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27 yo., 750сс + lift. Weight Loss, 196 to 153 Pounds. Deflated Breasts, BIG Implants Looking Awesome! Birmingham, AL
ORIGINAL POST
Okay, so here it goes.... It took me 2.5 months to...
idutchaMarch 2, 2016
WORTH IT$7,035
Okay, so here it goes.... It took me 2.5 months to start writing a review. And here I am, finally doing it. I began my weight loss process in April, 2015. I've lost weight before, but gained it back after a while. Not this time, tho. This time it was different - I had a real goal. I told myself that if I can lose this weight, I will get a lift and implants. It was hard, but I did it. And I have had a surgery done in December.
I endlessly went back and forth about posting this review. The reason I did not want to do it was because how bad my breasts looked before the surgery (you can see for yourself on the pictures). The reason I am doing it is because I went with 750cc high profile silicone implants, and when I was in the process of researching and deciding on the size, I did not find a single useful review of the implants of such large size. Again, I have lost a bunch of weight and I wanted my big boobs back. First I started from 650cc or possibly 700cc when I was in the consultation with the doctor 3 weeks before the surgery. Having read many-many-many reviews on the BA, I saw that many girls are recommending to go bigger than you want (at least 50cc). On my pre-op, the day of the surgery, I went ahead and tried 700cc and 750cc and decided to go with the bigger ones (my boyfried was the partial reason I did). And I am telling you, I cannot be happier. And, oh boy he loves them. In fact, now that I think about it - I could go bigger. Let me tell you this - THE IMPLANTS YOU TRY ON AND PUT IN YOUR BRA LOOK A LOT LARGER THAN THEY DO IN YOUR BODY. I would say about 100-150cc larger. REALLY. Go bigger!!!Another reason I am writing this review is that I did not see a single useful review that had both the lift, AND the large implants put. Most of the breast lift reviews that I saw scared me. IN MY PERSONAL OPINION (I am not trying to offend anyone) the lift itself or the lift with the small implants does not give a good result at all, and just makes the breasts look weird and unnatural (plus the scar). Now, when you look at my pictures, you can judge by yourself. But I believe, that the reason I have such good boob shape and the reason they look so good is BECAUSE I went with large implants. Okay, that was my introduction and motivation. Now I will try to structure the advice:
1. RESEARCH, research, research. I think I saw more boobies in 3 months that I was researching than does any man in his entire life. That gives you a pretty good idea about the size, shape, expectations, what you need for the surgery, what is going to happen, and what you should be expecting. Most importantly, WRITE DOWN ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU WANT TO ASK YOUR DOCTOR AS THEY APPEAR. Make a list and add to it constantly.2. REALSELF is a real gold mine. It has everything. Don't be affraid to ask questions and look at other people's reviews. Oh and, feel free to ask me ANYTHING about my experience! I was literally waking up with it and looking at the before/after pictures before going to bed :) 3. Go on the CONSULTATIONS. At least 2-3. Don't go on the ones that require you to pay - those doctors are usually not really good. For example, there is no need for Dr. Hedden to charge you for the consultation - he is good and he knows that you will return. Which I did. ALSO, i travelled for 4 hours. SO WORTH TRAVELLING!4. I am very surprised to say this, but IT WAS NOT AS BAD as I expected it would be. Let me tell you a little story. First of all, 4 days before the surgery, I got a sore throat and it hurt bad. I was worried that the surgery is going to be rescheduled (there are risks connected with the sore throat and anastesia). I called the doctor's office and they told me to wait a few days. So, I did. I got a little better and they told me to come. On the day of the surgery, I still had a sore throat (but it got better) so they proceeded. Oddly enough, I woke up with no sign of sickness or sore throat whatsoever. Oh, and the night before the surgery, I was more worried that they would postpone it, than I was about the surgery itself. That helped :)Okay, so 6 AM I was in the surgery center. Around 6.30 they have invited me in to change, give the urine sample, and get ready. My boyfriend was there with me almost all the time. The