Breast Implant Exchange with Lift and Strattice

I’m a little over 2 months post op, not a whole lot has changed. My ‘problem’ breast is still lower than the other, boxier than the other, and has the same dent. I wear silicone tapes on my scars 24/7, and thank goodness my t-junction finally healed. Something odd that’s happening is I have clear stitches poking out of my incisions all along both anchor scars, and one poking out of my t-junction breakdown site. When I run my hands down the scars, it feels like little cactus pricks. I attached some photos of them, but they’re so small it’s hard to capture. I’m not too concerned with them at the moment, however it does hinder my ability to massage my scars to help flatten them. My scars are also gnarly looking compared to other patients, but that’s just my genetics and how my skin scars, it’s at no fault of Dr Salemy. With how fair I am, scars look so bad for about 9 months, and then turn invisible out of the blue. My problem breast is also still numb, and the nipple has no sensation at all which adds to asymmetry since it doesn’t respond to cold like the other one does. So that’s fun. Maybe that will change, maybe it won’t. Im pretty numb to the disappointment at this point. A couple of people in my personal life have asked me if I regret having the surgery, and it’s a complicated question to answer. There’s an obvious improvement from what I started with to where I am now, but for the price I paid, only having one good looking breast is shocking to me. For that reason alone, I very much regret choosing Dr Salemy. His staff is wonderful, his office is lovely, the very little time I spent with him he was extremely kind, but my results speak for themselves. His lack of acknowledgment of the clear asymmetry, and lack of interest to fix his mistake is disheartening and disappointing. To be fair, he did say he’d reassess the situation at my 1 year appointment, but as I said in a previous post, it’s unlikely he’ll see the issues then if he doesn’t see it now. If something changes at my 3 month mark or 6 month mark, I will gladly eat my words and sing his praises on every review site he has, but for now my hope is completely zapped that my problem breast will soften and round out as he had told me it would. As I’m looking at all my after photos, even from my first post op pic one breast/nipple was always higher than the other. I’ll continue to post updates at every month marker

I’d like to add one helpful tip that I haven’t seen anywhere, buy Juven. Its a powder that you add to one cup of water, you can purchase it at Dr Salemy’s office, or amazon. After my t-junction breakdown, a nurse of his recommended it when I wasn’t healing as fast as I should be. I wish I had been drinking it the entire time. Its expensive, It doesn’t taste great, and it makes me a little nauseous on an empty stomach, but it WORKS. Everything heals faster, your incisions look flatter and smoother. My t-junction wound that would not scab over started improving on day 3. I wish I had known sooner, please do yourself a favor and incorporate juven into your aftercare.

I had my 6 week appointment, and I left a bit deflated. Dr salemy did tell me that my dent should go away, and I’m praying that that’s true. He said my muscle is still tight and it should soften in time. The bad news is that he thinks that the shape discrepancies of my breast and the nipples that are different shapes/heights are barely noticeable. But I notice them. He told me that he will see me in a year, which I also found a little odd compared to other surgeons who do 3 month or 6 month post op appointments. At my yearly appointment he said if both he and I agree that there need to be changes made, we’ll continue the conversation then. I didn’t leave the conversation feeling reassuring, because f he doesn’t see the inconsistencies in my boobs now, I don’t know why he would at my 1 year appointment. After the Dr left, his nurse stayed and essentially said ‘I know you didn’t receive what you wanted to hear, but your body will continue to change over time and sometimes being at different elevations/exerting yourself will make one breast swell more than the other’. that’s where I’m at. I’m mostly concerned with my nipples being at two different heights. I don’t think that will change over time, but ill continue to post updates with photos up until my one year mark.