560cc / 535cc Boob Job HP Mentor MemoryGel Xtra 5’4” 130lbs

Hi everyone! So excited to finally be feeling like myself again. I’m ready to share and track my experience with you all. RealSelf has been so valuable in my research leading up to my surgery and I am looking forward to helping other women with their journeys as well.

Can’t believe tomorrow makes 4 weeks post! The girls are looking so amazing already. My surgeon far exceeded my expectations. I didn’t have much of an under boob which they refer to as “constricted breasts” and the research I did on before and afters left me worried how they would turn out. I’m so incredibly thankful that they turned out perfect! And it’s only been a month. I still have some bruising on the lower halves of my boobs as they continue to drop and they are softening (the upper area is softening faster). I had my staples removed from my nipples yesterday and I get my stitches removed next week. I love them SO MUCH and am so thankful for my surgeon doing such spectacular work.

A day or two after my 4 week update my worse bruised on the lower corner of my right breast opened. I took off my surgical bra at the end of the day and the bruise was leaking. I got a culture and all they could find was yeast. I got on antibiotics. A week later it was still leaking and two more areas on the bruise opened/were leaking. I got a topical antibiotic cream. Then 5 weeks post op, (a week ago) one of the spots that was leaking open to where the implant was exposed. My surgeon had me come in that day for an explant of that right implant. Upon explant my surgeon said there was a film around the implant. I spent 3 days in the hospital waiting on cultures and doing a bunch of blood work and tests. The only thing that came back was candida globrata. I got on antibiotics and anti fungal as candida/yeast is a fungus. The following Friday I came in for a check up and we could feel a hole in the bruise on the left intact breast on the side of my nipple. So we assumed it was the same thing and got the left implant removed as well. This is kind of a mystery and the surgeon and doctors best guess is that my candida levels went crazy due to antibiotics (like how you’re likely to get yeast infections after taking antibiotics) and that my immune system viewed the candida globrata as a forgoing object and went in overdrive and ate through the thin areas that were bruised. This has all the doctors involved kind of scratching their heads. The plan is to keep a drain in for 1 week, have it removed, and reaugment in about 5 months after I can heal and be sure the fungus infection is gone. At this point I’m just sad to be without my boobs. They were just starting to look great and I got the go ahead to stop using surgical bras and compression bands. I was so excited to start wearing all my cute new clothes. Before we reaugment in 5 months they’re going to put me on anti fungals to prevent this from happened if again. That’s all I’m worried about- this happening again.