first thing you'll do is change into the robe. Then the doctor will come and draw on you ( I am attaching the masterpiece). Then, the anestesiologist will come and start the IV. About 30 minutes after that, I was invited into the OR. Laid down on the table (which looked like a cross :). The anestesiologist was asking me some questions. The last one I did not have time to answer because I just fell asleep. Then, 3 hours later (which for me seemed like a second), I heard a voice of a nurse telling me that they need to transfer me from the rolling bed onto a regular one. Then I blacked out for a bit because I felt tired. I did not feel any pain, but did feel some pressure on my chest. I woke up later again and felt very nautious. Obviously, it is normal for some people to vomit when they are getting out of an anastesia. I dozed of again ( not sure for how long) and woke up becase the nurse had to put my pants on. She asked me to raise my butt, which was very hard to do, and a little painful. Then, I guess 10 or 15 min later, I was transferred to the wheelchair. All this after surgery stuff lasted for about an hour or so. After that, I got up, got into the car, and then we drove to the hotel. getting out of the car slowly was a bit hard, but nothing too bad. The rest of the day I spent in bed. 5. FOOD. I suggest not eating hard food for at least two days after the surgery. Believe me, it won't be hard - you will be sleepy the whole time from the meds. What I did was drinking KEFIR ( this is a drinkinf yogurt with fruit flavors) and eating some chocolate or kitkats. It worked well, I was not constipated at all! Believe me, KEFIR works wonders with your stomack. It helps the good bacteria, especially when you are taking tons of medications. Oh, and NO CAFFEINE for at least 5-7 days6. BRAS. Buy them with Amazon Prime so you could return the wrong size. Buy few of different sizes and bring all of them to surgery. I found one EXTREMELY comfortable, supportive, and nice.
I am telling you, I wear it day and night! Extremely comfortable.7. STUFF YOU NEED WITH YOU.
- Pillows (body pillows work wonders)
- Big loose pants you can put on no problem.
- Tops on zippers so you don't have to put your arms up.
- Antibacterial soap (you need to wash yourself with it the day of the surgery, and I washed myself with it after).
- Comfortable shoes for the surgery day.
- Socks (it will be cold without them in the post op).
- Do something with your hair so you don;t have to touch it for a whole day. Lifting your arms up is a problem.
- Make sure that your manicure/pedicure/waxing/hair removal is done right before the surgery because you will not want to do it after.
- Chapstic and halls for throat. Might need them.
- Water
- Snacks8. FIRST TWO DAYS. Just stay in bed, let someone else to take care of you. Drink a lot of fluids, KEFIR, and walk every few hours. Don't do anything else. During the first two-three days after the surgery, when you get up to walk (which you need to do every few hours for 10-15 min), you might get dizzy, nauteous, or feel like you're going to faint. Happened to me 3 times, while the first two times was because I got up to walk, when the last one was in the doctor's office on the post op next day when the nurse removed my bra. That is normal. Just sit or lay down and MAKE SURE TO LIFT YOUR LEGS UP. That's it.9. MEDICATIONS. Have someone to fill the prescriptions WHILE you are in the surgery. Also, one or two months before the surgery, take a multivitamin and additional vitamin c - this helps heeling. I am still taking them almost three months after the surgery. READ THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY. Usually, they want you to take pain killers and muscle relaxers separately.10. SHOWER - do not wash your upper body after the surgery. You can wash everything below the waist. I used BABY WIPES for the upper body to freshen up. I did it for a week and took a first full shower about 7-9 days after the surgery. That is a smart move, because it causes your steri strips to stay put longer. Also, DO NOT use any oily stuff on your boobs next to the steri strips. I did and it caused me some troubles, of which I will talk later. Make sure your steri strips are always dry or dried after the shower. NO BATH! 11. Once the strips are off, using BABY OIL to massage your boobs works awesome for the dry skin! Massage them. The skin is EXTREMELY dry and sensitive after the surgery and will peel of easily after the smallest irritation. I think that's it with the advice. Now back to my story.
