Breast Lift with Gummy Bear Tear Drop Shaped

At first I loved Dr Moore and his staff (especially his staff!) From the time I booked my consultation until a couple weeks after my surgery, I was more than happy with him and his office. It took about 3 days to be nearly pain free (the first 3 were terribly painful, Dr Moore does not prescribe any type of pain medicine, so I did go to my PCP for some medicine for those few days. I didn’t mind that he didn’t prescribe any, I don’t know his reasoning but it’s his decision as a provider to make). 5 days after my surgery I was essentially pain free until my (drunk) friend gave me a hug and squeezed so tight, she made my incision bleed on my right breast (just a little and then it stopped) and I started getting sharp pains up and down my incision site. I had to take over the counter pain medicine to calm down pain to a more achey feeling. I had my follow up appointment a few days so I waited until then to discuss with my Dr. At the follow up appointment, it was just his Nurse Practitioner, no Dr. So I told her what happened and she advised me to have the Dr look at it, so they scheduled a new appointment with him. A couple of days later, I noticed the implant on the right was dropping a lot faster than the other and it was still painful. As long as I have the breast supported, it’s ok but I can’t go very long, I would say a couple of minutes without a bra before it really starts hurting. So I decided to call to see if I should be concerned or not, they told me no, that they can drop at different times and I shouldn’t really worry about it. So I waited until my appointment. I had to wait over an hour before I watched Dr Moore pull in the parking lot and come in the building, after that, I waited another 30 before he came into my waiting room. I told him what happened and he told me that she wouldn’t have been able to cause that much damage (I think he underestimated just how hard she squeezed me) and that he doesn’t “see” anything wrong and that he won’t preform reconstructive surgery until after a year post op. After both of these appointments I left feeling like they didn’t listen to me or seem to care that I was in pain. His nurse practitioner looked at me like I was crazy and seemed like she was trying to act like she cared but didn’t actually care.
At about 3 months post op, I was still in pain and my left implant was so low that my nipple was essentially sitting on top of the implant. (My nipple is ridiculously high and it looks terrible) At this point I was starting to see what the shape of my nipples would be and where they would sit. My left nipple is in a circle but it’s an off center circle… so my nipple isn’t centered in my areola. I am OCD as they come and I knew not to expect perfectionism but I mean, come on… this wasn’t a healing issue or how it positioned after the surgery, it 100% looks like he just didn’t give two [RS bleep] when he cut the shape. The left side isn’t great either.. that one is high AF and is a weird oval shape. That one I could see being an issue of how the skin settled and just how it healed but with how shitty the right is, I am not going to give him too much credit on the left. But the left doesn’t bother me on shape as much as it is the placement. So I go in for my 3 month appointment, that again was with his NP and essentially just to take photos (I don’t know why, they don’t seem to care what they look like or how they’re healing). I was upset at the appointment because I just got brushed off again. The NP just looked at me with this confused look judgmental look. I asked about a revision and how much that would cost. She said (and Dr Moore said at the pre op appointment) that they only charge for anesthesia and surgery cost, that Dr Moore doesn’t charge for his time, so around $1,200. I left upset but it didn’t seem to faze them.
Fast forward to 6 months, no change…. Still in pain, still have weird ass nipples, and still not listened too. At this appointment the NP had a second employee come in (I am not sure of her position/roll) to look at the left breast to see if she had an opinion, they both said that they had never heard of this before and they are just dumbfounded. How???? How could out of all of the breast lifts they do, no one else in their entire medical career have this issue?? I felt like a mystery diagnosis case but nobody have a [RS bleep] to figure out what it was. This time I left in tears, I felt beyond stupid. I felt like this was all in my head and there wasn’t really an issue, they made me feel like I was not ok mentally (which who knows, maybe I’m not lol). I called my husband crying, he told me to call and speak to someone, maybe someone else could help but I shouldn’t leave their office feeling that bad, it wasn’t ok. I called the office and the reception for a different practice (in the same location) tried to help. She was so sweet and understanding. She gave me the office mana gets cell phone to see if she could help. She ended up texting me back and asked for me to send in some photos. It’s obvious that the left is stretched more, red, and looks like the implant is putting too much pressure on the bottom half of my breast. She replied with “oh yeah, we need to get you evened up!” Then she sent me a few more messages about her daughter and how she had just had a baby, she even sent me a picture of him. I think it was to try and get me to calm down but the reasons for me being upset were not addressed, instead I felt again like a mental patient that they were showing shinny things to, to distract me from my emotions. Never heard back from her.
