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Two years later
It’s been two years since my uplift (that’s gone so so fast). I absolutely love them and feel like I’ve had them forever I can barely remember my old boobs. The scarring is ok it’s faded to white now although it is a little un-neat in places but it’s not something I really notice or think about. The shape looks super natural and I love being able to go bra-less it’s a novelty that I always feel appreciation for as it was so frustrating before when my boobs were too saggy to ever go bra-less. Still one of the best decisions I made to have an uplift without implants.
Breast Uplift No Implants
I’ve decided to write a review as when I have surfed this website for help, advice and inspiration previously I noticed a lack of reviews for uplifts without implants.
From puberty my breasts developed in what I felt was an usual way. Although my breats felt firm - My nipples always pointed down and I was so unhappy with the shape. I’ve got no kids, I’m 25 YO and had no dramatic weight loss’ (a few stone here and there) I’m 5,2 and around 9 stone so I didn’t know why my breast looked so different from other woman’s around me.
My boobs developed to around a DD/E and I struggled with wearing strapless. Going bra-less was a complete no no. I always wanted an uplift and didn’t even mind if I lost some of the size so I booked a consultation at the hospital group in 2016. I saw a doctor called Dr Seno who advised me that in order to get the fullness in the top of my breast and round shape that I wanted I would need implants and an uplift. I didn’t want an increase in size so I left without booking anything... not feeling like I had found the right surgeon for the job.
Fast forward two years and after a summer of not being able to wear any of the pretty summer clothes that I wanted to wear and feeling like I didn’t even want to date again with these breasts I booked another consultation at the Hospital Group but this time with Dr Payne. Straight away I felt very comfortable with him and he told me that I didn’t need implants and that I was a suitable candidate for a anchor lift. To be honest I wasn’t even particularly bothered about the scarring - to have round perky beasts the scarring was a small price to pay. I booked there and then for surgery in TWO weeks time!!.. I had waited long enough. I was a bit nervous running up to it but mostly excited. I didn’t worry about the pain at all which was probably naive but I just wanted it done so badly. I was more worried about waking up from the anesthetic and saying something weird or rude to the nurse.
On the day of my surgery I got there at 9am to learn that that they ask everyone booked in for surgery that day to arrive for 9 and then the surgeon decides who goes in what order. That’s probably one of the negatives things I would say about the experience. It would have been better to have been given a time or a slot before hand. I begged the nurse to let me be one of the first to go down because I think if I had been waiting all day - hungry and in my surgery gown and paper knickers I would have been SO anxious.
Luckily I went down to surgery about 11am, My friend who took me also stayed with me until I was ready to go in which was nice. We sat in my own private room and had a giggle (I was so excited).
I walked down to surgery. Laying down on the bed waiting for the anesthetisic to knock me out was a strange experience and then I woke up and I was done!!!! I felt uncomfortable but I wasn’t in any pain - it was like a really tender feeling. I had a binder on and bandages but once I was in the room on my own I did have a peak under the binder and I could see straight away that the shape was so different.
I could almost cry writing this because it was something that I wanted for SO long and to grow up hating your body and then to do something about it is just so empowering.
Ok so I was lying in my bed after surgery and I wasn’t really in any pain at all I was texting my friends and getting up walking around the room etc... i was waiting for this excruciating pain to kick in like everyone warned me about and it just didn’t! The worse pain was like I had done a really hard weight lifting session at the gym and I was aching the next day.
The nurse came in and took the binder off and helped me into my sports bra (you don’t have to buy the expensive ones from the hospital - I took a bog standard one from Marks and Spencer’s and I had no issues with it at all). Dr Payne came in at one point too but I was half asleep so I can’t remember what we talked about. My mom came straight from work and stayed with me until visiting hours ended (9pm I think) and she thought I was very perky considering the surgery a few hours before.
I had a restless night because I sleep on my stomach and the head rest thing on the bed was too upright. At one point I woke up and I was lying on my front!