Surgery went well. Surprisingly - I felt great. I stopped taking all the meds on the third day. I felt awesome. Probably because I ate extremely healty and exercised 2-3 hours a day 3 months prior to the surgery. On day 7, we had to travel 12 hours in a car. it went well. Just had to stop every 2 hours for me to work around (that is needed for the blood cloths not to form). Around day 12 I started walking for around an hour every day, which at first was slightly weird (boobs bounced around). Returned to the gym to walk incline 2.5 weeks after the surgery and then a month after, I started doing all the lower body exercises in full strengths. At first, your breasts are extremely tight - like when you got stung by a bee in your thumb. But it is not too bad, and it goes away. There can also be plenty of weird feelings in your breasts. The side of my left breast was completely numb and felt extremely weird if I touched it ( you know when you sit on your leg for an hour and it goes numb - that's the feeling). Now I am 2.5 months post op and 90% of that feeling is gone. You can also have shooting pain (which I didn't). Weird stuff I had:
- Side of the left boob numb
- Implant making squeeking noises when I was lifting my arms high up (day 3-7 after the surgery)
- Pain in the morning, or after laying down for a while when my implants "dropped" with the gravity when I was getting up (it passed within around two weeks)
- Nipple goosebumps (You know when you have the sudden shivers when you are cold and then you got goosebumps? That's what I had every 10 minutes for like 5 days. And my nipples would get hard and poke out too with it). It did not hurt, but it was such a weird feeling. Especially considering the fact that it was happening every 10 min!)
- Now, occasionally, one or both of my nipples would "wake up" on me and poke out and then go back to normal.
- And in general, implant moving would feel weird at first when it was creating a pocket. This is all for this review, and I will post the separate comment with some problems I ran into. PLEASE let me know if you have any question.
I endlessly went back and forth about posting this review. The reason I did not want to do it was because how bad my breasts looked before the surgery (you can see for yourself on the pictures). The reason I am doing it is because I went with 750cc high profile silicone implants, and when I was in the process of researching and deciding on the size, I did not find a single useful review of the implants of such large size. Again, I have lost a bunch of weight and I wanted my big boobs back. First I started from 650cc or possibly 700cc when I was in the consultation with the doctor 3 weeks before the surgery. Having read many-many-many reviews on the BA, I saw that many girls are recommending to go bigger than you want (at least 50cc). On my pre-op, the day of the surgery, I went ahead and tried 700cc and 750cc and decided to go with the bigger ones (my boyfried was the partial reason I did). And I am telling you, I cannot be happier. And, oh boy he loves them. In fact, now that I think about it - I could go bigger. Let me tell you this - THE IMPLANTS YOU TRY ON AND PUT IN YOUR BRA LOOK A LOT LARGER THAN THEY DO IN YOUR BODY. I would say about 100-150cc larger. REALLY. Go bigger!!!Another reason I am writing this review is that I did not see a single useful review that had both the lift, AND the large implants put. Most of the breast lift reviews that I saw scared me. IN MY PERSONAL OPINION (I am not trying to offend anyone) the lift itself or the lift with the small implants does not give a good result at all, and just makes the breasts look weird and unnatural (plus the scar). Now, when you look at my pictures, you can judge by yourself. But I believe, that the reason I have such good boob shape and the reason they look so good is BECAUSE I went with large implants. Okay, that was my introduction and motivation. Now I will try to structure the advice:
1. RESEARCH, research, research. I think I saw more boobies in 3 months that I was researching than does any man in his entire life. That gives you a pretty good idea about the size, shape, expectations, what you need for the surgery, what is going to happen, and what you should be expecting. Most importantly, WRITE DOWN ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU WANT TO ASK YOUR DOCTOR AS THEY APPEAR. Make a list and add to it constantly.2. REALSELF is a real gold mine. It has everything. Don't be affraid to ask questions and look at other people's reviews. Oh and, feel free to ask me ANYTHING about my experience! I was literally waking up with it and looking at the before/after pictures before going to bed :) 3. Go on the CONSULTATIONS. At least 2-3. Don't go on the ones that require you to pay - those doctors are usually not really good. For example, there is no need for Dr. Hedden to charge you for the consultation - he is good and he knows that you will return. Which I did. ALSO, i travelled for 4 hours. SO WORTH TRAVELLING!4. I am very surprised to say this, but IT WAS NOT AS BAD as I expected it would be. Let me tell you a little story. First of all, 4 days before the surgery, I got a sore throat and it hurt bad. I was worried that the surgery