Reconstruction but Didn't Have Cancer -

I feel as if this has become novel that I am writing, and here I go again....

I have been back to my PS and guess what I am hospital bound ....AGAIN!!!
The implant in my left breast has moved and is heading down and towards my underarm.
It needs to be taken out and replaced with another. This time he is going to use a different implant...a brazillian furry, which he says should stay in place. He is also going to move my left nipple again, do a bit of lipo and is cutting out a wedge of skin from my inframammary fold..
We are going away in April, for 6 weeks and my PS is away the end of May into June, so I am booked for my next procedure on the 26th June.
I can push the implant back into place, well sort of, and in a bra, it doesn't look too bad, so I would prefer to wait to get it fixed rather than rush to get it done before we go and not be able to carry suitcases and do the normal tourist type of things....
Guess I will report back after the next operation..

Had my latest surgery 12 days ago and I can say at last I have 2 breasts that are the same size. It has taken nerly 14months and 7 surgeries to get there. :)

On the 17th October I had a nipple reconstruction on my right breast, and on the left breast I had a small implant placed under my muscle (190 ccs),a wedge of skin was removed from the underside of the breast, and once again the breast was sewn down to the ribs, As the implant lifts the actual breast up a little higher my PS is hopeful that this time the breast will not fall/slip under the Inframammary fold... fingers crossed, as I really do not want to have to go through any more surgeries, especially as next time it will be a mastectomy and expander put in and going through all that process again and then the change over to an implant....

My left breast is still very sore, and I am wearing a soft cup bra to help to keep the breast in the correct position. At the moment the 2 breasts do look different. The right is very rounded, and the left more pointy, but they are the same size and my PS is hoping the left one will round out a little as it heals. But you know what,.... I really do not care, as they look the same with a bra on and you cannot tell any difference at all. Plus there will only ever be my husband and myself who will see them.....At my age don't think I will ever go skinny dipping....or topless lol.

Owww.... forgot to say Iam really happy with the nipple reconstruction...it looks so good. Have decided (for the moment anyway) not to have any tattooing done as I have lost all the pigmentation in my left nipple, and they would both have to be done anyway. Once again no one is going to see them, so I am thinking why bother....

At the moment I am really quite happy, but I do need to wait a few months to see how they settle down.....
Will be back later to let you know how I get on...

Visited my PS was yesterday. The right breast implant is looking fabulous, and I love how it just sits there looking so perky... but we are still not happy with the left breast....my own.
Even after being sewn down to my ribs it has still slipped back to where it used to be when I was an "H" cup... not good at all. After a long talk with the PS, we came up with two options, first was to try again with sewing it down, plus he would take away a wedge of skin from the underside of the breast. This breast needs a small implant as well so that would be put in as well. Second option is to do a skin/nipple sparing mastectomy, and do a full reconstruction, starting with placing an expander under the muscle (exactly what was done to the right breast.)

I am so happy with the right breast I was very tempted to go with the second option straight away, but my husband is not so sure, so we are going with option number one. My right breast is also having a nipple reconstruction, so it will be another reasonably big operation for me.
I am having this done on 17th October.

My PS has said if things do not turn out well, and I am not happy, then perhaps next year we can do the mastectomy option, so I know I have that up my sleeve if needed.
I have to say if I knew all this when my breast reduction went wrong, I don't think I would have worried so much about saving the left breast, and should have had a mastectomy straight away, then both breasts would be at the same stage......What a wonderful thing retrospect is...

Just want to say though I am still happy I had the reduction done, and would still do it again, even knowing what has happened to me. I really, really hated my big boobs, the backaches, neckaches and headaches, and love being a "C"cup now. In a bra my boobs look good, and I get a lot of compliments..... they just cannot see what they are like without a bra on....lol

I am starting to wander if this is ever going to be over.......