Time To Be All Natural! Dx with Pre cancer so I decided to explant for better imaging and implant issues.

I wish these pics depicted what they actually look like. They look so big in the pics. They are very small and perky which I love. My right breast has been giving me a headache for sure. It continues to ache more and have more nerve pain than the left which barely bothers me at all. It was the side that had a lot of pain before surgery tho. I’m not taking meds anymore. So over that crap. My sternum is very sore. The only thing I can think is that my incisions meet there so I’m being irritated by the steri strips and that there was a lot of pressure during the surgery. I’m so excited to get these strips off today because they’re so annoying and cause chaffing and pain under my breasts. I know it will be a huge relief to have them removed. I’m finding that it’s so exciting to be able to button up shirts and not look obscene or have popping buttons. I have a cute nice color post surgical bra that is a 36C and it’s too large in the cups by a bit. I know it’s only been ten days so I’m sure I’ll shrink a bit more making me a solid 36B. I’ve also lost about 5 lbs since surgery. My pregnant looking belly has started to shrink thank god. I was so bloated and it was so embarrassing! I feel liberated with my smaller breasts and can’t wait to start working out when we get back from our vacation to Nicaragua in 2.5 weeks. I get to shop for new bras and bikinis next week! Yay!

Been a rough but good week. I had my surgery last Friday and the first few days after are a blur. My surgeon is amazing and gave me exactly what I wanted and they’re so cute! Right now, I am a 36B. I was a 36G. I love love love my results and feel so much better. My pain that I had in the right breast is gone and the chest pain that was behind my rt breast is gone. I do feel like the surgical pain is lasting longer than I had hoped. My surgeon did say he took the capsule off of my chest wall so maybe that’s why my chest muscles feel so sore. I had overs so I’m not sure how that works. My sternum is pretty sore still because my incisions meet there. I have a lot of nerve activity that sometimes takes my breathe away but it’s quick. My tiny little breasts are very sore and don’t like me right now. I remember only having to take pain meds for a week after my lift/BA and having leftovers but I’m not that lucky this time lol. My reduction was big for me because I wasn’t ever that large naturally to begin with. He took 200gm per side, leaving me a 36B which is what I wanted. I wake up very sore and a bit swollen from lying flat (even tho I start propped up, I never can seem to stay that way) in the morning and by nighttime Tylenol isn’t enough. My husband keeps telling me to take my pain pills cause that’s what they’re for but I’m so over them. I’ve been on them for months for the chest/breast pain and I don’t want to take them anymore but I know the body does heal better with less stress from pain so I still take a couple of the pills every day at my husbands prodding. I’m hoping a few more days and I’ll be good with just Tylenol or the occasional Tramadol I take for bad IBS flare ups. My left implant was ruptured but there wasn’t really any loose silicone so that’s good. My nodes have lots of microscopic silicone droplets in them that makes them react and swell. I’ve noticed they’ve been pretty swollen this week which is to be expected. I’m hoping they shrink and I don’t have to have that surgery. I hear it’s awful. Another reason I’m glad I had the reduction is that they found more ADH in my left breast in the reduction pathology. This means I have a very high chance of developing breast cancer in either breast now according to the New England Journal of Medicine . I’ll see the breast cancer dr for my MRI in November for a baseline MRI with the new girls so we’ll discuss the plan then unless I have to see her sooner for the nodes.
I’m super happy that my surgeon is so meticulous and clean. He didn’t leave me a mess and all bloody and goopy like I’ve seen so many others. I was all clean and didn’t have to walk around with a mess till I could shower. He also used glue covered with steri strips which were very clean and neat looking. I only have a couple stitches he has to remove on Tuesday. I feel very fortunate to have had such a wonderful surgeon and he was so sweet to me and sat with my husband afterwards and explained everything to him.

I had some new symptoms and I didn’t want anything to mess with my surgery so I went in to the breast surgeon the other day because I had such bad pain in my right axilla and breast (I know they’re sick of seeing me lol). I knew my dr had mentioned my node on the rt was slightly enlarged on my last mri so I thought it/they had grown. US showed one larger than normal node but it looked good otherwise. No silicone like the left side. Maybe just reacting to the inflammation so it was not that causing my pain. I was so glad because I may already have to get a few nodes out on the left in another surgery. The radiologist went to look at my prior MRI to get a better feel for my breasts and came in to tell me I have a late seroma which is a fluid pocket. I also have one area in my breast where I guess I have an area of fibrous tissue rubbing on the seroma. It’s so weird looking at my ultrasound pics, because I can see that one area at 9’o’clock where the tissue looks different from all of the rest of my breast. The radiologist thinks the increased pain and weird feelings was from the swelling and the fibrous tissue rubbing on my capsule. I also had weird vibrations in my breast which I had never had b4. I’ll be so glad when this is all over. I added a few pics. I’m sure the sight of my heavily tattooed boobs is a shock lol.

I’m bummed I wasn’t able to wait longer for my surgery due to the pain, because I really wanted to lose some weight first. I’ve already lost a couple pounds and hope I’m down a couple more b4 Friday. Taking out the implants, and the reduction will probably make me another 3/4 lbs lighter too. Yay!
I’m surprised Im a bit nervous. I don’t usually get all nervous and emotional. I feel that I’ve been very fortunate tho and had two good breast surgeries with great results. I love my surgeon and trust him fully, but I’m hoping I’ll be just as fortunate as the last two times with great results. Also, with the presence of painful fluid and intermittent swelling and the bizarre symptoms, I worry about BIA-ALCL. My surgeon will send everything for pathology, especially since I’ve had ADH previously.
My husband and I are going to Nicaragua for 2.5 weeks mid July so I have four weeks to heal. We rented a villa in downtown Granada so it’s not like I have to do anything other than swim, if Im allowed, walk around, and relax. My husband said he’ll be my vacay Sherpa lol I’m so fortunate to have such a wonderful and supportive husband. He said he’s gonna wear a “I love tiny boobies and tattoos” shirt to my surgery lol.

A lot of ladies talk about all of these terrible mystery illness issues with their implants but I never had those issues. The only thing I have noticed since I got my implants is that I seem to have such a hard time losing weight. It could be that I got them when I turned 30 and Getting older can make it more difficult, but it seems so weird that it is just so hard for me now. When I was 30, I weighed 134. Now, I’m 39, and weight 178 and I’ve tried off and on over the years with diet and exercise but I can’t ever seem to lose more than a handful of pounds unless I try to starve myself. I don’t drink soda, don’t eat a lot of junk, and can’t remember the last time I ate fast food. To help me lose weight before surgery, I’ve cut almost all carbs. Seems to work, but it’s just another type of diet and I’m not sure it’s realistic long term. We bought a rowing machine, so when I’m all healed up, I’ll finally be able to use it and hopefully have an easier time shedding some of this extra weight. At the very least, my boobs won’t get in the way lol. I used to be so svelte and cute!