Explant Under Local Anesthetic

I’m already mostly used to them. I have a lot more volume than I expected, they still still quite big in some shirts. I do fall out of low cut bras/bikinis easily, so finding the right cut/style is important (scoop neck/high neck is good!)
I would say that the tissue has slightly rearranged, to be less shelf like, but they are very fallen off my chest wall. Mostly the same as they were before implants tho. Some angles and lighting look a lot better than others, and when my arms are raised they look great! I will consider a lift after children in the future. Last photo shows the reality of it more, as straight on in good lighting looks quite a bit better. I am LOVING having a proper “under boob” (breast fold) back and it feels amazing to not having implants. Obviously missing the tight upper fullness, but no regrets.

Day of explant, and one week after explant.
After photo was taken in very good lighting (I have lots of loose skin and quite a shelf like appearance from the side) but pretty happy!!
I miss the upper fullness but sooo happy to have a lower breast fold back (underboob)
With implants I had deformities in my breast fold, when I raised my arm it was completely lumpy and visible on the lower half of my breasts.

I got implants placed in 2015 to help fill out the loose skin after losing 60 pounds. I never wanted big boobs, but I was told that implants would be the best option over a lift. I now feel a lift and no implants would have been better. I missed my small chest immediately and still had loose skin over my implants.
After 6 years with my silicone under the muscle implants, I decided to have them removed.
I had seen people mention having them removed under local so I decided to ask about it. I was pleased to find out the cost would be 50% less, and it seemed like the right choice for me.
As a bonus, my private health insurance paid for most of the surgery!
I am not a squeamish person, and often watch surgery videos. I also have worked in dental surgery my whole adult life, so the idea of this did not bother me. Many people thought I was crazy but the few reviews I read on here, people had a great experience. I also found a few videos online of people having implant removal under local and the patients seemed very comfortable and happy.
I wanted to have my implants removed for various reasons - I had complications with them from the beginning (had an immediate revision, which was semi fixed but not completely) severe animation deformity, bottoming out, lump visible implants on the lower half, no proper breast fold, they were also much bigger than I ever wanted.
After developing chronic back pain from my career, I decided that I no longer wanted the added weight of implants. I am thinking of starting to have children next year, and the thought of huge breast milk filled chest with implants, and my back pain, scared me of pregnancy.
I was not nervous at all until an hour before surgery, I noticed that I had major butterflies and my body was starting to involuntarily shake with nerves.
The whole procedure went so fast, I was in and out of the surgical centre within 2 hours. The procedure took around 30 minutes, and was not bad at all.
The most painful part was the numbing, but overall it was no worse then any other time you get needles. After that, I felt a tiny bit of heat from cautery, and tugging. When the implants them self were removed, I felt way less pressure then I had expected from videos I had watched. The weirdest part was the feeling when he was flushing the pockets out with saline. They put a drape up so I could not see, although I had kind of wanted to.
I walked right out of the surgical centre about one hour after my surgery, and went to the pharmacy with my husband - I was feeling fine.
That night I only slept 5 hours, as I have a very difficult time sleeping on my back. The pain the next day was worse now that the numbing and adrenaline was all gone.
The pain was way less than the augmentation tho, mainly just pain at the incisions.
The surgeon said my surgery was very straight forward and clean and he was very happy with it. He also mentioned if it was his family member he would suggest this route as well. He does en bloc procedures as well, and I respect people’s reason for wanting that, but there are risks involved with that as well. He had done one that morning on someone with an incredibly thin capsule like me, and he said in the end he couldn’t even remove it all safely as it was adhered to the back of her chest wall near her lungs. Capsule removal is a personal choice and for me, this made sense.
I was expecting my chest to look quite bad, as before augmentation I had lots of loose skin. So far,
It is a little worse then before my original surgery but I am excited to see how it changes. Loving the small chest so far! Feels amazing to not have unnatural water balloons under my skin.