Bigger and Better the 2nd Time Around! (Internal Bra Sutures and Augmentation) - San Diego, CA

so its been almost 2 weeks since my surgery and i feel pretty good! i get kinda itchy sometimes still, but the rashes have subsided and now that the weather is finally cooling off, im not sweating up a storm. my right side is looking good and no pain and i'm able to move around, but im trying not to push my limits. the left side is another story. i still have the bolster dressing, the little open areas of skin are healing and i'm having to change/reinforce the tape every couple of days because of my sweat and the itchiness. i'm still keeping my left arm by my side as much as i can, considering i need to change clothes and stuff, i'm doing the best i can. sometimes i still wake up with my left arm above my head and i'm like..oh shoot...did i rip a stitch or anything? ALSO...allergies have been so crazy this last week and every time i sneeze i feel a sharp pain where i think the internal sutures are. so i brace my left side when i sneeze. my coworkers just think i like holding myself real tight all the time. but i go in for a check up next week so we'll see how i'm progressing! so excited.

1 WEEK POST OP

finally went back to work today, its been a few days off percocet and the valium wore off WAY before i went to work so i was good on a little tylenol. it was hard not moving my left arm away from my side and i caught myself reaching for things and having to open doors and stuff so i'm probably gonna be a little swollen tonight. my right arm and breast is fine. no pain, i can flex and extend and pretty much use it however i need to, but i do so gingerly. hopefully i'm not ruining anything. in my head when ever i feel my left pec muscle flex or i move my left arm away or do anything with it i picture a suture ripping. or when you get those flashes of lightning through your breast that are supposed to be "normal" for the first few months i just imagine that im doing something detrimental and the pain will come back and i'll be back at square one. its negative, i know. but sometimes i cant help it. my PS surgeons office called me a few times today (one to wake me up and one during work that i missed) then during my break they called again and i was able to speak with Dr Pousti. He said redoing the dressing was fine. and it alleviated my guilt because i had promised him i would behave and i redid the dressing on my own without asking him. he found my updates on this website comical. so now i feel better and can't wait to finish healing and get on in this beautiful weather with a bikini!

POST OP DAY 5

it has been UNSEASONABLY HOT here and so i have been itching and scratching and literally trying to rip my skin off without lifting my left arm up...and my allergies are in full swing so everytime i sneeze i must literally brace myself. i have started to develop scabs and broken skin around the tape of the bolster dressing and a couple of areas that i reinforced and had taken the tape off just ripped my already thinning skin from the swelling and itching that has happened. im so so so itchy i dont even know what to do. ive taken off all my surgical bras and sports bras and applied bio oil to the red areas and put on a long thin tank top first the reapplied my layers of surgical bra and compression sports bra. that may have been what made me feel better..that or the valium i took in order to get the muscle spasms undercontrol...in any case i KNOCKED OUT and slept very soundly. the pictures are pretty nasty...so brace yourself. i kinda have sensitive skin already and the heat and sweat isnt helping. ive tried to wipe down several times with baby wipes...we'll see

POST OP DAY 6

today i called the PS office and asked if i could take the tape off my bolster dressing and redo ALL THE TAPE because the rash and itching was so severe. no one was able to answer my question and i wasnt trying to drug myself into a stupor to stop the itching so i sat in a bathtub with water up to my belly button and did as much of a bath as i could..which wasnt a lot considering again i can only use my right arm. (which my the way is amazingly pain free..probably because i already had an implant and there wasnt so much swelling going on). I had my boyfriend slowly peel the tape off my dressing and cut it off, maintaining the actual gauze portion in contact with my skin, and wipe down the rashed areas. this was done while i was lying on my right side on an incline pillow. he then covered the red areas with bio oil again and we let that dry and he retaped the same dressing back on to my body. i know my surgeon would KILL me...i mean he WILL KILL ME when he find out, but i really couldnt take it and no one called me back from the PS office to give me and answer. there was a lot of swelling and pain after the dressing reinforcement so i put on all the bras again and took half a pain med and half a valium. i wish i could get off the pain meds and switch to OTCs, but maybe not yet. its so difficult keeping my Left arm down. i caught myself stretching this morning and nearly cried. I really need to take care of this side. i would be devastated if i needed another internal bra suturing done. i feel like i let myself down and my surgeon down by breaking the rules about keeping the dressing on. but i maintained the pressure and support by laying down and hold the dressing on my body with my right hand and a only slightly left enough space between my arm and body to get the tape through. i hope i didnt ruin anything. i cant really post any pictures of the total augmentation because i dont like keeping my support bras off long enough to take pictures. im pretty much obsessed with needing the supportive bras now...sad. but as soon as i get the go ahead...the boobie pictures will be up and running. until then you can look at the bolster dressing and rashes.. exciting i know...