Implants are out after 21 years, silicone implants, 2 revisions- Sweden

Hi Plasticnation! So nice to read from you! Well, the FT went well I think, it is only 3 days ago, but PS said it looked fine when he came to my bed after surgery. Now I think it is less painful than implant or explant, one can feel that the breast muscle is not touched. Just very bruised, I have huge hematomas on thighs and down under knees, and stiff feeling and compression thights carve in to my stomach. But just after surgery, when I woke up, the pain was horrible, a burning, very sore pain and nurse told me it is becuase it is not good for the fat cells to use local anesthesia. But I got a lot of morphine and got VERY tired. I am still tired, maybe I got back to work too early, and as I'm alone with my children now it is not much rest. I don't remember for how long I will wear thick padding on my chest, I was worried that work mates would think I got myself a set of 700 cc implants, but I've got questions if I'm pregnant. Haha, not likely. So time will tell how boobs will look and how much fat that stays. I did the FT not so much for size, but to fill out the wrinkles and the empty area around the nipples. 280 ml or cc was transferred to each breast and if a 100 stays I think it will be fine. Most fat was taken from outside of thighs and when I look at the before pictures of my thighs and bum, well, I had resources to take from. I'm not fat, but my thighs are not small. So if fat does not stay in boobs, it can still be a win situation with more slender thighs. I paid 43 000 SEK and I think it is approx 4000 GBP.

You'll have to keep me updated as to this procedure. I want to do FT, the same reasons as you, to fill out the dents etc. I'm just scared if the pain from the donor sites and also the scars etc. I'm also resentful of gaving to spend any more money in these god damn boobs of mine! The surgeon I want here us £6,000 which is a lot if money. How come you are single now? You didn't sound too happy with him so hopefully things are better for you now :-) men eh?!! Let me know how you're doing and how you're finding having boobs again!! X

I will keep you updated!:) Well, I was quite scared about the lipo, from what I've seen on tv, it looks horrible, PS working fiercly with a spear in some poor woman's butt. But I haven't had much pain from donor sites and I have only 2 little scars, one on each hip and I don't think these will be visible. I had bruises on my back, so I thought fat was taken there too, but I had no stitches there so I will have to ask on my check up in March. I asked nurse if all fat that is taken is used, but she said that all the grafted fat can never be used so you have to have more fat than what is needed to put in. Good for me but not so good for a skinnier woman. I think my thighs still look big but I guess it is some swelling too. I really don't know about boobs, they are much better, not so hot, tense and not pounding like fever in them, nurse said this was normal after FT. But the look of them, I guess it takes time, now they look like they will have much the same shape as before, just a little bigger. Left boob is more saggy and my indentation on the right one is still there unfortenately. It is kind of hard to see how they look, I still have a lot of bruising, and when all the tape strips were pulled away it left a funny pattern of bruises on the sides. I'm a little impatient, I want result now, and I want it to look fine. It's funny, when I did the explantation, I was prepared for the worst and was quite happy with any result. But now, it's more like when I had the implants put in, I want boobs to be close to perfect, which is maybe not so realistic. For the rest of me, I am not calling myself single yet, we broke up during Christmas (perfect timing with kids, right?) and we haven't sorted out our living situation yet. So during weekends we live in the same house and it is hard, but I hope the situation will get better soon. X

Hey how are things? I have heard with FT that the results can take a few months and sometimes the boobs shrink but then fill out again. I think with implants the result is instant and you can more or less guess your shape but with FT it can absorb etc. let's hope it works :-) I'm like you, I would just like it to fill in the dents and behind the nipple area so that they do not fold down/cave in. I soooo wish is left them well alone and never had implants. Hindsight is a wonderful thing! I'm sure you will be fine being single and find a whole new life for yourself and your children. Let me know how you progress. Speak soon xx

Hi Plasticnation, time just flies here and now it is suddenly spring. On the boobs progress area it is much the same, no more shrinking. I have started working out and running again, but from the lipo area it still hurts a bit. It is horribly expensive, but I am considering to do the FT a second time. When I was at 6 weeks post op check up, PS said that he had thought that he could fill out my scar tissue/dent area with fat only. Ha! I could have told him before that that wouldn't work. So if I want to try to fix only the scar tissue, it is SEK 15000, and for a second FT including fixing the scar tissue it is SEK 34000. Ah, it is so much money ,but I think I still have a lot of fat to take on my thighs and I would like to fill out the nipple area. It seems like the implants have pressed on the tissue for so many years so it is hard to fill out. But that is jus my own guess. I wish too that I never had put in implants, but on the other hand I really think that I would have done it later in life if I hadn't done it at 19. Hugs

Thanks Winrinda! Well, I did not hate the look of my boobs before FT, but was a little conderned how they would age, guess I would feel better if I was not so scared of getting older. Right now I cannot tell if it was worth it, boos look better than a few days ago but are still very bruised and I'll have to wait to see the unbruised result on both thighs and boobs to tell.

Hi uk32e, thanks for your comment! No, I can not feel any of the capsule while massaging. But when I explanted, it were the implants that I changed in 2010. 3 years ago I changed my old implants and removed the old capsule. After that I felt some hard lumps from the calcified capsule, but it went away by itself in 1,5 years. It was a weird feeling to touch, it was as hard as stone or skeleton pieces, and it showed a little in some angles. In a way it was nice to have new implants to hide the lumps. But now I am really glad that they are gone, both lumps and implants.

Thats good to hear. These are exciting times for you...with your new job and new friends and what sounds like a new you...the real authentic you. It is still very early days but is there any change in your indentation? X

Hi Swedish Mary your message is very promising to me as i have a hard lump in my right breast which is like s rock this is the side where i had cc. So there is still hope for me. Still have issues with scaring stuck to chest wall...for sure i need a revision but have to wait a whole year . Do you have more pics read?

Hi, no unfortunately no change at all in the indentation area. Now when I have started working out more, I really can feel that there is something stuck when I do excercises with arms over my head. It feels and looks like scar or tissue is pulled from inside. But I'll wait another 3 months and see what happens.

Hey rk200 are you going to set up a profile and post some pics ...read on another ladies site you have issues after explant ....not sure if u have same issues as me?

Thanks rk! Well, I think boobies look my age and as they should when I am a mother of 2. I feel natural and it is nice not to worry over surgeries to come. And I am really pleased that I have started to examine myself, I never ever massaged or searched for lumps before as I disliked my boobs so much.

Hi Birdie, thanks, I am so happy if just one single woman out there has been helped of anything in my post or picures! I think if you have started to think of explant, you will do it sooner or later. This community meant the world to me too when I decided to explant, if I had only listened to PSs I would have waited much longer. Boobs are fine, maybe they have filled in a little more on the sides, but it is hard to tell. Maybe I have just got more used to how I look now, I really do not know. In clothes I am all comfortable, I think I look so much better with clothes on now and I have just started to wear under wire bras, not every day though, still in sports bras some days. It is great to be able to wear anything and not draw too much attention to the boob area:) My right boob has still a dent, or a pull from scar or something, it is no difference from a month ago. But it doesn't worry me too much. Happy healing to you, Birdie and thanks for your nice comment! Best wishes