What is the recovery time for breast implant removal with a lift?

Breast implant removal and lift is surgery, and your body does require time to heal.  Most women can resume full activities in about 6 weeks, including heavy lifting and swimming.  Many can return to work at one week if their job does not involve much travel or heavy lifting.  I would suggest meeting with a board certified plastic surgeon and discussing your concerns.

Breast implant removal with a lift should be a very straight forward simple recovery.  The pain should be minimal to none and you can be back driving and doing normal routine activities within a few days.  Main thing is to see a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon who performs a lot of implant removal surgery.  Best of luck to you

A combined implant removal with a breast lift usually
has a very straightforward and relatively easy recovery. Generally, the
recovery is easier than the initial augmentation.

Recovery from a breast lift is often fairly straight forward as a breast lift is primarily skin and fat (no muscle or bone involvement).  An implant removal and breast lift will therefore be the same since breast implant removal does not disturb any new tissue.All the best,Dr. Remus Repta

The recovery after breast implant removal tends to be easier and faster than the initial surgery. The timeframe for you can be best determined by your surgeons as he or she has had the benefit of examining you and understands your medical history.

This type of surgery will be much simpler to recover from than your initial surgery, especially if the implants were placed below the muscle. A breast lift is a skin only based surgery so it is not that uncomfortable. You still will need to restrict your strenuous activities to let things heal just as in any type of surgery. Your surgeon can instruct you on this.

In most instances, even when we have to remove the capsules, the recovery time for these procedures is no longer than the original procedure.  Sometimes I will use drains in such procedures, and those are typically in place upward to a week.  Most ladies are back to their normal light daily routine by a week after these procedures, and within a month to six weeks they are back to full normal activities.  I suggest you have a consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon experienced in revision breast surgery so that you can find out your specific options and get detailed information about the recovery process.  Good luck.

In most cases the recovery is quite easy.  It does depend on the location and condition of the implants to some extent.  For instance if you have bilateral capsular contracture and ruptured silicone implants you will need a bilateral capsulectomy with the implant removal. Thankfully this is not the rule, and most implants (saline or silicone) are very easily removed. In most cases a breast lift can be performed at the same time the implants are removed.  

The pocket is already dissected in this case and the exchange could be easier except if capsule work need to be done. The lift depends on the degree os breast ptosis. 

Generally speaking, removal of breast implants and mastopexy surgery is associated with a relatively quick/painless recovery (compared to the initial breast augmentation procedure), assuming no complications. Most important in your decision-making will be careful selection of your plastic surgeon;  good advise/judgment and careful execution of the procedure will be key.  You may find the attached link, dedicated to breast implant removal concerns, helpful to you as you learn more. Best wishes.