is going to be rescheduled (there are risks connected with the sore throat and anastesia). I called the doctor's office and they told me to wait a few days. So, I did. I got a little better and they told me to come. On the day of the surgery, I still had a sore throat (but it got better) so they proceeded. Oddly enough, I woke up with no sign of sickness or sore throat whatsoever. Oh, and the night before the surgery, I was more worried that they would postpone it, than I was about the surgery itself. That helped :)Okay, so 6 AM I was in the surgery center. Around 6.30 they have invited me in to change, give the urine sample, and get ready. My boyfriend was there with me almost all the time. The first thing you'll do is change into the robe. Then the doctor will come and draw on you ( I am attaching the masterpiece). Then, the anestesiologist will come and start the IV. About 30 minutes after that, I was invited into the OR. Laid down on the table (which looked like a cross :). The anestesiologist was asking me some questions. The last one I did not have time to answer because I just fell asleep. Then, 3 hours later (which for me seemed like a second), I heard a voice of a nurse telling me that they need to transfer me from the rolling bed onto a regular one. Then I blacked out for a bit because I felt tired. I did not feel any pain, but did feel some pressure on my chest. I woke up later again and felt very nautious. Obviously, it is normal for some people to vomit when they are getting out of an anastesia. I dozed of again ( not sure for how long) and woke up becase the nurse had to put my pants on. She asked me to raise my butt, which was very hard to do, and a little painful. Then, I guess 10 or 15 min later, I was transferred to the wheelchair. All this after surgery stuff lasted for about an hour or so. After that, I got up, got into the car, and then we drove to the hotel. getting out of the car slowly was a bit hard, but nothing too bad. The rest of the day I spent in bed. 5. FOOD. I suggest not eating hard food for at least two days after the surgery. Believe me, it won't be hard - you will be sleepy the whole time from the meds. What I did was drinking KEFIR ( this is a drinkinf yogurt with fruit flavors) and eating some chocolate or kitkats. It worked well, I was not constipated at all! Believe me, KEFIR works wonders with your stomack. It helps the good bacteria, especially when you are taking tons of medications. Oh, and NO CAFFEINE for at least 5-7 days6. BRAS. Buy them with Amazon Prime so you could return the wrong size. Buy few of different sizes and bring all of them to surgery. I found one EXTREMELY comfortable, supportive, and nice.
I am telling you, I wear it day and night! Extremely comfortable.7. STUFF YOU NEED WITH YOU.
- Pillows (body pillows work wonders)
- Big loose pants you can put on no problem.
- Tops on zippers so you don't have to put your arms up.
- Antibacterial soap (you need to wash yourself with it the day of the surgery, and I washed myself with it after).
- Comfortable shoes for the surgery day.
- Socks (it will be cold without them in the post op).
- Do something with your hair so you don;t have to touch it for a whole day. Lifting your arms up is a problem.
- Make sure that your manicure/pedicure/waxing/hair removal is done right before the surgery because you will not want to do it after.
- Chapstic and halls for throat. Might need them.
- Water
- Snacks8. FIRST TWO DAYS. Just stay in bed, let someone else to take care of you. Drink a lot of fluids, KEFIR, and walk every few hours. Don't do anything else. During the first two-three days after the surgery, when you get up to walk (which you need to do every few hours for 10-15 min), you might get dizzy, nauteous, or feel like you're going to faint. Happened to me 3 times, while the first two times was because I got up to walk, when the last one was in the doctor's office on the post op next day when the nurse removed my bra. That is normal. Just sit or lay down and MAKE SURE TO LIFT YOUR LEGS UP. That's it.9. MEDICATIONS. Have someone to fill the prescriptions WHILE you are in the surgery. Also, one or two months before the surgery, take a multivitamin and additional vitamin c - this helps heeling. I am still taking them almost three months after the surgery. READ THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY. Usually, they want you to take pain killers and muscle relaxers separately.10. SHOWER - do not wash your upper body after the surgery. You can wash everything below the waist. I used BABY WIPES for the upper body to freshen up. I did it for a week and took a first full shower about 7-9 days after the surgery. That is a smart move, because it causes your steri strips to stay put longer. Also, DO NOT use any oily stuff on your boobs next to the steri strips. I did and it caused me some troubles, of which I will talk later. Make sure your steri strips are always dry or dried after the shower. NO BATH! 11. Once the strips are off, using BABY OIL to massage your boobs works awesome for the dry skin! Massage them. The skin is EXTREMELY dry and sensitive after the surgery and will peel of easily after the smallest irritation. I think that's it with the advice. Now back to my story.
