Money First, Patient Never.
I had a BA revision with a peri-lift and walked out with more problems than I came in with, and the issues I came in to address initially were not even addressed. I have bottoming out, displacement, and he completely botched my areolas (uneven, scar lines look like they were freehand with how all over the place they are and lack being neat and clean, no longer the same size, all problems I did not have prior to surgery.) His recommendation for how to fix it was to do things I asked about prior to the first surgery, which he swore up and down that I did not need. The price tag is almost, if not the same amount, he charged me for the first surgery! I was absolutely appalled that he wanted to charge me twice for things that, had they been done the first time, would only be a couple of hundred dollars MAX. Now, he can, with zero guilt about it, want to charge me full price in the six digit range without even including the other fees? It feels more like a money grab than genuinely caring about his patients, especially when the revision is to fix things from his surgery. If I could go back, I would never have set up a consultation or swallowed his hefty consult fee that was at the time $300. I cannot, in good faith, recommend Dr. Tutela based on my experience and instead highly recommend going elsewhere.
Not feeling them
Just roughly at the four month mark and at this point it has gone from maybe worth it to heavily leaning as not worth it. My aerola's are two different sizes, mishaped, large (they look like pepperoni's), uneven with one another, and I really wish I would have left them alone like I originally wanted. 10/10 do not reccomend a peri-lift. Breasts are still feeling and looking like two different sizes to the point where I fill a cup in a bra on one side but not the other. I really wish they would have brought me in prior to surgery for a pre-op apt and I could have pushed on a full lift instead of letting it go when not answered about it. One breast is still sitting up higher, and both will migrate to the side while laying down (especially my right) more than I would like. I do not see them getting better without a revison, but just hoping that time will tell on if it will go back to being worth it or remain as not. I'm really heartbroken and disappointed. No suggestions have been given on how to address my concerns other than to wait till I hit six months and see if I change my mind about liking them, but I am about 98% sure that is not going to happen. Aerola's wont shrink without another surgery, my breasts aren't suddenly going to sit higher and even on my chest. I would love to be proven wrong more than anything in the world though.
Trouble in Paradise
Maybe I just have some crappy luck with this stuff? I'll be seven weeks next week and the longer time passes the more seems to be going wrong again :(. My aerola's have over-stretched, are uneven and not pretty by any means with one being noticeably larger than the other. I wish they still looked the way they did from day one. I think I am in the regret stage of not sticking to not wanting to get them done because of this being a possible result. I am hoping this is something that can be fixed because it really is a confidence downer. My breasts are two different sizes and one sits higher than the other. This has made wearing bras extremely uncomfortable because the band keeps wanting to pull up on one side and up on my breast tissue instead of sitting flat on my ribcage. This, I have seen happen and things even out. So, keeping fingers crossed this is just a still dropping and fluffing issue rather than something else. I am having displacement again and am kind of kicking myself for not just pushing for an internal bra from the start. I know this is something I am going to want fixed and the only way to fix it would be having a third surgery. One breast has also fallen further down than I would have liked. It kind of freaks me out how close they are sitting to my belly button. Makes me wonder if a more extensive lift would have been better instead of taking a more minimalist approach? This stuff is so exhausting :(. I can say that the team thus far has been very sympathetic but there is unfortunately not much that can be done until at minimum the six month mark. I really hate the idea of having to sit around and be uncomfortable all over again. When you go for plastic surgery you really don't think about how much can go wrong and where Dr Tutela has been great at listening and understanding, I am in the regret phase and kind of feeling defeated that this will ever work. I wish I could have just been happy in my original body. I don't have another follow-up until March for my three month appointment. I am going to hold off on posting any updates until then. Take some time to heal in other areas until then ?.