Anna Raurell, LMS, FRCSEd, FRCS(Plast)

I’m a 32 y/o female who has, since I was about 18 years old, wanted a breast reduction. At the time of my reduction, I was a 30J with asymmetry of around 2 cup sizes.

I booked in for a consultation with Anna in 2021 when services were starting to re-open. I knew that I wanted a local surgeon, and a woman if I could. While I couldn’t find much about Anna online in terms of reviews, her areas of speciality spoke for themselves. The Park Hospital is clean, welcoming, and my consultation filled me with realistic expectations (and excitement!). Anna carried out a check of my breasts, discussed what my ideal outcome would be, and then showed me some of her previous work. She was honest, direct, and professional. I left with my name on her waiting list.

Due to the surgical backlog, it was August 2022 before a slot became available in December. It was perfect timing and I jumped at the opportunity.

The Park Hospital staff were so lovely, and looked after me well, while the rooms were clean, comfortable, and well-equipped.

I was first in on the day, so no waiting around - I took a photo at 8:07 in my gown ready to go, and was awake enough to send one to my partner at 13:21 post-surgery! Everyone from the surgical secretary to the admissions staff, pre-op, to the anaesthetist and Anna herself were professional and lovely to deal with. Personally I experienced no pain following surgery, just a bit of discomfort which is to be expected. Staying in overnight was the best thing - and the staff looked after me so well, keeping my paracetamol topped up, and fed and watered.

I’m now just under two months post-op, healing so well, and so, so happy with the outcome! I’ve gone from a J to a D cup and couldn’t be happier. Anna’s work is pristine; neat, tidy, and I’ve had no issues or complications with healing at all. I would not hesitate to recommend Anna to anyone considering a similar procedure.

I thought I'd start reviewing early so I could express my feelings and emotions about the whole process.
I am booked in for a full consultation with Anna raurell at the Nottingham woodthorpe hospital England on the 2nd of February. I made this appointment yesterday after considering a few surgeons and company's, i had so many emotions before going to sleep last night and fount it very hard to sleep realising that this journey is about to start that I've been wanting since I was very young.
Let me explain myself before anyone starts judging me and my age.
All through out my child hood I have been over weight, at the total of 14st at the age of 13 I was quite big and was a uk women's size 22!

When I was in secondary school I started to get bullied. It would be from all sorts of people for no reason and most the time I wouldn't even know them. It would be people younger than me shouting hey fatty and throwing pens at me in the corridor to people in my year and that I knew calling me tree trunk legs. I used to go to the teachers crying my eyes out every lunch and all the could say to me was ignore them and old me to be on my way which I couldn't understand. They was people that I was supposed to look up to and go to for guidance and then telling me to be on my way when I was braking my heart made the bullying a lot harder for me. I never told my mum or dad about this and just refused to go to school, I got to the end of year 8 which is the second year of secondary school and my mum pulled me out of school to be home tutored, my uncle who we was very very close with was diagnosed with a stage 4 brain tumour our whole family's world broke but we pulled together!. I wouldn't speak to anyone or make contact with anyone I just became this frail little girl so I new it was time to do something about it something to take my mind of the bullying and my poorly uncle of which we was living at his house to take car of his children so my auntie would live at hospital with him.
I put my self on a healthy eating plan I wouldn't eat no crisps chocolate or any unhealthy food just 3 healthy nutritional meals a day. Not long after I started this I dropped to just 9st loosing 4st of my body fat. I did this as a way to focus on myself and forget about the outside world and it worked, it got me through that tough time. So my mum tried to get me back into school for my final 2 years, year 10 and 11. I was happy to do so thinking the bullying would stop as I took away the main reason for them doing it to me. I was so wrong, they thought up of new names to call me and it would be anything from slag, prostitute, ugly and still fat. No girls would come near me they all hated me which made it so hard because it made me have 0 friends through out school. The only people that would speak to me was the boys which made the bullying worse. People would throw things at my face, lock me in cupboards so I couldn't get out to lesson. Talking about me loudly to the whole class knowing I was sat right behind them which made me feel so small. Girls would barge into me as they walked past me I was so lonely. I would again go home on the bus crying my eyes out, then there was one day my mum was on that same bus I got on not knowing she was there. She promised me from there on I would never have to go back.
6 years on and 21 years old I'm happy with myself I've kept the weight off for 7 years just eating abnormal diet. I managed to find friends that love me and I have a partner whom I have been with for 3 years who I love from the bottom of my heart, he is my soul mate! We've just had our first child together who is 6 months old and we are about to move into our own home we have just brought to start our life's together.
The bullying has scared me for life and as I see it the saggy skin on my tummy is the remainder of the past I'd like to remove forever. I want to feel pretty and confident and I don't feel like I can have that until that part of my life's been removed.

Sorry for my long story!