After 5 Years of Thinking About It.. 32A to 32D Overnight.. - Albyn hospital, Aberdeen, UK

20 days on, can't believe it's basically 3 weeks since I had my op. It still feels like this is all one big dream and I'll wake up with my pancake boobs.
I am so happy with my progress to date, since my last review I have had little pain, mainly only at bedtime and first thing in the morning. I still take pain relief when I feel like I need it as I don't want to get overly sore but I don't need them half as much as I did for the first 10 days.
Being able to move around in bed a little is helping me so much with sleeping, sleeping on my back was a total nightmare and I am so glad it's over, saying that - my travel pillow was amazing and I actually still use it to this day :-) I think I'm a bit addicted to it.
Driving wise, not going to lie it's a little uncomfortable - I have been sharing a lift to work with my boyfriend as we work at the same company and that has been a great help. Steering and gear change can sometimes be a little painful and at such an early stage in recovery I am just not willing to risk my perfect results. I am going to try and drive to work next week and see how I feel - it's got to happen one day however that day can wait if need be - I'd rather be safe than sorry.
Working is totally fine, I am a Project Administrator and so the majority of my work is at the computer and so not strenuous at all, I am still slightly more tired than usual however I put this down to broken sleep, and an extremely busy period at work right now.
The one thing I am really missing is getting out and about - going running, swimming, horse riding and just generally being active, it's really getting to me however as I mentioned previously I would rather be safe than sorry. I hope I can get back to all my favourite things very soon!

Top tips for my recovery so far would be
- Keep on top of pain relief, don't wait to get sore
- Travel pillow, it's even great for sitting on the sofa watching tv
- Don't over stretch that's how you pull muscles, keep everything in easy reach
- Eat well, you will generally feel better if you eat well, keep up a high protein diet, lots of fruit and vegetables and oily fish for omega 3! Be careful with your fibre intake as pain killers generally make you constipated, you dont really want it getting worse. I have IBS (suspected colitis) and so I know what my body can and cant accept. Learn to listen to your body, it really helps :-)
- Multi-vitamins, and supplements are good. I took one a day multi-vitamins with iron and also hair, skin & nails supplement, I feel like they are well worth it.
- Make sure you have a drink by your bedside, and adequate pain relief as I personally experienced broken sleep, and having meds available at my bedside was great, was easier to drift off as still in the dark. I feel as though once you get up turn on lights and stuff your mind becomes alert and it becomes more difficult to wind down.
- Don't be afraid of your new assets, I was a little scared to even touch mine for the first 10 days, mainly because I felt like it wasnt really happening. I now massage mine around the top and sides (not the incision scars yet as they are not healed) and it's a great feeling, it also helps with the circulation and re-activating the skin sensitivity lost during the stretching of the skin when the implant is placed.
- DO BE PROUD, don't listen to anyone else. If you are happy that's all that matters! I have had a few people stereo-typically saying to me 'oh i thought they would have been massive' and so on.
Quite frankly I feel that this is 'massive' for me, I went from flat chested to a C/D cup overnight, it is a massive change and it's also what I wanted. Who cares about anyone else, they dont have to look at them!

Hope that's given you all some tips :-)

If anyone would like any questions answered I will happily assist, just message me

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Feeling much better now. Still getting some pain mainly from my right side and mainly in the mornings. I've been able to sleep half on my side which has helped my sleeping so much!
Im still taking dehydricodine but try only to take them in the morning and before bed.. seems to be going ok just now.
Posted up some pictures from the past few days, so happy with how they are coming on, personally I think they look fab :-)

Still experiencing some pain mostly in the mornings and predominantly from my right boob but im getting there with some pain meds etc
I was supposed to be back to work yesterday but i havent gone back just yet, i dont feel right enough to go back and im a bit scared with the whole driving thing.. I had a drive round my village at the weekend and i really dont feel safe at all, I dont feel confident when braking and steering hurts from my right side, id never forgive myself if something happened so im just gunna lay off the driving a little longer.
I tried on a bikini top i bought last year for after my op and i am so over whelmed that I actually fill it, so happy!