Silicone cohesive gel under muscle, 36 yo 1 child

Dr. Richards and his staff have still been so attentive and helpful, I am still so very happy with my choice.

Good news, doc inspected the hard knot that runs from under my breast toward my arm pit where it was bruised and swollen and it’s normal and ok. Mild heat compress away from the incision and implant, on that rib area, as well as going without the bra and ice compress has helped reduce the swelling a bit. I got worried but the girls are doing good.

Pain now feels like full nursing breasts for sure. Hurts a bit not to wear a bra after a bit at this point but it’s so necessary because my side and ribs are so tender.

Hello fellow RS’ers. I’ll give you the run down on the good, the bad, & the ugly (queue music).
The good: looking great for less than a week. I think I’ll be very happy with the size. Yeah I had the boob greed in a major way but that’s because part of me wants to walk around all va-va-voom sometimes. Key word- sometimes. I feel like I’ll still look quite natural in a bathing suit or work clothes or everything and if I want to go Jessica rabbit I can still probably rock a big ol push up bra.
The bad: oooowwwwwww! I’m so happy for you all that I still read reviews like the pain was really not bad at all, no more pain a 4 days, etc. morning boob for me has been sitting up and gravity feeling like hot pokers or something in the incision areas and such. Getting up out of bed still hurts and Some other things but this could be due to “the ugly”. Tylenol does help though!
The ugly: I’ve got some swelling and bruising that I hadn’t seen any pics before on RS. I sent pics in to Dr. Richards office yesterday. They immediately showed him and he said it looks to be normal but changed the time of my 1 week follow up so he can see me. It’s painful because it’s bruising that’s right along the bra band area. I’ve attached pics. I’ll post tomorrow when I find out what the deal is.

Hey there. So I was wearing the surgical bra they sent me home I last night, per dr office advice it’s best to have something g with some shape support so fortunately I didn’t wash my BC bras and will send them back. But when I removed the surgical bra it stuck to the incision tape or something and holy heck I thought the worst was happening. It BURNED I tell you. I called this morning as I didn’t have any bleeding and they said if the pain continues to come in. They recommended a layer of gauze to protect the incision areas & tape from bras rubbing which I’ll do. I’m sporting the danskin zip-up sports bra from walmart and it seems to be adequate support for my size.
So boob greed. I showed my wish pics to the Dr before surgery and I must have misunderstood someone somewhere along the line because I wanted to make sure that my implant choice would get me to the size that I wanted. He was saying well we could go up in CCs but my understanding from Misty was that the CC has more to do with the implant diameter for the cohesive gels. He said that a moderate or a full profile in the same cc would result in the same cup volume but the moderate is actually a larger implant that would give me a better slope and upper pole volume. It was kind of like well we can go up to “x” ccs if you want but.. so I went with his recommendation of 375 moderate and he thinks I’ll be happy w that, and again, he’s seen my pics. I don’t like when people do that. When I request expert guidance I don’t like people treating me that they’ll oblige if I insist on something. But at the end he is confident in our voice and he is an artist, thats part of why I picked him.
Right now though, as you can see, although it’s WAY too early to make a final assessment of size and shape, I don’t have a ton of implant way up high to drop into a bigger & full breast. Or do I? Rn I look exactly the same as when I wore my moderately (not really even super bombshell style) padded bra before surgery, which is not what I wanted. I just don’t see that they can get much bigger. I’m thrilled that they’ll be fuller and so on but I was hoping for something a bit more voluptuous that what I’ll get.
We shall see how things pan out! Keep on keepin on ladies and one last thing- buy some glycerin suppositories. :( all the fiber drinks and stool softeners in the world aren’t getting rid of my bloated and full abdomen.