So I have been on this site for probably 2 weeks before I got my BA and I wanted to finally share my story. I am 25yrs old 5'5 115 pounds and had my surgery on May 20th, 2013. I come from a family of women with VERY large natural breasts and I seem to have been skipped somehow. I started off around a 34A and was spending so much money on bras/ bathing suits & Clothing for the past 10 years that would give me something in the boob area that I probably could have paid for a BA 3 times over. I have talked about getting this procedure done for years with my boyfriend and finally one day I was doing one of my clients hair and she gave me her plastic surgeons name and number. I handed it to my boyfriend that evening and said "I think it is time to do this". He was a little hesitant at first because he didn't want me walking around looking like a fake and noticeable was supportive and was behind me 100% when I told him I made an appt. So I made an appt 2 days later with 2 different plastic surgeons and mentally prepared myself to literally show my boobs to someone besides my boyfriend.(I made it to one plastic surgeon and He was DEF the one) I had my First Consultation with Dr. Wendall Smoot on Friday May 3rd 2013 and with my boyfriend in tow we chose the size & date as well as paid the down payment all in one easy consultation. Since my boyfriend was paying for this entire thing he had a huge part in helping me chose the size because me being me I wanted bigger because I was used to smaller.... and he wanted reasonable with my body size and best for me. So I got measured and checked out and we decided that If Dr. Smoot could fit 400cc Silicone Mod+ in both breasts then that was what we were doing. About 4 days later I went for consultation number 2 to get blood work, prescription (Just percocets), and questions answered (thanks to this website I didn't have many) and payment completed and was sent home and told to come back in 2 weeks at 6:20AM on May 20th for a 7am procedure. Dr Smoot is the head of plastic surgery for UCSD in Southern California and I was so sold on his pictures and reviews among other things and he is known as the natural breast doctor. He will not make any of his plastic surgery patients look fake and he tells you if you want to go huge and fake looking go somewhere else because thats not what he does. SO COMFORTING!! A couple days before surgery I went and bought myself a few things from target like ice packs, a heating pad for my back, some fuzzy socks to wear into surgery, some easy cook lunch meals, a new throw blanket for the couch and went to Victoria Secret and bought myself a new cute zipper front sweatshirt/sweat pants outfit so i would feel confident and comfy going in and out of surgery in style :o) DAY OF SURGERY I am not someone that gets nervous or stressed about anything EVER. I take things in stride as they come and live day to day. So I slept normal the night before and got roughly 7-8 hours of sleep and woke up around 5:45am with my boyfriend. We live together and have for over 5 years so he knows how long it takes me to move in the morning especially at that hour and since I didn't have to do anything but shower I jumped in the shower and washed my little babies for the last time. As well as my hair and then was pretty much ready to go. I made sure to bring my blanket and a pillow in the car so I could sleep it off after surgery as well as a just in case throw up bucket and that was it. We got to the doctors office at 6:20am (he does the procedures in the office which I found AMAZING) and I was taken back to the changing area/waiting room 2 min later. The nurse I had gotten to know pretty well from both my consultations came in explained everything to me, had me change, do one last pee and then made sure my boyfriend was going to be okay or had any questions. The Dr came in a couple min later and pulled out that permanent marker and drew on me in only 6 small lines and then I said my tootles to my boyfriend and I was taken to the OR. The Anesthesia guy was there and he told me nothing over my mouth or anything near my head which was great cause i wasn't really looking for a sore throat from the dry air meds to add to my already what I thought would be painful chest. They put warm blankets on my, hooked me up to some monitors, put some what felt like Leg massagers around both my legs and the anesthesia doctor gave me some relaxers. 2 min later he said I would taste a funny metal taste in my mouth which I did and I was out. I remember NOTHING from there until I woke up a hour later wrapped in a warm blanket, sleepy but happy as a clam with my boyfriend looking at me and a nurse asking if I felt okay. I felt pretty good, had some water, and got talked to about what to do and not to do (none of which I remember, but I think they were talking to my boyfriend mainly because they new I was foggy) I remember being told they were going to put my pants on and sweatshirt on and I literally tried to do everything myself and I got scolded. (thats how fine I was feeling I just wanted to dress myself) I got wheeled out to the car, got scolded for trying to put my own dang seatbelt on and trying to close the car door myself then I must have passed out for a couple hours. I woke up in the living room of my apartment in the chair cuddled up in my blanket with the AC Blasting on me because I was so hot with my water bottle. and I was in an out of sleeping all day long so I dont remember much except setting up my side of the bed that night with pillows and my pain meds within reach. I slept pretty good, Got up once to take pain meds and slept until 7am Day 1 post Op My boyfriend left for work at 6AM but before He left he took our dogs outside to pee and made sure I was comfortable and able bodied and then I was left to my own devices all day.. I woke up with that dang morning boob around 8AM, it didn't hurt just stiff boobs. I basically slept sitting up so I didn't have a hard time getting out of bed. I grabbed my pillows and my blanket and made my way to the couch with my little dog excited to just lay all cuddled up all day. I slept a lot that day. really only moved to use the bathroom and get more water. I