Need Advice - Sacramento, CA

Nichelle123: Let me tell you about my experience. I also had my implants put in under the skin originally. The results were not great. It looks like implants under your skin. Problem was after I talked with a very experienced doctor about implants, he explained to me that butt implants are always suppose to be put in under the muscle. I developed an infection, with fluid build up. I was on a very strong antibiotic for a year with a drain for just as long and once a week I had to drive over an hour to the cosmetic surgeon's office (not plastic surgeon) to drain my cheek. After a year they were removed. Talk about less than a butt, the implant stretched out my skin and left me with nothing but saggy tissue, my butt literally looked like 2 pancakes and they bounced off the back of my thighs. After a year of the doctor telling me the tissue has to heal itself and would take 3 months, I flew to Venezuela to have my butt reconstructed without implants. You had your implants for 2 years but they immediately but the implants under the muscle and your 4 months post op. Do you see any improvement from when they first did the replacement? If you don't, chances are very likely you won't but the doctor will tell you he sees improvement and just wait a little longer. You might find it increasingly difficult to get an appt. with him. You need to see how experienced your doctor is and if he has ever done an immediate implant replacement & if he says he has ask to see the pics and don't be scared to ask if you can call that person yourself and talk to them. He should have nothing to hide, if he's experienced. From what I was told by the best booty doctor in the US, he explained that the butt pockets need at least 6 months to heal and then you can do a replacement implant. If you have any more questions, I'll be happy to answer. Good luck .

... sorry you had to go thru that. Do you think the complications arose solely bc the implants were sub facial the first time? Im looking to get this done and need all the advise I can get. .... If you havent had lipo, maybe you can get a bbl to fix it... just a thought. Prayers sent up for you...

I hate to hear another woman going thru this. I have my own butt implant story very similar to urs & I just hope I'm going about my journey the right way. I'm so embarrassed about mine too. Do you have any current information to share? Anything would be soo helpful to me, I'm trying to get mine fixed as well.

I have done months of research about butt implants and even talked to my ps that did my breast implants and I have heard women that are getting a butt implant revision because they had implants put over the muscle are suppose to take the implant out and wait 3-6 months before they even go back in and put new butt implants inbetween the muscles because where the skin was stretched needs to heal and tighten back up so if you don't wait and you just take the old implants out and put new ones inbetween the muscle you will still have the sagging skin. Some women even have to have a lift done on the butt because of the skin bent stretched out and then still wait a few months to add in the new butt implants.

So it looks like your procedure was done incorrectly bank in 2013 possibly because the lack of education on the proper technique . The revision doesn’t look that great neither and it may be because the implants didn’t settle and or because you should have had liposuction and fat grafting to your lower butt