I just got home from my BA surgery with Dr. Price.
I did 3 consultation appointments with him pre op (I wanted to be thorough), and from the first appointment he said that my breast implants will be in the range of 325 - 375 cc. I have a rather wide chest and rib cage, so I was wanting to balance out my proportions and fill that space. I don't have children, but I felt that my breasts lacked volume and were a bit saggy. I already had some stretch marks from gaining some weight in college. I am 23 years old, 5'5, and around 140-145 lbs.
4 hours post op I am feeling okay. There is definitely soreness/tightness and pressure. I am afraid to examine them much at the moment so I'm just going to rest up and leave them alone.
My final size was 375 cc moderate plus profile (in order to have the width needed to fill my chest). I chose mentor silicone implants after teetering back and forth between saline and silicone. The hope of a more natural look and feel long term is what pushed me toward silicone. Dr. Price prefers saline, but hopefully I made the right decision for me! My incisions are inframammary.
I will post photos and updates as I move through my recovery! So far it is going pretty smoothly aside from some nausea and vomiting from the anesthesia.
Fingers crossed that they end up symmetrical, fairly close together, and free of any issues! Excited to see the drop and fluff happen in a few months. I'm going to try really hard not to be bothered by how they may look initially this week. :)
Updated on 18 Aug 2020:
So far the recovery has been good. Day 1 and 2 post op I was very loopy and tired from the prescribed pain meds and the anesthesia. I was very nauseous the day of surgery and the day after, I couldn’t keep most foods down aside from jello on day 2. By day 3 I was feeling tremendously better, and now on day 4 I have completely stopped taking any pain meds (even ibuprofen/Tylenol). I ice my breasts a few times a day. They already seem to be dropping the tiniest bit and softening. Pain is minimal, but the bra is uncomfortable at times since the band sits close to my incisions. The swelling has gone down some. Initially the left breast was much more swollen than the right. The picture I’m posting is from day 2 post op! I think I am going to like my results a lot once they drop and fluff and I am feeling mobile and good again!
Updated on 8 Sep 2020:
God bless Dr. Price!! I wasn’t sure about my results the first couple weeks because the girls were riding high and, although I liked the shape and proportions, they seemed very foreign on my body. Had a mini meltdown 1 week post op when I felt they were too big and that it looked like I had “cow utters”. Lol.
I’m now 3.5 weeks post op and they just keep dropping and fluffing more and more. They have even softened up quite a bit in just 3 weeks. I am so so happy with the results and can’t wait to see how they continue to change in the coming weeks.
I haven’t had any issues so far. I haven’t had any pain or discomfort since week one, really. I have been taking it easy (not lifting anything too heavy) and massaging them religiously because I would hate to displace his good work somehow. I have gone out a few times in a tank top with no bra which probably isn’t great.. but other than that I’ve been sticking to the doctor’s orders! I couldn’t have asked for a better result. I’m a very picky person who researched breast implants into the ground, and I all I can say is that I’m very glad I went with Dr. Price.
Updated on 24 Nov 2020:
I have now been working out since week 6 post op and I can do pretty much any workout. I don’t really attempt any chest exercises (like bench) and hanging things (toes to bar and pull-ups) still feel uncomfortable. Other than that I have no issue going to CrossFit or F45 classes. I find the animation deformity (from the implant sitting under the muscle) when I flex my pec to be strange, but I just try not to flex my boobs while naked so I don’t have to see it lol. My only complaint is that my scars don’t sit perfectly in the crease, and one scar is higher (more noticeable placement) than the other. I am posting pictures of the scars. I’m hoping they will fade. Sometimes I wonder if going with saline implants would have been the smarter option so that the scars would be smaller and placed in my armpit, but overall I am very happy with my results and wouldn’t change anything. My breasts are slightly firm (more so than natural breasts) and don’t feel exactly “real,” but I’m hoping they will also continue to soften up.
Updated on 6 Mar 2022:
Thought I would post an update now that it has been a little over a year and a half since my surgery. Since then I gained 15lbs which caused some stretch marks. I've now lost about 7 lbs and have used tretinoin to try to fade the stretch marks. They are probably mostly here to stay but it isn't a huge deal. I did feel like my implants made me look "bigger" after gaining weight, but that is to be expected.
I did CrossFit for about a year after getting implants and had no issues, but I would skip bench day and would modify workouts with push ups and pull ups (would do ring rows instead).
I still love my implants aside from not being able to do chest dominant exercises. Had I known how strange it would feel, I probably would've gone for over the muscle implants. I now feel like getting into climbing or cross country skiing as a serious hobby is kind of off the table because im afraid of displacing my implants.