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Implant removal 4yr old 425cc 28 no kids

UPDATED FROM TheTiny87
6 days post

6 days post explant - feeling great!!

TheTiny87
$150
So it's been 6 days since the procedure to remove my 4 yr old 425cc high profile silicone Mentor implants. I am LOVING sleeping on my stomach, the weight of them being gone from my torso is noticeable immediately, they are very empty and flopping and saggy but I have noticed improvements daily. I am taking collagen, biotin, coconut oil, fenugreek, and using a topical collagen builder cream. I'm spending time getting to know my new old body and massaging and examining. It's helping me reconnect with my breasts in a way I haven't been able to over the past four years. I'm gaining sensation back in my dead breast (righty) and the sensation in my left breast is back to normal and not overly sensitive. It's crazy what the body can do. I can't wait to watch them progressively get better over the next 6 months to a year.

TheTiny87's provider

Tina Smith, M.D.

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon

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August 15, 2016
You are lucky to have some breasts left. I have nothing, nipples and skin, Cant wait to re-impant! Your implants were pretty big, kind of like mine but I didn't have the health problems you experienced.
August 15, 2016
Can you please post a pic of the things you are useing
August 15, 2016
All of my vitamins that I am taking are Nature's Bounty: Collagen, Coconut Oil, Prenatal Vitamin, Biotin, and Vitamin E oil. The topical collagen support youth builder is by Murad. They are all easily found at the grocery store, Walmart, or online.
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August 16, 2016
There are also products specifically for the breast at: Infusion Breast Care Botanicals. I ordered the Geranium Rose Breast & Décolleté Recovery Serum for my pre-op and they have other post of items. It is a great web site
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August 15, 2016
Wonderful! Congrats :)
August 15, 2016
Who performed the explant? En bloc? I'm sorry if you already answered these questions...
August 15, 2016
Dr. Tina Smith with Kaiser Permanente in California. The procedure was covered by my health insurance.
August 16, 2016
Hi did you get the capsule removed also? You are looking fabulous!
August 16, 2016
My doc said the capsule (scar tissue pocket) was so thin, it would have caused more harm to my pectoralis muscle and chest wall to cut it out. She took a small bit of it from each breast to biopsy and culture, but otherwise, left the rest to shrink and settle.
UPDATED FROM TheTiny87
Day of treatment

32C - 32DD - 32C After surgery pics: removal of 4yr silicone 425cc high profile implants

TheTiny87
Yikes!!! I haven't really felt them much yet because every time go to do it, I get super light headed and nauseas. I'm in a little bit of pain at the incision site that's it. Now I'm researching supplements to go buy.

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August 10, 2016
You look Great!!!! I hope your pain heals now and you feel better!
So Happy your doing well- hugs! Did you have capsules out too?
August 10, 2016
Thank you!! they are so empty and stretched out and saggy haha but I will give myself some time to let the skin retract. I hope they look the same as they did before my breast augmentation.
August 10, 2016
Oh, and they were going to remove the capsule but the doc said I had barely any scar tissue so she didnt feel the need to remove it because otherwise she would be causing more damage by cutting into fresh tissue.
August 10, 2016
You look great- time to heal is important - 6-12 months to really know. But your looking fine ! Xxxxooo
August 10, 2016
Yes it's a harder taking out capsule. My PS told me yesterday he wouldn't have removed it if I hadn't insisted on it- but then lab report showed chroic inflammation in both breast. I wish I'd sent to second lab because he uses this one and some labs better. Having auto immune diseases and then hot, swollen painful breast for 3 yrs I needed it all out. I knew something was terribly wrong as my team of new doctors advised complete removal. Interesting that my PS really doesn't " like" explant anyway, but had acknowledged that he sees other women with implants have issues like mine then, he will remove them... Interesting that only after I have issues & backed by other specialties doc's then I was told there's still many women having implant induced auto immune responses. I know some without health issues do well with capsules left in, I'm told. I'm glad your one of them !! Big Higs!
August 10, 2016
You look great,congrats!
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August 10, 2016
Wow you look fantastic!... You've got tons of tissue and look beautiful natural!... There's a problem with your boyfriend if he's got any issues, lol... [RS bleep] take extreme care of yourself! [RS bleep]
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August 16, 2016
There are also products specifically for the breast at: Infusion Breast Care Botanicals. I ordered the Geranium Rose Breast & Décolleté Recovery Serum for my pre-op and they have other post of items. It is a great web site
UPDATED FROM TheTiny87
Day of treatment

So ITCHY

TheTiny87
Holy crap I am so incredibly itchy all over after waking up from surgery!! Lord help me to not tear apart my skin!!

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August 10, 2016
Yikes, allergy to tape?... Or detox? My exsma went away day of Explant! ;) [RS bleep] hope it settles for you!
August 12, 2016
That's great about exsma clearing up- that's an auto immune disease many don't know that and now big pharma offer many drugs auto immune suppressants on TV ads same meds as RA , Lupus and carry huge risk of on going infection and some cancer risk as well as organ damage long term- as stated on warning LABLEs it's also not so rare side effects. I bet implants triggered it or triggered it to get worse while body was fighting off the forgien implants.
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August 12, 2016
Oh wow that's so fascinating!...makes sense, when body is under pressure starts attacking too much?... I have giant stretch marks on my boobs and belly and hips and butt from taking steroid creams while pregnant (I waited till after first 12 weeks of development but I was getting no sleep scratching myself raw n bleeding from head to toe! :(... That child has grown and is ok thank goodness!...) Anyway, I've had an itchy scap lately and exsma on my eye and chin/neck area!... Natropath said throat is where a lot of glands are, and so I think it may be part of poisons coming out... I spat out yellow stuff every morning and I want sick so not phlem it was different, and a weird taste in my mouth the first month after Explant... I'm wondering if glands or lymph were ridding it from my brain through my sinuses...let's face it, we are miraculously designed to remove poisons through whichever avenue possible!...so I wouldn't be surprised! ...it's stopped now, and so did my aching ovaries and heavy periods, which my natropath said the body will use to remove poison too through menstruation! Wow I didn't know that! So I'm buzzing about our Fathers design of us!!...just wish I'd appreciated his love for me in the first place instead of dwelling on some horrible humans opinions of my form aye! ;) [RS bleep] hope you have a great day n just remember might be some rough ones in the mix, but generally even if it's two steps forward then one back at first as the body tries to cope during detoxing it's still heading away from poison land, and on to better healthier times for all of us! :) [RS bleep] take care! Love and hugs! [RS bleep]
August 12, 2016
If right out of surgery with itchy , please look into meds given- morphine is well known as other opioid medications used for surgery pain, it's a side effect or allergy - why during surgery they often treat with benadrly allergy meds for surgery too
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August 12, 2016
I had the same reaction after surgery and it was the morphine they were giving me for pain so they stopped it.