24 Implant Revision Downsize from 550cc to 360cc STILL TOO BIG CONSIDERING 2ND REVISION OR EXPLANT

Hey, thanks for replying its so nice to have people to talk to that actually understand how awful it makes you feel! What complications have you had if you dont mind me asking? Yeah im really trying to decide if its worth trying a revision again with a smaller implant or just to get rid, i just dont know if my skin would ever go back after having 550cc for a year and now 360cc. When are you having your revision?

I would love to weigh in if you don't mind.
Your before pictures were nearly perfect. As a recent explant patient, I have seen and talked to SO many women who would give anything to look like you did before your implants. The longer you have them, the worse you'll look when they come out. If you have any questions at all, I'd take them out now. I became very sick from mine, and there are thousands and thousands of women who are sick from their implants. Please check out Breast Implant Illness. There are websites and support groups of all the women suffering from the effects of their implants.

Good luck to you with your decision. Once you've been through what I've been through, original equipment sounds pretty good!

I agree you natural boobs were rockin! I wish o had those! The second revision is a totally different look than the first boob job. Less upper pole and more droop.. I wonder if that is because of the changeout with smaller without lift reduction?! Sorry you did not get the desired result. I am on bj #4 and they get worse every time. Such a bummer

Thank you, I so wish i had never had anything done in the first place. I'm seeing my surgeon on the 12th October so will let him know how upset with size I am then. I really am considering explant and have been reading a lot, I guess im just scared of how I will lool after bing stretched out so much for a year. How are you feeling after your explant?

This is my full story so I know the extent of complications. I've had CC 5 times, and infection, and additional hospitalization for an unknown complication.
As for me, I have permanent nerve damage and pain on my right side as well as a swollen lymph node by the armpit. I have silicone but on the right side my skin is so thin from all of the surgeries that if I lean over you can see the whole outside of the implant and feel it. It looks almost like saline but it's just because I don't have much left to cover that implant. Condensed version. My initial boob job above muscle. Developed minor capsular contracture on both sides. 2yrs later went to different doctor and went from 400 to 550cc under the muscle. Within a month or so developed severed CC (Capsular Contracture) on the right side. 5 months after the surgery to go bigger went back in the right side to remove all scar tissue and replace implant. Part of the reason I've switched surgeons is I've moved from AZ to CA to NV to CA to AZ so all over. 2 years after that surgery was living in Vegas and had again developed CC on both sides. I got referred to a Dr. in AZ who has remained my surgeon and stuck by me through the toughest times and gone above and beyond for what would be the worse to come. In April 2012 I got both implants replaced with same size but different profile cuz I had again developed CC and mild symmastia where my implants where starting to touch across the breast bone. I'm pretty tiny. At the time 5'2 100lbs. That surgery went well. After I had areoplasty by choice to reduce the size of my areoleas. Again I developed CC on the right side. In November had surgery on right side the remove scar tissue and placed a tissue graft. Went well, looked great. A week later (I was back living in CA at the time) I developed the worse pain and became extremely sick. Went to the hospital, was admitted. Ended up flying back to AZ the next day. My Dr. who was on vacation also flew back to AZ and in the office with his nurse they just injected a bunch of local and pulled the implant out, flushed the pocket several times, and sutured me closed. I had to go 4 months with only 1 boob!! :( I had an allergic reaction to the antibiotic given at the hospital and when I went back I got the test results from pathology and I had gotten a post-op deep wound infection. The rest is long but ultimately it took 4 surgeries to correct that infection. They were not able to put the implant back under the muscle due to all of the scar tissue and actually had to resect some of the muscle of the right side. To fix This included multiple fat grafting procedures which requires liposuction, bilateral areoplasty revision, the use of dermal tissue matrix (Allomax) which has kept me from having repeat CC..Thank God. So now the left side is under the muscle and has gone through a lot less trauma and the right side is over the muscle but you can't tell the difference because my surgeon is a genius and never gave up. Here is the link with the picture from after I lost my breast to after I think my last surgery.
https://www.realself.com/find/Arizona/Phoenix/Plastic-Surgeon/Remus-Repta#photo-1504465

These were my breasts at the start. It's funny they look bigger in that picture than they actually turned out. Must have been taken soon after before my skin stretched and they settled.

http://www.azcossurg.com/before-after-photos/breast/breast-augmentation-complications-and-prices-scottsdale/

Thanks so much for sharing your experience with me. Im so sorry you had to go through all of that. I really sont know what to do to be honest. I have my 6 week check up next week and I'm feeling really nervous about it

Thank you! Im just still feeling too big at the moment but unfortunately I have to wait a few weeks to discuss my options with my surgeon.

Argh dont Im kicking myself for getting anything done in the first place! This time around I've got moderate profile wheras I had high profile previously

I think from what you said maybe a 220cc implant would have given you a size you'd have been happy with. Good luck with what ever you decide to do & stick with Mr Richards, he's very good :)

Yeah Im so annoyed with myself for being talked into a larger implant..I originally wanted somewhere between 200-250 so I'm gutted with myself for not being firm about this.

Thanks for sharing your story with me..I gueas thats what im scared about the most :( not knowing how I would look with them removed.

