42 years old, explanting 16 year old saline 680cc!

The pain is significant. She had to do a little more removal of capsule than originally anticipated. I'm glad that she took the time to do that! I buckled and took a Percocet. I never do well with pain meds, but I had a nausea patch put on for the anesthesia anyway. So I'm sure that's helping! Very relieved this is over. But now I need to heal!

I have my explant later today, but wanted to post a before pic with my deflated silicone shells in. My skin is hanging, the pectoral muscles are very visible and then it's just concave right to my ribs. Not pretty by any stretch of the imagination. But, no regrets! It feels great to not be huge anymore and I'll be so happy to get these out, and be comfortable once again! Then I'm hoping for some skin retraction over the next few months before I move onto the next step.

I've been wanting these implants out for quite some time. I was never happy with them. The original surgeon I used went way too big and they've never been symmetrical. They're too overfilled, firm, and fake looking!
I saw Dr. Christine Kelley for a consultation and she was extremely courteous, patient, and thorough is going over medical history, and goals for surgery. She did not try to push new implants on me at all. I had my implants deflated Jan. 31 and was planning on waiting anywhere from few weeks up to a couple months to have them removed, capsulectomy, a lift, and perhaps fat grafting.
Unfortunately, leaving these large implants inside me while deflated is causing too much pain and discomfort. I've had them deflated for a week, and will be having a simple explant today. I'll then let the skin retract for a few months and then decide on the lift vs lift and fat grafting. I'm already loving the feeling of no large globes on my chest! However, what's left over is a mess.
I'm only posting because most of the ladies on here seem to be left with beautiful explant results. Very few have my situation which is VERY LITTLE breast tissue, thin skin, really huge implants and concave, sagging bags of skin leftover. Hopefully somebody else will feel this is helpful! Yikes, it's a scary process.