After 3 kids the skin on my stomach had a life of its own. Found wearing anything fitting terrifying with my lovely bulge hanging around.It made exercising uncomfortable, and as for jogging..... I could feel my skin flapping around under my tights! Also my pelvic floor was shot , which was another embarrassment. My muscle seperation was huge. More than 10 cm and therefor had bad posture and no core strength:( tried gym and other parts of my body responded but my stomach pretty much stayed the same. Sooooo went in for tt with muscle repair nearly 4 wks ago. Best thing I've done 4 myself( although I didn't feel like that the 1st week) won't lie . Recovery is tough and slow. I found it not to be overly painful and was on only Panadol by day 2 , but was in general bloody uncomfortable! Tight feeling improved within a week and it day by day got easier to move about and do toilet run. Prob spent about 2 wks resting in bed. So lucky I had help from hubby , mum and friend. The two wks that followed were much easier. Feel like I'm almost back to my old self now and lovin it. My surgeon and results are nothing but fantastic. Ps told me to come in a few days after coming home from hospital because my drain stopped working and I thought I had a seroma . I did have a small one but ps said it would resolve itself which it did within a week . Scar is nice and even, pretty low and neat. Would recommend my ps yo anyone living in brisbane. He was approachable, honest, calm and came with a huge amount of experience( I did a lot of research before deciding who to use) plus he did a wonderful job ! Can't wait to c my end results.!!!
I have been reading reviews on realself in my spare time for so long now, and have found them so helpful, that I thought I would add my own. I have tuberous, asymmetrical breasts (one a B, one probably a AA - its basically a mosquito bite!) that have effected me emotionally since puberty, and I dont want to live the rest of my life feeling deformed, having to be conscious of it all the time, nervous about swimming/special events/getting naked in front of someone. There aren't that many reviews that deal with tuberous breasts, or asymmetrical breasts, so here's my experience ^_^ Selecting a doctor/procedure: I chose Dr Jenkins. He's really experienced (he's 60 or so), and also is really nice and supportive. I was expecting some mean, harsh doctor type from Nip/Tuck (tv show) but he was really kind. ...Except when he said bluntly, "you have a deformity..." hahaha but hey, they've got to be honest. Procedure: At first I just wanted implants, but after talking to my Dr and also researching online, I realise that's a terrible idea. If you have tuberous breasts and then put in implants, all thats going to do is make your tubey breasts longer and even more tubey, or have the double bulge look where the implant sits on top. I definitely need to have a reconstruction as well. I thought they were only for people who'd had their breasts removed, but what they do is they kind of rearrange where the breast tissue sits within the breast, so its not all bulging around the nipple, which is what causes the tubular look. So its a breast reconstruction and implant. I thought I could just get one done, or one reduced, but again, after talking to my doctor, researching i realise that that would look ridiculous! I would have one perky circular breast and one tubey one. Symmetry is what i'm aiming for. So it has to be both. As for the type of implant... I've been reading a lot of conflicting reports around silicone vs saline (fat grafts would be better touch-wise, but my mum thinks it just poses more risks and heard some horror story about it once and is completely against it, and I respect her opinion - mother knows best). Some people say saline is softer and more natural looking, some say the reverse. I lean towards silicone just because it won't rupture, and the highly detailed reviews I've read all seem to use silicone, so I would be comforted by that. I think after I get the surgery I will be really angsty, which is why I'm going to rely on what I've read in detail and use that for comfort. For shape, I love the teardrop boob look, it looks so nice - so when I heard of teardrop implants I was really keen. But apparently they're not a good decision for tubular breasts. Something to do with when you reconstruct the breast you have a pocket thats more likely to mean the implant could rotate (and if its round that doesn't matter). So I'll just trust my doctor on that one, and hope that with the rearranging of the breast tissue I won't get a soccer ball look haha As for size, I'm too embarrassed to do the rice bowl thing just yet, I blush just thinking about it, but so far thinking something in the 300cc range (theres probably a 100cc difference between the two sisters, so like, 225 and 325cc or something. Who knows. I'd like a large C in the end ...but everyones idea of cup sizes are different, before researching about boob jobs I had no idea that cup sizes were so odd/useless. For incision, I would probably go for the fold incision, (inframammary incision) because the idea of going through the nipple grosses me out so much (and would prefer scars that are hidden, because I dont scare very well). However if they have to go through the areola for the reconstruction that's fine with me - I don't really have any sensitivity there anyways, and with my kind of tuberous breast/lack of breast tissue I will probably be unable to breast feed anyways :'( (same thing happened to my mum) so there's no real loss, other than potentially having purple nipples for a month, which terrifies me and the idea of it. I'll just have to have a cup of concrete if that happens... I'll keep updating this. I'm yet to tell my boyfriend of 18 months that I want to get them done.... I dont know how he'll react! Hopefully well, he has seen them so I'm sure he will understand how hard it is for me (how does he tolerate them?! haha).
