the advice of my ps and then he is going to to the "Brava System" and then do the fat transfer to the breasts. He has had good results with the system and say he can give me symetrical well shaped breasts using my own body fat and stem cells. so that is my plan, January I will start the Brava system. My husband says he would rather me go this route than to have implants again. He said he's glad there gone. Even at 56 I still want boobs.

Why didn't your ps reimplant at the same time he took the old ones out? That was what my ps was going to do if I had decided to go with the new silicone. Don't let the ps talk you into bigger implants than you want, you won't be happy with them if he makes them to big. I never heard of the patient not being able to pic the implant size. Have you seen the new cohesive gel implants? they are pretty cool, the ps put a hole in one and squeezed it and let go and the gel went back inside the implant. Not sure how they would be for silicone bleed. they seem to have made some advancements in the implants.

Hope you feel better soon, and that everything works out with your new implants. I will keep you in my prayers.

After many years of leaking (undetected) the silicon had made such a mess of my tissue & even into the muscle, calcification & all that. He had to do so much scraping etc. to remove as much as possible & there was a lot ofbleeding & inflammation that needed to drain & recover for awhile before replacing them, I'm not sure how long we could wait he glued the areola incisions shut & that is only temporary, I will be seeing him in a few days & will ask these new questions. thanks for your response :)

Hi Grannie,
Just wanted to say if you were keen to consider explant only, I would leave it a while to see how your breasts turn out. They say to give it 6 months - 12 months for the final result. You wont even recognise your breasts from now to a months time if you leave them out - they change so much!

Hi BB, just wanted to say that the cohesive gel implants arent necessarily safer...that was what all the PIP implants are, and the ones I had. Although they are obviously toxic, it's still important to remember that the same thing would happen in terms of effect on your body if you had non PIP ones...what I'm saying not very well is that fact they are hard gel rather than liquid does not stop leakage!

Hope you are feeling ok?

Hi andi22, I am feeling fantastic. I'm glad I got off the fence and went for the explant.

I don't think there are any gel implants on the market that are safe. No matter what they are your body will probably still develope CC, and i'm sure they would still bleed through the shell, like mine did. I just thought they looked cool when I held it in my hands and that things sure have changed over the last 30 years. I would hate to see anyone go through the explant and get the toxins out of their body only to put it back in. To each his own, I can understand how everyone that decides to reimplant would feel. I am going to have my asymmetrical breasts fixed after the first of the year using my own body fat. I feel good about that.

So glad you are feeling good :) and you are totally right!

TOO right naturalagain , deffo the right decision ! glad all is well with you and you are getting on with life as normall. Its amazing how we all move on from a horrible time, and how quick we get back to normall, when at the time it felt like it was the end of the world ! Happy days xx

Andi22, thanks for that Info it makes interesting reading... I still think theres a link too. but guess we will just have to see, what comes up in the future, Hope you are managing your health, and its not making life too difficult, going to have a look on the foodmatters site now, for some tips on eating healthy ! hope I dont have to cut out on bacon butties lol !

Haha! I would be interested to see what you think if you watch it.

Hi Ana8048, my surgeon was a Mr Mardi. and it was at the manchester hospital. I dont know if he travels down to london , It wasnt the same surgeon that did my implants first time as he now works else where, but I was pleased with Mr Mardi, he didnt try and push me to have them replaced once I had said I wanted them removed. although the lady (co-ordinator) was trying her very best to ge me to replace them. so stick to your guns !!! good luck. :0)

hi, steph, my implants were under the muscle, but if u search on here there are some ladies that had them removed from above muscle and are still very happy with the results, so I wouldnt worry too much, you will look different, but you just have to come to terms with being the old you again, but a worry free new you !! so its not so bad ! good luck with your journey :o)

Thank you!

Hi Steph, my implants were above the muscle and they look fine. I havent read surgeons say that makes a difference...

hi rach, so glad ur all done and dusted ! what a big relief for you now its all over with and you are healing nicely. bet you still feel just as femminine as you did, if not better. now you have a normal natural pair of boobs.well done and keep up the good work [RS bleep]

hey laineylou, good luck with ur opp, it will soon be over and done with ! Im not sure if my autoimmune probs have got any better just yet, my husband says I have more energy, and he's noticed i'm more energetic and motivated around the house !
I have an appointment with my Rheumatologist next month , i will prob have bloods done etc so will see if there is any noticable change in the results ! I really hope so, I will have to tell him too, As I didnt know my implants could have been a trigger for my problems the last time I saw him. It would be great if there was a huge change and we could deffinatly pin it on them !! It was funny I saw an old film made in the early 90's which was about woman and implants, and was about the problems caused etc, and autoimmune issues, so there has to be somethink in it . in fact if I remember right it was a true story, so if it was happening back then, why are they not making woman aware of the possible side effcts before they get them done now ? anyway rant over lol ...
keep smiling not long to go, the feeling of relief you will have will be a huge weight off ur mind xx

hi, golden neddie is fine.J was very naughty and had a walk out on him one wk in.. trotting is still a bit of a no no. but I have managed to wear a sports bra today without it rubbing so might try a trot over wk end. im back to mucking out, and doing all the dirty duties :0) oh the joys !! and funnily enough didnt have those pains last night so hopefully its mending ! glad urs is settling too x

Gypsy what you described is exactly how I feel. When I turn over in bed sometimes or turn I get a shapr kind of pulling, mine too is my right. It feels like it's in my ribs and sometimes takes my breath away. I read somewhere that dissovable stitches take ages to go? Don't know if that's true. I see my ps Monday, I'm going to mention it. I know what he'll say"give it time" it's only been 5 weeks."
The way he's done the stitches looks like the end of the stitcing is on the outside of the right, but the outside of the left is towards the middle. On the ends where it looks like the stictching has finished. The scar is more raised. I don't have issues with the left, just the right. Do you think this could be the reason?

ouch backtonormal ! I had a quick read on net and it would seem these odd pains are normal. and mine seem to have stopped all of a sudden, its just nice to know its not just you its happening to,and like mopsie also says, she had strange pains too so its all good !! carnt believe your nearly 4 months in gosh !