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Capsular Contracture
Hi ladies. I'm sorry it's been so long since I've updated. Life got busy and my boobs just became a normal part of life and I was really enjoying them with the exception of sometimes still wishing they were smaller (usually when wearing a bathing suit or something showing a lot of cleavage). Working out got pretty much back to normal (eventually) with the exception of push ups. Those never really felt like a good thing to be doing. I could do them but it felt really weird so I didn't do many at all. Scars were healing great.
Around May, about 6 months post op, I began to feel a tightening in my right breast and it just progressed, pretty quickly actually. It became much harder than my left. I saw my PS and he advised aggressive massaging for a month to see if that would help. It didn't so he told me he would do a capsulotomy at no charge and would like me to wait until about 1 year post op. I was happy to wait since the surgery wouldn't interfere with summer that way. My breast felt tight, harder, painful here and there and was really uncomfortable to lay on.
I had the surgery on October 11th so I'm about 3 days post op now. I don't have much swelling and most of the pain is gone. My breast looks better already though not quite normal. I expect that to improve with time. The surgery was under local anesthetic. Hurt a little but nothing I couldn't handle. My PS made an incision in my crease, removed the implant, released the capsule and replaced the implant.
I am just hoping and praying there are no more complications. I knew this was a risk going into all this and so far I'm still glad I did it, but I do hope this is it! Thankfully my surgeon didn't charge anything for the revision but I do feel guilty that my hubby and kids have to deal with my boobs again; although they've been great - I just wish it was something that could only affect me.
Anyway, that's what's going on with me. I'll add some pics from before my surgery. I've gotten to the point where I don't like to take pics of my boobs (imagine that!) so I just asked my PS to send them to me.
Around May, about 6 months post op, I began to feel a tightening in my right breast and it just progressed, pretty quickly actually. It became much harder than my left. I saw my PS and he advised aggressive massaging for a month to see if that would help. It didn't so he told me he would do a capsulotomy at no charge and would like me to wait until about 1 year post op. I was happy to wait since the surgery wouldn't interfere with summer that way. My breast felt tight, harder, painful here and there and was really uncomfortable to lay on.
I had the surgery on October 11th so I'm about 3 days post op now. I don't have much swelling and most of the pain is gone. My breast looks better already though not quite normal. I expect that to improve with time. The surgery was under local anesthetic. Hurt a little but nothing I couldn't handle. My PS made an incision in my crease, removed the implant, released the capsule and replaced the implant.
I am just hoping and praying there are no more complications. I knew this was a risk going into all this and so far I'm still glad I did it, but I do hope this is it! Thankfully my surgeon didn't charge anything for the revision but I do feel guilty that my hubby and kids have to deal with my boobs again; although they've been great - I just wish it was something that could only affect me.
Anyway, that's what's going on with me. I'll add some pics from before my surgery. I've gotten to the point where I don't like to take pics of my boobs (imagine that!) so I just asked my PS to send them to me.
Spitting Stitches
I saw the nurse today and she said the red area that was bothering me where I saw and felt a white plastic like piece poking out was oozing a bit but no stitch there so she said it probably already fell out (it did get to the point where I could no longer see/feel it but still hurt). The area at the center of the inverted T where I had a white scab was a spitting stitch (suture really) so she scraped it and trimmed it. She put aquaphor on the areas and covered with no stick gauze and told me to change dressing tonight, reapply aquaphor and them put new tapes on tomorrow. I took a pic just a few mins ago. It kind of stings but wasn't bad at all (which is making me think I have more numbness than I thought).
I had put neosporin and a bandaid on it but she said no more neosporin because it has some properties they don't like. I didn't ask for more details.
The hole stings and I get a shooting pain here and there so hopefully it will get better soon. Happy healing and happy new year ladies!
I had put neosporin and a bandaid on it but she said no more neosporin because it has some properties they don't like. I didn't ask for more details.
The hole stings and I get a shooting pain here and there so hopefully it will get better soon. Happy healing and happy new year ladies!
I hit post on accident...more pics
More pics
Provider Review
Dr. Hewell is a very talented and caring surgeon with tons of experience. He's pretty funny too! I would refer anyone I know to him without hesitation. If you know exactly what you want, make sure you convey that. He sees his patients a lot in follow ups, which is wonderful, but make sure you ask questions: restrictions after surgery, sleeping, etc. I often would not have known I was supposed to do something or not to do something if I didn't ask. Great doctor!