Anyway they let me go home the following morning at 7am and I went home and rested. They say not to drive for a few weeks but I was driving after about 5 days - the only thing that I struggled with was opening and closing the boot. I washed my own hair over the sink after a couple days which was also fine ... I just listened to my body and did what felt comfortable. I didn’t get to see my boobs properly until my check up the week after surgery when I had to go back and see the nurse and she changed my bandages. I was really happy with them when I saw them! And I also I might add - the stitches/scars were SO itchy for the first two weeks! That was more annoying than any pain.
I was back to work after two weeks although I can honestly say I only needed one week off but two was a nice rest. I stayed with my mom but didn’t really need any help with anything. You can’t get the bandages wet so I would run a bath- sit in it and then get out- wash my armpits with a flannel and then wash my hair over the sink.
After my two week check up my scars looked really good so we took the bandages off and it was just bare breast in sports bra. It’s been 4 weeks now and I’m still wearing the sports bra 24/7 (I have about 4) and the scars are healing so well. I did go bra-less for a birthday night out last weekend but everything was fine and I made sure to put the bra back on before I went to sleep.
I do think it would have been nice to have had my first check up with the surgeon rather than the nurse - I haven’t seen the surgeon since the op but then that is the way that they do things at the Hospital Group and although I wouldn’t change a thing about my choices of provider... you do feel a little like you are on a conveyor belt and it’s not very personal.
PROS-
1. It didn’t hurt - on a scale of one to ten with ten being the highest pain the most pain I felt was about a 5 and even that was very bearable, just like an ache after a good work out
2. The surgeon was brill, he made me feel at ease and I felt so confident in him I booked my op for two weeks after consultation
3. My breasts look 100x better, the shape is perfect, scars are healing amazing
4. My smaller areoles are now so much prettier
5. I know this sounds weird but I enjoyed the whole experience and wish I had done it years before
6. I thought I would loose a size or two but Dr Payne took skin only and no breast tissue so I still have my DD’s without implants. This was a really nice surprise when I had my first check up and the nurse told me that I lost no breast tissue.
Cons
1. I haven’t seen my surgeon since the surgery 4 weeks ago
2. The Hospital Group kind of make you feel like you are on a conveyor belt of patients
3. You have to soak your nails off before surgery (lol, I know but I’m trying to think of cons)
4. My boobs are SO numb and my nipples - I hope the feeling comes back to them
5. I wasted years hating my boobs when the solution was so easy and there the whole time
From puberty my breasts developed in what I felt was an usual way. Although my breats felt firm - My nipples always pointed down and I was so unhappy with the shape. I’ve got no kids, I’m 25 YO and had no dramatic weight loss’ (a few stone here and there) I’m 5,2 and around 9 stone so I didn’t know why my breast looked so different from other woman’s around me.
My boobs developed to around a DD/E and I struggled with wearing strapless. Going bra-less was a complete no no. I always wanted an uplift and didn’t even mind if I lost some of the size so I booked a consultation at the hospital group in 2016. I saw a doctor called Dr Seno who advised me that in order to get the fullness in the top of my breast and round shape that I wanted I would need implants and an uplift. I didn’t want an increase in size so I left without booking anything... not feeling like I had found the right surgeon for the job.
Fast forward two years and after a summer of not being able to wear any of the pretty summer clothes that I wanted to wear and feeling like I didn’t even want to date again with these breasts I booked another consultation at the Hospital Group but this time with Dr Payne. Straight away I felt very comfortable with him and he told me that I didn’t need implants and that I was a suitable candidate for a anchor lift. To be honest I wasn’t even particularly bothered about the scarring - to have round perky beasts the scarring was a small price to pay. I booked there and then for surgery in TWO weeks time!!.. I had waited long enough. I was a bit nervous running up to it but mostly excited. I didn’t worry about the pain at all which was probably naive but I just wanted it done so badly. I was more worried about waking up from the anesthetic and saying something weird or rude to the nurse.
On the day of my surgery I got there at 9am to learn that that they ask everyone booked in for surgery that day to arrive for 9 and then the surgeon decides who goes in what order. That’s probably one of the negatives things I would say about the experience. It would have been better to have been given a time or a slot before hand. I begged the nurse to let me be one of the first to go down because I think if I had been waiting all day - hungry and in my surgery gown and paper knickers I would have been SO anxious.