Thank you so much, I really do think I will have them removed I just hope my poor skin will forgive me, they are just huge. I feel so stupid for getting anything done in the first place but for some reason I thought implants would cure my body insecurites how wrong could I have been! I have a post op appt for the 12th October eith my surgeon, I tried to bring it forward as I wanted to see him sooner but he wont see me before 6 weeks. I have been researching already for surgeons for explant so thank you for recommending Mrs Kat, I will definitely read up on her. I'm glad youre happy with your results now, I hope I will be soon too :)

I think you will be surprised how good you will look in the right hands. I haven't done a review yet because I am a very private person, but I think i will to help people like you. You had breasts that 99.9% of the female population would kill for. I cannot understand what you were thinking of, but then we are with silly complexes. But I am sure you will contract after explantation, though it will take about a year to settle. At first you will be shocked. I have seen women in their fifties shrink back beautifully. You defo will. I would pay for a consolation with Mrs Kat - she is not free - for she will give a proper examination and outcome proposal. I saw so many surgeons and no one took as much care as she. she is VERY precise and has certificates in breast reconstruction too. I could have had my explant on the NHS, which you can too by the way, but I am very happy I did not as this is my surgeon for life now. However, if you really have a problem with money, in Liverpool there is a breast surgeon who reconstructed a famous footballer's wife and by accounts is brilliant as all he does is breasts. Full stop. He offered to do me on the NHS but due to the doctors strikes and more urgent cases, I got cancelled three times over a year and he is so booked up he could not fit with my schedule privately. (I live abroad). His explantation charge privately was about 2000 - half of Mrs Kat. He also would not do an uplift at the same time and I am sick to death of being on that cutting table. He is very careful but in my case I just wanted to get on with what little quality life I have. His consultation is only 120 I think. He does not do all this publicity stuff so it is hard to find anything about him on the internet. His name is Lee Martin and if you are interested and this s link with info on him http://www.seftonsuite.co.uk/consultants/consultantDetails.aspx?c=2

Who knows? You might get it quickly on the NHS. All the best

Thank you so much for all of that info, people like you have been a saviour to me on realself, it helps so much to read other peoples experiences on here and just to get advice from others too. I had no idea that the nhs would even be a possibility so I will definitely look into that, although I hope to get some money together to try to figure this mess out. I have also read lots of good things about Dr Nick Collis in Birmingham for explants under local, so I think once I have had ny post op appt with my surgeon I will be booking a consultation with him, Mrs Kat and possibly Lee Martin.

I really hope as I havent had my implants for a huge amount of time that I have some hope of still looking nice afterwards, although ive had the odd comment telling me I will never look the same which is always scary.

Thank you so much again for your comment, I cant tell you how much it helps when I have nobody else to talk to about this as nobody understands.

you are most welcome - for what it is worth, I wish I had gone with a woman in the first place. I think women understand better. My husband agrees and he is defending a lot of the pip impact people so is having lots of contact with surgeons and experts etc. I wouldn't say this if my name was known!

Yes I think I agree with you there! As bad as it sounds I feel like men may do what they think looks good and im guessing my surgeon thought i'd be too small if I went ahead with somewhere under 300 around 250 like I first mentioned. I guess we live and we learn! I'm just keen to get on with making myself feel better again. Thank you once again!

You did not need anything at all. Point blank. Now you need to go back. Sorry to be blunt.

Blunt is fine..I know that now. I wish I hadnt touched them. Now awaiting my consultation to reverse the damage.

Hey.. thanks so much for commenting, it really helps to have people to relate to as I dont feel like I can talk to anybody about it as they all just say I look good now but like you said its about how I feel and I still feel too big! I definitely agree with you, I would much rather be smaller than bigger and just wish id stuck with my gut instead of going with 360. I have my 6 week check up next week and to be honest i'm going to ask about explanting and how much it would cost, if im not happy I have found a few more surgeons through reviews on this site so wpuld just have to save up!

Hi purple hat. I really do appreciate your honesty. I know I need to just tell my surgeon that I'm not happy but just hope he doesnt get offended by it! I will find out next week I guess!
I was diagnosed with body dismorphia when I was about 15 and its probably the reason I decided to go ahead with the stupidness to begin with, I just didnt see what I had before. I think my partner is just worried that I wont ever be happy but Its so hard to explain to somebody how it feels, its my body that I see and live with every day, I want to be happy in it and like you said, I was perfectly fine before. I will discuss explanting next week and see how my surgeon reacts. Thanks again for the support, it really helps.

Hey, thanks so much, I know it sounds silly but I just dont want to sound rude, I just still feel too big and cant seem to get across to anybody how horrible it makes me feel. Yeah I think my own breast tissue has been underestimated maybe because he didnt do my original surgery, I know I was small before but they were still pretty full. I wasn't offered 3D imaging and him and his nurse both seemed confident that I would be best around 360 for my desired result...well I still fit the same bras as I did with my old implants lol thanks again for your help, I will just have to be straight to the point xx

No worries, make sure you get your point across. If he is decent than he will listen to your concerns and offer to sort it out. Explain you are still wearing same bra size.
Let me know how you get on. PM me and I'll speak to you further re this xx