Surgery went well. Surprisingly - I felt great. I stopped taking all the meds on the third day. I felt awesome. Probably because I ate extremely healty and exercised 2-3 hours a day 3 months prior to the surgery. On day 7, we had to travel 12 hours in a car. it went well. Just had to stop every 2 hours for me to work around (that is needed for the blood cloths not to form). Around day 12 I started walking for around an hour every day, which at first was slightly weird (boobs bounced around). Returned to the gym to walk incline 2.5 weeks after the surgery and then a month after, I started doing all the lower body exercises in full strengths. At first, your breasts are extremely tight - like when you got stung by a bee in your thumb. But it is not too bad, and it goes away. There can also be plenty of weird feelings in your breasts. The side of my left breast was completely numb and felt extremely weird if I touched it ( you know when you sit on your leg for an hour and it goes numb - that's the feeling). Now I am 2.5 months post op and 90% of that feeling is gone. You can also have shooting pain (which I didn't). Weird stuff I had:
- Side of the left boob numb
- Implant making squeeking noises when I was lifting my arms high up (day 3-7 after the surgery)
- Pain in the morning, or after laying down for a while when my implants "dropped" with the gravity when I was getting up (it passed within around two weeks)
- Nipple goosebumps (You know when you have the sudden shivers when you are cold and then you got goosebumps? That's what I had every 10 minutes for like 5 days. And my nipples would get hard and poke out too with it). It did not hurt, but it was such a weird feeling. Especially considering the fact that it was happening every 10 min!)
- Now, occasionally, one or both of my nipples would "wake up" on me and poke out and then go back to normal.
- And in general, implant moving would feel weird at first when it was creating a pocket. This is all for this review, and I will post the separate comment with some problems I ran into. PLEASE let me know if you have any question.
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Replies (44)
March 4, 2016
Thank you for sharing! And I would agree with you there are very few posting on large silicone implants with a full lift. So again thanks for sharing. Mine is March 14th and I'm getting 750cc textured silicone with full lift as well. Countdown! Also thanks for sharing what to bring to hospital!!!
June 24, 2016
So agree with Momosu. Bigger implant reviews are few and far between. Thank you for putting in the time to relate your experience in such detail. You look GREAT!
March 4, 2016
you look great! So what did you do to lose the weight? I'd like to get abreast lift with implants also but I need to lose about 20 lbs and I think I probably need to do that first?
March 4, 2016
Thank you for the compliment! What I did was very simple: first of all, I bought a Fitbit charge hr to measure how many calories a day I burn. I also input all the calories I ate during the day. I also worked out around 2 hours every day. In the end, I made sure that I consumed at least 750 calories less than I burned. With this rate, you should be burning 1.5 pounds a week. If you do 1000 deficit a day - it's 2 pounds a week. What I ate was broccoli baked in the oven with salt and olive oil, 4 egg whites and one egg yolk a day (boiled) and I would add 0% non fat Greek yogurt mixed with sriracha for the taste. That would be one meal. Second - chicken breast (boiled or grilled) with cucumbers, baby carrots and tomatoes. Sauerkraut works well with it and it also is extremely low in calories and good for fatburn. Third meal would be either quinoa or buckwheat with salad, or omlet with veggies. If I wanted something sweet, I would eat a square or two of dark Cadbury chocolate with coffee and milk, or outside fruit bars (it's a Popsicle, it is without any sugar and has only 30 calories).
Let me know if you want more details.
Let me know if you want more details.
March 4, 2016
Oh and one more thing: You MUST get your weight off before the surgery, otherwise it will mess up the results
March 4, 2016
Yes!!! Thank youuu!! This is excat5 what i was looking for ;) i am having the same thing and 450cc saline. I think going small would look weurd on my body. So its great to hear that u agree! U look great by the way!! Thx for your review!
March 5, 2016
Amaxinf results! I'm glad finally posting larger implants- thank you for that!
What is your height?
What is your height?
March 6, 2016
Thank you! I am 5'7 and currently 162 pounds. 4 of them are boobies. Gained some weight after the surgery, but I am already on the way to lose it again.
March 6, 2016
You look great! I'm going with 650 cc and you definitely helped my worry of being too large!
UPDATED FROM idutcha
3 months post
Problems I have faced during the healing process
idutchaMarch 2, 2016
There are many variables that influence the healing process. And, while there was no problems with my implants, I did run into several problems with my incisions.