Luckily I went down to surgery about 11am, My friend who took me also stayed with me until I was ready to go in which was nice. We sat in my own private room and had a giggle (I was so excited).
I walked down to surgery. Laying down on the bed waiting for the anesthetisic to knock me out was a strange experience and then I woke up and I was done!!!! I felt uncomfortable but I wasn’t in any pain - it was like a really tender feeling. I had a binder on and bandages but once I was in the room on my own I did have a peak under the binder and I could see straight away that the shape was so different.
I could almost cry writing this because it was something that I wanted for SO long and to grow up hating your body and then to do something about it is just so empowering.
Ok so I was lying in my bed after surgery and I wasn’t really in any pain at all I was texting my friends and getting up walking around the room etc... i was waiting for this excruciating pain to kick in like everyone warned me about and it just didn’t! The worse pain was like I had done a really hard weight lifting session at the gym and I was aching the next day.
The nurse came in and took the binder off and helped me into my sports bra (you don’t have to buy the expensive ones from the hospital - I took a bog standard one from Marks and Spencer’s and I had no issues with it at all). Dr Payne came in at one point too but I was half asleep so I can’t remember what we talked about. My mom came straight from work and stayed with me until visiting hours ended (9pm I think) and she thought I was very perky considering the surgery a few hours before.
I had a restless night because I sleep on my stomach and the head rest thing on the bed was too upright. At one point I woke up and I was lying on my front!
Anyway they let me go home the following morning at 7am and I went home and rested. They say not to drive for a few weeks but I was driving after about 5 days - the only thing that I struggled with was opening and closing the boot. I washed my own hair over the sink after a couple days which was also fine ... I just listened to my body and did what felt comfortable. I didn’t get to see my boobs properly until my check up the week after surgery when I had to go back and see the nurse and she changed my bandages. I was really happy with them when I saw them! And I also I might add - the stitches/scars were SO itchy for the first two weeks! That was more annoying than any pain.
I was back to work after two weeks although I can honestly say I only needed one week off but two was a nice rest. I stayed with my mom but didn’t really need any help with anything. You can’t get the bandages wet so I would run a bath- sit in it and then get out- wash my armpits with a flannel and then wash my hair over the sink.
After my two week check up my scars looked really good so we took the bandages off and it was just bare breast in sports bra. It’s been 4 weeks now and I’m still wearing the sports bra 24/7 (I have about 4) and the scars are healing so well. I did go bra-less for a birthday night out last weekend but everything was fine and I made sure to put the bra back on before I went to sleep.
I do think it would have been nice to have had my first check up with the surgeon rather than the nurse - I haven’t seen the surgeon since the op but then that is the way that they do things at the Hospital Group and although I wouldn’t change a thing about my choices of provider... you do feel a little like you are on a conveyor belt and it’s not very personal.
PROS-
1. It didn’t hurt - on a scale of one to ten with ten being the highest pain the most pain I felt was about a 5 and even that was very bearable, just like an ache after a good work out
2. The surgeon was brill, he made me feel at ease and I felt so confident in him I booked my op for two weeks after consultation
3. My breasts look 100x better, the shape is perfect, scars are healing amazing
4. My smaller areoles are now so much prettier
5. I know this sounds weird but I enjoyed the whole experience and wish I had done it years before
6. I thought I would loose a size or two but Dr Payne took skin only and no breast tissue so I still have my DD’s without implants. This was a really nice surprise when I had my first check up and the nurse told me that I lost no breast tissue.
Cons
1. I haven’t seen my surgeon since the surgery 4 weeks ago
2. The Hospital Group kind of make you feel like you are on a conveyor belt of patients
3. You have to soak your nails off before surgery (lol, I know but I’m trying to think of cons)
4. My boobs are SO numb and my nipples - I hope the feeling comes back to them
5. I wasted years hating my boobs when the solution was so easy and there the whole time
Provider Review
Dr Michael Payne MD