did not eat anything but some yogurt just to have something. and I took my pain meds twice that day as I was really not in any pain. Day 2 Post op I had to go to my first post op appt. PRETTY POINTLESS.. I had a friend drive me. The doctor really only wanted to make sure I wasn't in any crazy pain and that I looked normal. I had no bruising, just normal numbness and pressure. Nothing I couldn't handle. I went home and slept and watched some TV the rest of that day. Day 3 Post op I don't know If am just weird and luck but I had ZERO problem using the bathroom. I didn't think I would so I never bought any laxatives or anything like that but yeah I think it might just be person to person... no one is the same.. I was not a bloated boat at all.. Day 3 I hoped back on my eating schedule... I actually don't have a schedule I just eat what I want when I want.. I just started eating normally and finally felt like I was coming out of my sleeping beauty coma. I was able to walk my dogs and do a little house work. but again sat on my bum most of the day. Day 4 Post Op I felt normal body and mind wise but My chest was really tight and my boobs felt REALLY tight and hard. Going from an A cup to what I was told was a Big C I expected my skin to be tight so I was ready for this. I started taking just advil cause the pain meds made me high as a kite and LAZY LAZY LAZY and I wanted to be moving. I would get the tightness only right when I would stand up and move or if I was walking around and would stop moving. but it would go away and I would feel fine. Day 5 Post Op So i forgot to mention I took 1000MG vitamin C tablets for 2 weeks before surgery as directed by my surgeon and i am continuing to take them because I feel like they help in a couple way after because my healing has been a breeeeze compared to some of the stories I have read. I wear a sports bra to bed every night and for 8 hrs a day then i go braless and walk around topless in my apartment the rest of the time. I feel like it helps letting them move and breath for a little while. Still no Pain meds. Day 6 Post op Feel 100% Back to normal. I was told not to clean my house or pick up my 11pound dog or anything heavy for that matter but I cleaned a little of my house and my little boo is far to cute not to hold so I have been. Can wait to get to get the tape off my nips to see what they look like. Im posting pictures I promise Updated on 11 Jun 2013: Went to Victoria Secret Im a 34 D.. Updated on 11 Jun 2013: Some days I wish I had gone bigger.. other days I Love them.. All depends on the day. I live in southern california and boobs are normal. I see girls who got high profile implants that are 400cc and they look round and high and very unnatural and they have had them for years so they are not dropping at all and I am glad I didn't go that route... but I also feel like I wish other people could tell I have good size boobs under the shirts!!. I wanted them to be natural and they most certainly look that way in clothing now because I am unable to wear bras right now just lacy bralets and sports bras that do nothing for me. I have put on under wire bras and they look Huge in shirts so in a couple months I will be MUCH happier I know.. Its just a weird feeling to pay so much money and put on a shirt and feel like you look like you did wearing victoria secrets miraculous bra. But I have to keep telling myself I look this way without a bra on and usually a loser fitting shirt... But I LOVE the way they look in bathing suites and just nothing on so I guess thats all that really matters. I love them just naked! I have had an incredibly easy recovery.. I went out and bought heating pads and Ice packs and scar creams and stretch mark creams and all the extra stuff that you read about you should have... I didn't and wont use any of it. The heating pad i use sometimes when I cuddle my little dog.. just because he loves it. but everything else was such a waste and Im kind of kicking myself in the bum for buying them.. I just suggest doing things the way you think your body will heal. If you feel like you are going to have a rough recovery go buy what you think you need. If you are in great shape and feel like you can handle a little bit of pain I would suggest waiting until you absolutely NEED something to go buy it. I am on week 3 and my boobs are soft as can be all day long and the second somebody goes for a good handful of boob (my boyfriend) at the end of the day my muscle protects them and gets a little tight which he hates but they soften up again pretty quick just a funny little thing. My nipples are still healing and are pretty sensitives since thats where my incisions are.. I have to still wear a sports bra to bed because the movement of the sheets makes them achy but hopefully that will end soon. I can not wait for June gloom here in SoCal is over so bathing suit season can start!!! Updated on 21 Jun 2013: So Its now full force bathing suit season here in San Diego and I kept all my bathing suits from before my surgery and I put on an extra small victoria secret triangle top bikini and it fit perfectly.. Like Perfect Coverage on all 3 sides... Like WTH..?? I new i didn't fill it out well before my surgery and now it fits perfectly now that I am supposedly 2-3 cup sizes bigger.. ? That was a really big blow to how I felt about them. I am already having SUPER emotions about wishing I had gone bigger. I am at 4 weeks as of yesterday and I look down and see a B cup and wonder where the heck the rather large 400cc Implant went in my body? I must have a deeper chest cavity because I look semi flat again in sports bras and I am back to hunting for Bras with a little bit of padding in them to make up for the lack of cleavage I have and I can not make that much cleavage no matter what I do to them which is incredibly annoying! My boyfriend also noticed how small they seem. He went with me to my consultation and saw all the sizes on me and we both said 400cc seemed big enough if not to big... How does it just disappear? I went with the bigger size because I started out at 350cc and went with 400cc in both because I was told to go bigger and now bigger isn't big enough... What to do??