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If You’re on the Fence, and It’s on Your Mind, This is Your Sign to Do It!
Sorry in advance for all of these details/length of this, but I thought it may help someone that is like me and scouring RealSelf to see what peoples experiences were like.
My breasts have always been my biggest insecurity about my body, as they’ve always been very small - and people would actually make comments on them to me, feeding into that insecurity. I didn’t feel feminine. I had thought about getting an augmentation for awhile, but kept telling myself I would do it after I had kids. Well, it was finally on my mind often enough that I decided to get a consult with Dr. Hodge after knowing a few women who have gone to him. I figured it couldn’t hurt to gather information. I was very nervous for it although I knew he did this every single day. All of my worries went away when he came in the room and started talking through the process, took his measurements and answered my (many) questions. He might be the most professional physician I’ve personally experienced. His bedside manner was phenomenal (he even laughed at my bad/nervous jokes) & he’s extremely respectful. One of the things I liked most about him was his ability to listen. My boyfriend was in the room with me, and Dr Hodge looked at/communicated with me the whole time - he recognized this was something for me, not for my boyfriend. I walked away feeling so confident in him and the procedure that I pretty much knew I was going to be scheduling a surgery date. I waited until the next day to get it scheduled, just to give it a day to think about it. I got scheduled just over a month from then and was anxiously waiting the day that I deemed at “B-Day” lol.
Leading up to it I scanned real self and any other sites I could find to get people who were about my size (5’10” ~145lbs, athletic & barely a 34B in push up bras) to try and figure out my size, profile and whether to go under or over the muscle. At my initial consultation I was between 385ccs and 415ccs and was wanting to be about a full 34C and nothing too big for my body/that looked unnatural. I ended up deciding that I was going to go 415, high profile and under the muscle. The method was probably the toughest decision as I had heard people who workout a lot can have some issues with the pec muscle pulling the implant away from the midline of the body if they do a lot of lifting on the chest, but I was concerned that over the muscle would look too unnatural on me because I didn’t have a ton of natural breast tissue.
Fast forward to the day of surgery and I’m soooo excited but also a little nervous because I’ve never had surgery before. I was also nervous for what I’ve seen people refer to as Frankenboobs - ha!
It was easy, Dr Hodge told my boyfriend after the surgery that I’d be a little more sore for a couple of extra days longer because I was very muscular in my chest area. While I was a little sore, I was really impressed with how they looked even a day after surgery, I thought they’d look much more frankenboob-esq. They were definitely tight/sore for a few days, and I unfortunately had a business trip I had to take 5 days post surgery, which I wish I hadn’t had. What I wasn’t expecting was all of the little movements you don’t think about that you use your chest for you’re much more aware of post surgery.
The only “bad” thing that happened, which he was more upset about than I was, was that the paper tape had some sort of reaction with my skin on the top of my breast, likely due to all of the stretching (the little pink marks above my nipples in the pictures). It really didn’t bother me much, I think Dr Hodge was more upset about it than I was lol.
I started doing some light workouts (lower body) around 2 weeks post op, but before that I was just trying to get out and walk everyday at least a little bit. Around a month I started to incorporate some really light upper body stuff and pretty much get back to normal workouts depending how I felt, I plan on taking upper body slow for awhile just to make sure I don’t mess anything up.
Now I am 7 weeks post surgery, measuring at a very full 34C, and loving everything even more as they get more into place. I barely even feel like there’s anything foreign in my chest anymore. The first few weeks you could definitely tel there was “something” there, but I don’t notice it now. Also, I have to give a huge shoutout to Kimber, she is amazing, she was soooo helpful through the process and answered all of my millions of questions.
The first few weeks I took a lot of pictures to gauge progression, but I have slowed down with that quite a bit in the last month.
My 1 day and 4 day post op pictures won’t upload for some reason.
My breasts have always been my biggest insecurity about my body, as they’ve always been very small - and people would actually make comments on them to me, feeding into that insecurity. I didn’t feel feminine. I had thought about getting an augmentation for awhile, but kept telling myself I would do it after I had kids. Well, it was finally on my mind often enough that I decided to get a consult with Dr. Hodge after knowing a few women who have gone to him. I figured it couldn’t hurt to gather information. I was very nervous for it although I knew he did this every single day. All of my worries went away when he came in the room and started talking through the process, took his measurements and answered my (many) questions. He might be the most professional physician I’ve personally experienced. His bedside manner was phenomenal (he even laughed at my bad/nervous jokes) & he’s extremely respectful. One of the things I liked most about him was his ability to listen. My boyfriend was in the room with me, and Dr Hodge looked at/communicated with me the whole time - he recognized this was something for me, not for my boyfriend. I walked away feeling so confident in him and the procedure that I pretty much knew I was going to be scheduling a surgery date. I waited until the next day to get it scheduled, just to give it a day to think about it. I got scheduled just over a month from then and was anxiously waiting the day that I deemed at “B-Day” lol.
Leading up to it I scanned real self and any other sites I could find to get people who were about my size (5’10” ~145lbs, athletic & barely a 34B in push up bras) to try and figure out my size, profile and whether to go under or over the muscle. At my initial consultation I was between 385ccs and 415ccs and was wanting to be about a full 34C and nothing too big for my body/that looked unnatural. I ended up deciding that I was going to go 415, high profile and under the muscle. The method was probably the toughest decision as I had heard people who workout a lot can have some issues with the pec muscle pulling the implant away from the midline of the body if they do a lot of lifting on the chest, but I was concerned that over the muscle would look too unnatural on me because I didn’t have a ton of natural breast tissue.
Fast forward to the day of surgery and I’m soooo excited but also a little nervous because I’ve never had surgery before. I was also nervous for what I’ve seen people refer to as Frankenboobs - ha!
It was easy, Dr Hodge told my boyfriend after the surgery that I’d be a little more sore for a couple of extra days longer because I was very muscular in my chest area. While I was a little sore, I was really impressed with how they looked even a day after surgery, I thought they’d look much more frankenboob-esq. They were definitely tight/sore for a few days, and I unfortunately had a business trip I had to take 5 days post surgery, which I wish I hadn’t had. What I wasn’t expecting was all of the little movements you don’t think about that you use your chest for you’re much more aware of post surgery.
The only “bad” thing that happened, which he was more upset about than I was, was that the paper tape had some sort of reaction with my skin on the top of my breast, likely due to all of the stretching (the little pink marks above my nipples in the pictures). It really didn’t bother me much, I think Dr Hodge was more upset about it than I was lol.
I started doing some light workouts (lower body) around 2 weeks post op, but before that I was just trying to get out and walk everyday at least a little bit. Around a month I started to incorporate some really light upper body stuff and pretty much get back to normal workouts depending how I felt, I plan on taking upper body slow for awhile just to make sure I don’t mess anything up.
Now I am 7 weeks post surgery, measuring at a very full 34C, and loving everything even more as they get more into place. I barely even feel like there’s anything foreign in my chest anymore. The first few weeks you could definitely tel there was “something” there, but I don’t notice it now. Also, I have to give a huge shoutout to Kimber, she is amazing, she was soooo helpful through the process and answered all of my millions of questions.
The first few weeks I took a lot of pictures to gauge progression, but I have slowed down with that quite a bit in the last month.
My 1 day and 4 day post op pictures won’t upload for some reason.
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