My husband and I have both had procedures done by the lovely and talented Dr. Huang. She was a absolute delight through the entire process. She's extremely kind, gentle, thorough, knowledgeable and VERY skilled. Should I ever have a need for a surgeon within the scope of her work, she will absolutely be who I would choose.
Dr Huang did an amazing job on my surgery. I had a previous reconstructive surgery, 5 years post DCIS lumpectomy from another surgeon. My breasts turned out fine from the surgery, but my left nipple was huge, around 3-4 times bigger than my right nipple! Horrible looking. Like a car with one headlight out. After letting the first doctor try and fix my nipple 2 times post surgery with no improvement, I consulted with Dr Huang. She is very humble, and downplays expectations for end result, but over delivers in the end. She did an amazing job and I am so pleased with the result. She also had to fix a botched up micro liposuction of my abdomen from the other doctor. (He had wanted to transfer fat to my breast that had DCIS and radiation.) Big mistake! He removed too much fat, (I'm thin to begin with), and left me with dents on my tummy. They were so bad you could see them through shirts. I always had a nice flat stomach, after this it looked freakish. Dr Huang fixed this as well. She is amazing! The cost I put in includes the anesthesiologist as well. Luckily insurance paid for most of it.
I got a TT and Lipo done 2 years ago and that gave me a big boost of starting excersizing. The more I excersize the more I noticed that my breast is flattening. I am very scared of implants. I always been, but at this point, I don't see any other way to make them look perkier and fuller on the top. My hubby was against it but I manage to convince him over time. Finally last week I had 2 different consultations. The first one with one of my coworker dr that had a breast lift recently and a 2nd one with my original dr. Who did my TT. The 1st dr just told me that I needed an anchor lift. I asked him about implants and he just answered that I didn't need one. My dr measure my chest. She spent over an hr discussing my options and she told me that I wouldn't be happy with just a lift. She remainded me why I went with her to begin with, by been patient and explaining everything that I wanted to discussed. So I decided that she is the one and booked the surgery for 9/4. I told the surgery coordinator that I didn't know if I wanted just a lift or an implant as well and she told me that she was going to book it for all and to call them as soon as I decided. I came home and I told my hubby about the consult, and he wasn't very trilled about it. Anyway, I left it as that and at the next day he asked me how much if you get implants. So I told him that it was about $2000 more than the lift and he said, just do it but go a little larger. Lol! So with that in mind, I'm in a better place and I think I'm going with implants as well. Silicon mentor, but I haven't discuss the size, so I'll do that on my pre op. My family will not know until after, and so most of the people I know. Only him and 3 girls at work know. Ill tell everybody else after the fact, so they Dont give me unsolicited advised. I just took pic to post my review and what a shock I got by looking at my breast!!!! Updated on 2 Aug 2015: I wish I would've schedule it sooner! I'm dying to get them done and still have to wait 33 more days! I'm not sure if I should loose weight. Does anybody gone through that? I wish I could loose 7 lb before surgery. That would be my ideal weight... 130! Any advise whether this matter or not? I'm still exercising but since is summer, I'm all over the place with kids and gatherings. Is real hard to focus. I also have lots going on at work. The only thing that I'm looking forward is the surgery. Updated on 5 Sep 2015: Hi guys! I got my surgery yesterday's morning at 7:30. Got out of the facility around12:30sh. Everything went smoothly. Everyone was really nice. The anesthesiologist was really nice. I woke up to a360cc's. The dr said that this was more than what she wanted to put on me. I was out of it pretty much all day yesterday and couldn't completely wake up. Now I'm up and laying on my wedge pillow. My husband has been helping getting up cause I can't do Tibet myself. Does anybody has a trick on that? I need to be able to mobilize myself in the middle of the night, and I don't know how. Any advice? Ill try updating more picts tomorrow depending on how I feel Updated on 6 Sep 2015: 2 days po and what an improvement. I been sleeping at 45 degree angle and icing since yesterday. My chest is not longer compressed and sternum not longer hurting. I also went to Walmart and bought another surgical bra to wear while i wash that one they gave me. I did up It up a size and it also goes higher on my chest and lower on my back. What a difference!!! I just woke up And I took half of Valium, so will see how it goes. I'm Very mobile already. So yay! I'll keep you guys posted. Oh I also did some deep breathing excersices and it felels so much better to be able to raise up my chest and be able to breath! Updated on 6 Sep 2015: My hubby and kids left for a little while so I could rest longer. I woke up and decided to take a shower by myself. I washed my hear, got dressed and even put a tank top overt head. I hope I'm not overdoing it cause I'm been very cautious and slow but I feel fine. This am started to go from full norco and Valium to half of each every 4 hrs alternatively. Updated on 7 Sep 2015: This is the before and after pic. I'm still very swollen but definitely a big improvement. I'll keep you guys post it. Updated on 10 Sep 2015: I just got home from the dr and she took the clear tape out. My breast looks amazing! I know I have a long wait to go still but I'm happy with the way the scars are looking so far. Updated on 10 Sep 2015: The space by my sternum is still very swollen. I'm anxious to see how my cleavage will looks like. Kind of nervous! Updated on 20 Sep 2015: Hi guys, sorry I took me so long to post. I lost my grandma a week ago and I had to fly out of the country a week after my surgery. I went light but the flight, the drive, the service and all the arrangements we did torn me apart. I losty flight on the way back after taking several trains traying to make it to the airport. The day after I landed I call my dr cause I was dying of Breast pains. I end up with a small hematoma on my right breast. She said we will wait and see if it resolves itself. I only stayed at home for that day and we had to leave cause we got evacuated from our house due to asbestos. We had to hotel hop until this morning. We are back home thank God but we have no floor, no stove and no fridge. I guess when ppl said when it does rain it poors. But anyway, overall I feel that my scars are healing wonderful and I feel awesome. I really though my breast really hurts bad in the morning after I wake up, even though I been sleeping on my wedge pillow. Does anybody else experience that? When does it get better? Advise? Updated on 27 Sep 2015: What a difference a week makes. All the scabs all almost gone and the incisions are healing nicely. I have a lil of asymmetry but the dr thinks that it's just what we started with. I'm happy and I barely noticed the difference between one to the it her. I think I still have way to go so I don't want to put that much thought into it. I'll try to be patient and wait for the final result. So far, I feel happy!