1. I guess to the fact that I used baby oil on my boobs and it softened the steri strips, plus the fact that the implants are large, i had three spots on the incisions that ruptured. This is called superficial wound dehiscence. Basically, the top layer of skin breaks down. It is not very serious if it does not get infected. Takes a looooooong time to heal, but heals properly if you keep it DRY, CLEAN and change gauze pads two times a day. I did go to see the doctor, which took like 5 minutes. He just looked at the wound, made sure its not infected. Then the nurse cut out the suture that was sticking out of that wound, cleaned it and put a pad on it. Then we went home. After that, I put triple antibiotic ointment on it two times a day after I would clean the wound. It healed slow, but well (see the pictures, HOWEVER:
2. Using antibiotic ointment for too long is BAD. I did use it for more than 2 weeks, so I had bad skin irritation for like a week after I stopped. After the irritation was gone, all that skin peeled off and then my incisions looked better. This was all happening while my dehiscences were healing.
3. After they did, I started noticing "pimple like" spots right on the incisions. I had 5 of them (wow! ) they looked like pimples, with white puss underneath the top layer of skin. One time I took my bra off and I saw all that pus came out of one spot. That is not bad also if you take care of them. You can either go see the doctor, or you can do it yourself. I did some research and all the sources said to see if there are any sutures poking out (which there were). Basically, what happened, is that these sutures that were not absorbed by the body yet, were treated like a foreign object and my body was just trying to get rid of them and push them outside. So I poked a little bit at them and got the little parts of the sutures out. Again, I had around 5 of them. Had to poke at them to remove all the pus, then to remove the sutures. I was left with tiny holes where those pimples used to be. So what I did, was cleaned them with alcohol twice a day and put a tiny amount of antibiotic ointment on these holes for two times during the first day (just to avoid infection). They also healed well and are almost perfect now.
4. On the bottom part of my right breast, where are had 2-3 skin dehescences, the skin on the incision itself looks like it has been stretched. It is also more red than other parts. I was worried about and the scar, but Dr. Hedden assured me that the redness will go down eventually and that the scar would look not bad at all. We will see. BY THE WAY, in the process of healing, when they get cleaner and cleaner, it might seem like their size increases, but its okay. It is supposed to be like that - all the dead skin around them is going away so don't panic. They will get smaller when they heal.
5. Scars. I have already bought two packs of Scar away silicone strips for the c-cection for my scars. The reason I bought the ones for the c-section is that they ate 7 by 3 inches, which is perfect for my incicions. I will start using them in a few days once everything is healed and will keep updating this review with progress pictures.
I am also attaching several pictures of the problem spots, so be careful, it is not nasty, but not pleasant as well.
1. I guess to the fact that I used baby oil on my boobs and it softened the steri strips, plus the fact that the implants are large, i had three spots on the incisions that ruptured. This is called superficial wound dehiscence. Basically, the top layer of skin breaks down. It is not very serious if it does not get infected. Takes a looooooong time to heal, but heals properly if you keep it DRY, CLEAN and change gauze pads two times a day. I did go to see the doctor, which took like 5 minutes. He just looked at the wound, made sure its not infected. Then the nurse cut out the suture that was sticking out of that wound, cleaned it and put a pad on it. Then we went home. After that, I put triple antibiotic ointment on it two times a day after I would clean the wound. It healed slow, but well (see the pictures, HOWEVER:
2. Using antibiotic ointment for too long is BAD. I did use it for more than 2 weeks, so I had bad skin irritation for like a week after I stopped. After the irritation was gone, all that skin peeled off and then my incisions looked better. This was all happening while my dehiscences were healing.
3. After they did, I started noticing "pimple like" spots right on the incisions. I had 5 of them (wow! ) they looked like pimples, with white puss underneath the top layer of skin. One time I took my bra off and I saw all that pus came out of one spot. That is not bad also if you take care of them. You can either go see the doctor, or you can do it yourself. I did some research and all the sources said to see if there are any sutures poking out (which there were). Basically, what happened, is that these sutures that were not absorbed by the body yet, were treated like a foreign object and my body was just trying to get rid of them and push them outside. So I poked a little bit at them and got the little parts of the sutures out. Again, I had around 5 of them. Had to poke at them to remove all the pus, then to remove the sutures. I was left with tiny holes where those pimples used to be. So what I did, was cleaned them with alcohol twice a day and put a tiny amount of antibiotic ointment on these holes for two times during the first day (just to avoid infection). They also healed well and are almost perfect now.
