Complications Can Happen Even with Great Dr.

Complcations happen. My story. Iv waited a good while to post my story. I am 6 months post op now and wanted anyone reading this to have a good information when making decisions about surgery . Dr. Johnny Solomon performed Explant with lollypop lift . I had had my implants in for 20 years . I had longed to have them removed for at least 15 of those twenty years. They looked great but just not for me. So my first advice to young girls is maybe just don't do it. I would say probably 70% of my friends who had implants done when they were younger all want them out now. So when a friend of mine had hers removed with Johnny I was paying close attention. She had no complications and results were great so I decided to do it ! Everything went as scheduled in the surgery. I was fine and had minimal pain. I never took any of the pain meds.
About a month post surgery my right breast filled with inflammation or Seroma as they call it. The dr immediately had me come in and they had to insert a needle thru the chest area and drain the seroma... yes OUCH :( but even worse is the fact that unfortunately I got used to it. The seroma kept coming back so the draining twice a week became my new norm. From what the dr. explained usually he drains just a few times and it stops but not in my case. After no end in sight he decided to insert a drain that I would need to go home with for a couple weeks. Double OUCH .That procedure I could never get used to. Even though he injected some numbing, it was really painful, and I have a pretty high tolerance for pain. So then 2 weeks with the drain in me and it did not help so it was removed and he went back to draining with the needle weekly. This went on for 4 months.. At this point I was sure I was going to need surgery again. I let the doctor guide me and tried to have faith . After about 4 or 5 months suddenly it did start to dry up and the cavity closed.
At this point I was left with alot of scar tissue and one slightly deformed breast. The scar tissue pulls especially when i raise that arm. It is uncomfortable and doesn't look great but at least no more draining . Im still not really sure why this happened but I think it may be from a little bit of that thin lining that was not removed. And I will say that some doctors don't remove it because they feel like that would leave more damage inside. I think they make that decision based on what they see when they go in.
So in closing if you ask me would I still have done it had I known all this ...I probably would say yes. I really did not want to have implants inside my body anymore.I just wanted to feel like my natural self . So for me even with the complications It was worth it . Just go into it with the knowledge that these things can happen and even with a great doctor you could find yourself in a similar situation. I really like Dr. Johnny Solomon and I still have hope that maybe that one breast will get better with time. Dr.Solomon has said he has a laser in his office that he says could help, but it's pricy and so we will see.
I hope this has been helpful to somebody.Im happy to talk to anyone who has any questions. I wish there would have been somebody out there with a similar issue that I could have talked to . Goid Luck