At 9 months post op, still the same…. Getting real sick of it at this point (not just the pain and nipples but them not seeming to care, be concerned, or understanding or even to flat out try to figure out what is wrong.) Again it is the NP and photos. She asked if there were any changes and I said no, still the same, I can’t go 5 minutes without a bra. At this point I am just over it, I didn’t even care to try at this appointment, I knew I would be brushed off and I only had 3 months left until my year mark. To my surprise, the NP (and I am assuming this whole time that she is a Nurse Practitioner, I could be very wrong) offered an ultra sound as an option to try and see why it’s so painful.
I’m going to go on a side note real quick… I mean, I am no medical expert and I have zero experience in the medical field. However I do believe I am an intelligent person and I like to think I have pretty good common sense as well… So this is my nonprofessional option of what happened. I think the surgery went great, excluding the off center nipple... but when my friend squeezed me so tightly, she tore internal stitches, that then didn’t give the support the implant needed while my body headed. So that caused the implant to drop too quickly because it was putting too much pressure on my incision, that then stretched and allowed the implant to go even further down than it was supposed to. Now I could be 100% wrong but what I don’t get is how the Dr or his staff could not come up with one possible cause for my pain or even believe me for that matter.
Ok, back to my review… I tell her that I would like to do the ultrasound. She asked what hospital was closest to me, I told her and she said that she would send a prescription for one and follow up with me…. she didn’t. I made my year follow up and specifically on Dr Moore’s schedule.
I was so excited to be so close to my one year post op. This is was what I had been waiting for and It just so happened to be a couple of days before my birthday. Their office is located close to my husbands work, so we made lunch plans for after the appointment. I requested the time off work and a little extra for a longer lunch.
The night before my appointment I received a confirmation text about my appointment but it was for a much earlier time… I was confused because I could have sworn it was much later. I logged on to check my time off request, and sure enough, I had made it for later in the day. Irritated I couldn’t do much about it since it was the night before and they scheduled me for first thing in the morning. I get to the appointment and it’s with a woman I have never met before or had seen in the office. She takes me in, takes the photos and then goes to leave, like the appointment is over. I’m now irritated and confused. I ask her when the Dr will be in and she tells me that he won’t be, I’m not on his schedule but she could schedule an appointment with him for later. I’m [RS bleep], I just drove over an hour for an appointment that I had specifically made with the Dr for this check up and for a specific concern. She apologized and said that all she knew was I was on her schedule for that morning. It seemed like they rescheduled my appointment without telling me to accommodate the Drs schedule. I explain to her that I have been waiting a year for this appointment and how far I have to drive each time, plus the time off work. She checked with the front office and said they could squeeze me in, in about an hour. So my husband and I leave and decide to do a breakfast instead of the lunch he had planned for us. We get some food and come back, we wait for about another hour in the exam room. I am now missing more work than I had scheduled and needed to get back, so I am starting to stress. Finally Dr Moore comes in and tells me that he can do the surgery but he doesn’t know what or how much good it will do. He said that breast tissue is like wet tissue paper and he can try adding some permanent sutures in and hope that helps but he has no idea what is wrong with my left breast. Then when I brought up the nipples, he acted like I insulted him and the said yeah, it’s definitely high and above the implant but it’s no big deal and I am just being picky at that point. He then says that his assistant will get the quote for the revision and he left. A bit later she came back in with a quote of $6,200! I’m like how in the hell is it 6 grand for a couple of stitches?? He had said he only charges the surgery cost which is $1,200 (previously quoted). My husband suggested that since this girl was new, she might have been mistaken and maybe double check with the office. So I message the office manager and she told me she would look in to it and get back to me. A couple of weeks pass, so I message her again. She apologized and said that she will let me know soon. That was two months ago and I have heard nothing since. I have no follow ups scheduled and they won’t return my calls or texts regarding the revision. I decided that if I was going to pay that much to have it fixed, I’m going to find a new Dr that actual knows what he is doing and might have some answers or ideas for what has happened to me. I can’t be the only one that has had this happen.
It seems like this Dr just wants your money and then he is good. He doesn’t seem to care about his patients or their well-being. I don’t regret my surgery, I love having my boobs not sagging to my elbows or one nipple pointed down while the other looks off to the side (breast feeding destroyed my boobs). But I do regret who I choose for my surgeon. I can’t change the past and I can’t make them care but maybe my experience can help someone else have a much better one with a different Dr. Dr Moore is very charismatic, he makes you feel comfortable and like you can trust him but my reality with him was completely different.