Is Exercising Changing my Implants?

Rippling after breast augmentation is due to a decreased amount of your own breast tissue covering the implant. Silicone implants under the muscle decreases the chance of rippling in very thin women with little breast tissue and fat. If rippling still occurs, fat grafting helps thicken the breast tissue over the implant and decrease the amount of rippling.

You may be decreasing your body fat by working out, which is in turn decreasing the fatty tissue in your breasts that is covering your implants. This makes your implants show more, increasing the risk of visible rippling. However, just in case you may want to see your surgeon to rule out deflation. Best of luck.

Increased visibility of implant rippling can be because of two causes:  First is loss of overlying fat (and you did mention that you are working out and thus you'd loose some fat).  Second would be loss of implant volume such as in a leak or rupture.   If you are concerned you should see your plastic surgeon again.

Sincerely,

Martin Jugenburg, MD

You have had the breast augmentation operation that will result in the least amount of visible rippling: silicone gel implants placed under the pectoralis muscles.

However, all implants ripple to some extent. If you are developing increased rippling it is likely because you are losing body fat (including some breast fat) and there is less of YOU to conceal your implants.

I generally advise my patients to try to forget they ever had the operation, and to do the activities they want.You can almost certainly hide the rippling when you need to with appropriate clothing.

It is highly unlikely that the exercise has anything to do with the fact that you now seeing rippling.  You are likely seeing rippling because the implants are settling and the swelling has resolved.  You had very little breast tissue to begin with so there is minimal soft tissue coverage which puts you at a higher risk of implant visibility- thus rippling. Sorry!