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So today I have been stressing about my left...

So today I have been stressing about my left breast because I just recently noticed how it was becoming much harder than my other one. I noticed this because the other day my husband and I were messing around and he had my on his back with my chest pressed again his back. He lifted me off my feet with my chest pressing on his back. I heard a pop! I freaked out and said you broke my implant. I started to really check myself. I then noticed on side was softer than the other. After doing my research I realized that my soft side was normal not a broke implant and my harder side was turning into capsule contracture. I started looking at old pictures of myself and noticed a big change in my breasts. They were beginning to look harder and more up high, more my left side than my right. In the beginning my breasts looked so natural when I got them done. You couldn't even tell I hard surgery. They still had he natural drop to them that I wanted. I didn't want fake looking breasts I just wanted them to be filled back out due to breastfeeding. So in doing research I read you can do some massaging or surgery. I read up a lot on the capsular contracture to really see what it was and what it looked like. I saw a surgeon take one and had to cut it with a knife to pull out an implant from inside it. So I learned that they were extremely hard to break once formed. I started thinking maybe I could fix it myself. I really didn't want surgery and wasn't going to get it again. So I read up on some other women like me that had the same problems and what they did to fix them. One of them said how they had a grade IV capsular contracture so they started to roll on them everyday with a foam roller. From the top of the chest to the bottom everyday. After a few months when she went to her Dr. he said she was now at a Grade II. So I knew there was hope if I worked on them. I knew that my capsular contracture was newer. It just started to happen over that last few months. So I sat down on my couch after reading about the foam roller. I put my chest to my couches arm because it was round and soft. When I laid on my chest one breast was much softer than the other and the other was hard. So I sat up and felt my right breast. I squeezed it very hard and it was easy to. I then grabbed my left breast and did the same and I could not fully squeeze it like my other one. It felt like a hard water balloon. So I took both of my hands and put them into fists determined to break the capsular contracture. I started to push my fists together with the hard water balloon feeling implant/capsular contracture. I pushed and squeezed as hard was I could not stopping until I heard a pop. Like a water balloon popping. I was stunned! I couldn't believe I did it. Something so many women had surgery for I fixed myself. I then realized when I heard a pop in my right breast from my chest being on my husbands back that I must of had a low grade of capsular contracture in that one too. That's what the pop was. So thank god to my husband for horse playing with me when he did. Otherwise I would never of know what was happening to my breasts and they could of got to the point of needing surgery. Everything does happen for a reason. Thank you god! Once I heard my left breast pop it felt so much better. It is actually almost just as soft as the right one. Almost identical now. I am assuming that the capsular contractor is still around my implant and I just broke it so I am going to keep up my massaging and really moving my implants all around to keep the hardness from forming again. I hope this can help other women out there. Catching it early is the key. I think that's why I was able to break mine. So if your implant is hard put it between your fists and squeeze the crap out of it till you hear the pop. Don't get nervous. It's just the capsular contracture bursting.

So it's been over a year now and I seem to have...

So it's been over a year now and I seem to have capsular contracture in my left breast. Very disappointing! This is the thing with implants they are expensive and you never know when something is going to happen to them and you need another surgery and another and another. They can definitely cost you a lot in a life time. At this point I would of been better leaving them the way they were or just getting a lift. This is what happens when you put something foreign in your body that is not suppose to be there.

I absolutely hated the way I looked. I had for...

I absolutely hated the way I looked. I had for almost 5 years. I gained 50lbs when I got pregnant and lost all of it plus 10 lbs after without even trying. Then I was left with this horrifying body. I never thought I would look like this after I had my child. He was 9lbs 11.9oz when he was born and that was taking him out 6 days early. I had a very athletic build before. My ps worked hard on my belly. He really wanted to make sure he got all of the excess skin he could get and the skin that had the stretch marks. He even pieced back together my tattoo on my right hip that I knew was going to be cut in half. So it actually looks pretty good and I don't even have to worry about getting it fixed right away if ever.

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Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
160 Commonwealth Avenue, Unit L1, Boston, Massachusetts
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Dr. Brooke Seckel was amazing! I waited a long time for this surgery so when it came time I wanted to pick the absolute best doctor I could find and get the best results possible. With Dr. Seckel I did just that! I know that no other PS could of done better. He was amazing and really took his time with my surgery and it shows. It changed my life! I am sooo much more happier everyday and I no longer have to feel embarassed of my body. All I wanted was to feel normal again and he did much more than that. I actually feel beautiful. He exceeded my expectations and I am truley grateful!!!!Updated on 27 Feb 2012:Dr. Brooke Seckel was amazing! I waited a long time for this surgery so when it came time I wanted to pick the absolute best doctor I could find and get the best results possible. With Dr. Seckel I did just that! I know that no other PS could of done better. He was amazing and really took his time with my surgery and it shows. It changed my life! I am sooo much more happier everyday and I no longer have to feel embarassed of my body. All I wanted was to feel normal again and he did much more than that. I actually feel beautiful. He exceeded my expectations and I am truley grateful!!!!