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5 years after explanation surgery
5 years after explant. I’m currently a new breastfeeding mama. The human body changes constantly throughout life. What my boobs are today will be different next year. 100% happy that I chose to remove My implants. I prefer my general more athletic build - stronger all over with smaller boobs! But this is my body right now. Self acceptance is one of the greatest lessons to learn in life
Healing and happy photos
Healing and Happy
Well, it's been 9 days since my surgery, so I wanted to post a quick update, as I've made huge changes physically and mentally since my last post. I will post pictures from today separately from my mobile device in a following update.
My breasts are still asymmetrical physically, but mentally this bothers me less and less. I am cracking jokes about my beautiful boob and my granny boob! I am hopeful that my granny(righty) boob will perk up, and they might possibly even out if my beautiful boob has swelling within it, or the granny boob decides to fill in some. I have a follow-up appointment with my PS on Monday, so I will ask her about these things when I see her in person. I am not in any pain, however, so I don't think I have much to be concerned with. If that changes after I go to my appointment, I will post again.
Unless I find out some radical news, or have something pertinent to share, I think I will stop updating my review for awhile, and let my body heal. After some more significant time, I will post again, so that others can see longer-term changes. I hope this will be helpful for others explant sisters!
It is still early on in my healing process, so I do expect more to change, but even if my body were to stay exactly as it is today, I am SO happy with my results. I feel so fortunate for how my breasts have turned out already post-op. I HAVE to tell you though, even better than how I look is how I feel. Because of how I feel, this is the BEST decision I have ever made.
I have regained quite a bit of sensitivity. I think this will only continue to improve as I heal and my body makes all these reconnections. It is hard to describe, but I just feel as a connected whole, and not like there is a foreign object disconnecting my chest from my nerves. I will continue to share sensory changes in my future updates, but I have had a couple people ask me, so I wanted to make sure to share that sensitivity is most definitely already better than it was with implants.
I used to wake up almost every morning with back pain. The other day, I woke up and thought, "WOW! I have not woken up with back pain one single day since my surgery." I wore high heeled boots all evening on Halloween night, and took my daughter trick-or-treating up and down our hilly neighborhood, and NO back pain. NONE. Usually high heel boots would kill my back.
Just to be free of that ever-present weight up front is WONDERFUL!
Oddly enough, the tummy bloat I had almost constantly, unless I just worked out or was starving, is now never there unless I eat a giant meal. It's like my body repositioned how it is carrying my weight, and it doesn't need the extra bloat up front anymore.
I've also lost 4 pounds. I don't know for sure if this is coincidental, since I tend to lose weight with stress, and I have been stressed this week, but the weight hasn't come back even though I've eaten too much food and sweets, and I'm having PMS.
Also, with PMS (and this could be coincidental timing as well) my face is usually a hormonal acne nightmare, but my face is clearer now than it has been in a long time!! Just a timing thing with my skin or could it be because my immune system can now focus on clearing my skin? Perhaps time will tell. Either way, I am loving it! And, I do hope I'm making my immune system stronger by having removed the implants, if only for health reasons that are not cosmetic.
I've just noticed so much that is BETTER without implants. Things that I didn't even realize were bugging me before are feeling better. Some of it, I have no way of knowing if it is because I removed my implants. But other things, like regaining sensitivity, no back pain, and the lifted weight are just making me feel so good, and I know without a doubt are because of explant! I am one happy explanter!
I'll post some pics from today in a separate update coming next, and then I'm signing off for awhile. I hope my journey has been helpful. From my experience, I would say, if you are considering explant, DO IT!! If you end up feeling as good as I do, cosmetics won't mean a thing compared to how good you will feel.
My breasts are still asymmetrical physically, but mentally this bothers me less and less. I am cracking jokes about my beautiful boob and my granny boob! I am hopeful that my granny(righty) boob will perk up, and they might possibly even out if my beautiful boob has swelling within it, or the granny boob decides to fill in some. I have a follow-up appointment with my PS on Monday, so I will ask her about these things when I see her in person. I am not in any pain, however, so I don't think I have much to be concerned with. If that changes after I go to my appointment, I will post again.
Unless I find out some radical news, or have something pertinent to share, I think I will stop updating my review for awhile, and let my body heal. After some more significant time, I will post again, so that others can see longer-term changes. I hope this will be helpful for others explant sisters!
It is still early on in my healing process, so I do expect more to change, but even if my body were to stay exactly as it is today, I am SO happy with my results. I feel so fortunate for how my breasts have turned out already post-op. I HAVE to tell you though, even better than how I look is how I feel. Because of how I feel, this is the BEST decision I have ever made.
I have regained quite a bit of sensitivity. I think this will only continue to improve as I heal and my body makes all these reconnections. It is hard to describe, but I just feel as a connected whole, and not like there is a foreign object disconnecting my chest from my nerves. I will continue to share sensory changes in my future updates, but I have had a couple people ask me, so I wanted to make sure to share that sensitivity is most definitely already better than it was with implants.
I used to wake up almost every morning with back pain. The other day, I woke up and thought, "WOW! I have not woken up with back pain one single day since my surgery." I wore high heeled boots all evening on Halloween night, and took my daughter trick-or-treating up and down our hilly neighborhood, and NO back pain. NONE. Usually high heel boots would kill my back.
Just to be free of that ever-present weight up front is WONDERFUL!
Oddly enough, the tummy bloat I had almost constantly, unless I just worked out or was starving, is now never there unless I eat a giant meal. It's like my body repositioned how it is carrying my weight, and it doesn't need the extra bloat up front anymore.
I've also lost 4 pounds. I don't know for sure if this is coincidental, since I tend to lose weight with stress, and I have been stressed this week, but the weight hasn't come back even though I've eaten too much food and sweets, and I'm having PMS.
Also, with PMS (and this could be coincidental timing as well) my face is usually a hormonal acne nightmare, but my face is clearer now than it has been in a long time!! Just a timing thing with my skin or could it be because my immune system can now focus on clearing my skin? Perhaps time will tell. Either way, I am loving it! And, I do hope I'm making my immune system stronger by having removed the implants, if only for health reasons that are not cosmetic.
I've just noticed so much that is BETTER without implants. Things that I didn't even realize were bugging me before are feeling better. Some of it, I have no way of knowing if it is because I removed my implants. But other things, like regaining sensitivity, no back pain, and the lifted weight are just making me feel so good, and I know without a doubt are because of explant! I am one happy explanter!
I'll post some pics from today in a separate update coming next, and then I'm signing off for awhile. I hope my journey has been helpful. From my experience, I would say, if you are considering explant, DO IT!! If you end up feeling as good as I do, cosmetics won't mean a thing compared to how good you will feel.