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Hi everyone, I know that most of you say it but I...
Hi everyone, I know that most of you say it but I am Sooooooooo glad I found this website and have faithfully followed stories for over a year now.
My story started back in 2004 and was at the height of the 'Extreme Makeover' series running on the TV and yes I thought this looked an easy way of addressing some issues I had with my body. I have always been quite slim with small breast but then always had large hips so I felt like 2 shapes rolled into the one person. At the time I had a well-paid job so the cost of liposuction to my hips and the breast augmentation weren't a problem. I decided on 320g implants under the muscle.
Things were great for the first 6 months until I noticed both breasts seemed to be getting harder and the implant seemed to be moving further up my chest. My liposuction was also a bit of a disaster with one side a different shape to the other and large dints at the entrance site.
I went back to see my surgeon and he agreed to redo the lipo and at the same time sort out the implants, he sorted them out by 'cracking' the capsule! Well after that I suppose I just accepted that they didn't look like I would have liked them to but hey I had slimmer hips and larger breasts so all was well in the world.
After the initial honeymoon period with the implants, although still a little unhappy with their position being too high, I slowly started to try and conceal them. I didn't notice I was doing it at first, buying baggier clothes, nothing too low cut. Slowly but surely I felt like they were all people noticed about me. I felt they were getting bigger, though in truth I had started to put on weight. I felt frumpy and when I put jumpers on felt that I had a ‘monobreast’. I joked about it to friends and laughed about them being ‘under my chin’ but deep down I just wanted them out regardless of how they might look afterwards.
Since having them put in we had now moved to a different area 400 miles from where we use to live, I was in a part time job whose pay, by comparison to my previous job, was rubbish. Every hope I had of having an explant went out of the window so I just got on with it.
So time went on, sleeping with these concrete blocks on your chest is not good, so uncomfortable. Bras don’t fit well no matter what size I buy, the upper poles being too full and the lower part of the breast being floppy. On a recent holiday I was really upset to see pictures of myself. On one rollercoaster ride where you have a restraint that pulls down over your head, I was horrified to see the photo at the end which just emphasised my breast pushed between the restraints, even the girl on the kiosk laughed when she saw it. That was it, cost or not I started looking into it again and thanks to this wonderful web site have already been to see a surgeon Dr Nicholas Collins at the Nuffied Hospital in Newcastle.
Explant date 8th August, cant wait and I do have some questions for you lovely ladies that have already been through the procedure next time I post, I will also get some photos on here but off to work just now, thank you for reading this. :)
My story started back in 2004 and was at the height of the 'Extreme Makeover' series running on the TV and yes I thought this looked an easy way of addressing some issues I had with my body. I have always been quite slim with small breast but then always had large hips so I felt like 2 shapes rolled into the one person. At the time I had a well-paid job so the cost of liposuction to my hips and the breast augmentation weren't a problem. I decided on 320g implants under the muscle.
Things were great for the first 6 months until I noticed both breasts seemed to be getting harder and the implant seemed to be moving further up my chest. My liposuction was also a bit of a disaster with one side a different shape to the other and large dints at the entrance site.
I went back to see my surgeon and he agreed to redo the lipo and at the same time sort out the implants, he sorted them out by 'cracking' the capsule! Well after that I suppose I just accepted that they didn't look like I would have liked them to but hey I had slimmer hips and larger breasts so all was well in the world.
After the initial honeymoon period with the implants, although still a little unhappy with their position being too high, I slowly started to try and conceal them. I didn't notice I was doing it at first, buying baggier clothes, nothing too low cut. Slowly but surely I felt like they were all people noticed about me. I felt they were getting bigger, though in truth I had started to put on weight. I felt frumpy and when I put jumpers on felt that I had a ‘monobreast’. I joked about it to friends and laughed about them being ‘under my chin’ but deep down I just wanted them out regardless of how they might look afterwards.
Since having them put in we had now moved to a different area 400 miles from where we use to live, I was in a part time job whose pay, by comparison to my previous job, was rubbish. Every hope I had of having an explant went out of the window so I just got on with it.
So time went on, sleeping with these concrete blocks on your chest is not good, so uncomfortable. Bras don’t fit well no matter what size I buy, the upper poles being too full and the lower part of the breast being floppy. On a recent holiday I was really upset to see pictures of myself. On one rollercoaster ride where you have a restraint that pulls down over your head, I was horrified to see the photo at the end which just emphasised my breast pushed between the restraints, even the girl on the kiosk laughed when she saw it. That was it, cost or not I started looking into it again and thanks to this wonderful web site have already been to see a surgeon Dr Nicholas Collins at the Nuffied Hospital in Newcastle.
Explant date 8th August, cant wait and I do have some questions for you lovely ladies that have already been through the procedure next time I post, I will also get some photos on here but off to work just now, thank you for reading this. :)
My before and before pictures
I found some before implant pictures and also my with implant pictures.
Its funny, my husband said why are you putting photo's on the web site but I carefully explained that without all you brave and beautiful ladies who have also had an explant and without your photos I might never had the courage to go ahead with the procedure.
I continue to be shocked when I look at my breast photos, I really don't feel that's me at all. The shape of them is all wrong, I have heard its called a 'double bubble' when the implant sits too high and gives too much projection then the breast tissue hangs below, sort of makes them look a bit square
Roll on the 8th August :)
Its funny, my husband said why are you putting photo's on the web site but I carefully explained that without all you brave and beautiful ladies who have also had an explant and without your photos I might never had the courage to go ahead with the procedure.
I continue to be shocked when I look at my breast photos, I really don't feel that's me at all. The shape of them is all wrong, I have heard its called a 'double bubble' when the implant sits too high and gives too much projection then the breast tissue hangs below, sort of makes them look a bit square
Roll on the 8th August :)
After the implant ;(
Here are my implants, oddly shaped and too high
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