4. On the bottom part of my right breast, where are had 2-3 skin dehescences, the skin on the incision itself looks like it has been stretched. It is also more red than other parts. I was worried about and the scar, but Dr. Hedden assured me that the redness will go down eventually and that the scar would look not bad at all. We will see. BY THE WAY, in the process of healing, when they get cleaner and cleaner, it might seem like their size increases, but its okay. It is supposed to be like that - all the dead skin around them is going away so don't panic. They will get smaller when they heal.
5. Scars. I have already bought two packs of Scar away silicone strips for the c-cection for my scars. The reason I bought the ones for the c-section is that they ate 7 by 3 inches, which is perfect for my incicions. I will start using them in a few days once everything is healed and will keep updating this review with progress pictures.
I am also attaching several pictures of the problem spots, so be careful, it is not nasty, but not pleasant as well.
Replies (11)
March 3, 2016
Thank you for your posts. Question. My breast seem to hurt more at night when I go to bed even though I sleep propped up on my back. Also they feel compressed when I get up. I have to massage them to loosen them up and ease the pain. Did you experience any of that?
March 3, 2016
Hey, I did not. However everyone is different. I would suggest looking into the bra that you are wearing. I posted the link to the one I bought from Amazon but it was deleted. Search on the website the bra called "Posture correction wireless back support bra - Leonisa" and you'll find it. It has a very wide back and something like a cross on the fabrics.
As to massage, don't push it. I did not massage mine almost at all, and they dropped fine. As to the pain - it is all normal as long as you see improvements!
Hope this helps!
As to massage, don't push it. I did not massage mine almost at all, and they dropped fine. As to the pain - it is all normal as long as you see improvements!
Hope this helps!
May 7, 2016
Thank you for your review I have found this very informative, I am due to have lift and implants in August this year, so it's great to be well equipped with every detail. X
March 29, 2017
How long did it take to heal from this? I am currently 2 1/2 weeks post op and have the same problem. I've had it since 1 week post op and I am going crazy emailing my doctor pic everyday and they tell me to clean it twice a day with antibacterial soap and keep it dry. I'm starting to feel down because of this.
March 29, 2017
Hi! You should definitely NOT feel down because of it and here are the reasons: 1. Scars are going to be not that bad, 2. men do not care about scars. 3. your surgeon should be able to offer you a free/low cost scar repair surgery that will help. As to me, i have to tell you this - be patient. it really takes a long time, but as you can see - they heal and heal well if you do everything as i said. One more advice - DO NOT overuse antibiotic ointment, you'll get a rash. Let me know if i can help in any other way.
March 29, 2017
Thank you so much! You are so right! Patience is the key it just freaked me out. Mine happened where both incisions meet toward the bottom of the breast. I see my doctor on Monday for a follow up and he can evaluate it then. As for now they just want me to wash it twice a day with antibacterial soap and keep it dry. I cannot put anything on it as of yet. I appreciate your advice :)
March 29, 2017
use of the ointment varies by doctor, so just follow whatever he tells you to do :) after you're done healing - use Maderma PM before you go to bed - helps with the scars a lot!
March 29, 2017
Yikes ok I better really learn to have patience! Thank you darling!
UPDATED FROM idutcha
3 months post
3 months post op - my first boobieversary!
idutchaMarch 17, 2016
Hey ladies,
So here I am, 3 months post op - healing well and doing well too! Still have the little scars and pimples. Waiting to put the silicone scar strips on once everything is healed. To everyone out there - do it, its worth it!
So here I am, 3 months post op - healing well and doing well too! Still have the little scars and pimples. Waiting to put the silicone scar strips on once everything is healed. To everyone out there - do it, its worth it!
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March 18, 2016
They look nice and full. Congrats. I told dr. Hedden I wanted to go bigger. He said give it some time first then we will revisit. Looking good lady.
March 20, 2016
Well definitely, as the implants drop, the bottom part becomes fuller and bigger so yes, wait a bit :) and good luck!
March 20, 2016
Thank you so much for your detailed review!!! It's amazing how much of a difference in healing you've had from day 1 to 3 months!!! I'm a little over 5 weeks post op & struggling to be pleased with my own results - your post gives me a lot of positive hope!!! I'm also very lucky to have a wonderful PS who is patient and kind. Thank you again for such an encouraging post!! You look GORGEOUS!!!
Thanks for sharing your thoughtful and highly detailed review. It will be so helpful to other members considering this surgery. Congratulations on your results also, they really speak for themselves. If you would consider it, we would love it if you would continue to keep us updated on your progress.