Hello, I had a breast augmentation done 5 years ago. I got pregnant a year later, and breasts where fine. I'm going on my 2nd pregnancy after 4.5 years later, now 8 months pregnant and I noticed a deflate on my left breast. I'm concerned on what I need to do since I'm so far along in my pregnancy, and that I do want to breast feed. I've done some research via internet, but would like some assistance or expert advice. Even advice from those who have experienced this while pregnant.
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Although it would make sense that stretching the skin would cause stretch marks (striae), in fact I have not seen this in my more than 25 yrs of practice and experience with thousands of breast augmentation patients. This however has been reported so is a very uncommon to rare occurrence. What...
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I am sorry that your implants got infected. How someone gets an infection is complicated. It depends on many factors such as your immune system, your overall health, the healing process just to name a few. It is difficult to tell how you are healing with this picture and only one...
This is definitely an unusual situation and could represent a chronic seroma or a sub-clinical infection.
I agree with all of the plastic surgeons that have already answered this question that you should see a board certified plastic surgeon as soon as possible. Most likely the implant will...
