Little Help Please - United Kingdom, GB

Hi! I have not been through surgery yet. Mine is scheduled for next Tuesday. Anywho I think it is impossible to figure out size before talking with your doctor. The doc needs to see your anatomy and figure out what will work best for you based on what you tell him or her that you want. I am 5'4 and 128lbs going from a small A to a full c or small D and I am getting 425cc moderate plus silicone. I had a baby 11 months ago and breast fed for 6 so I understand how you feel. If you want to check out size before your consult I would start looking at the before and afters and try to find some pics that are close to what your breasts look like before and see if you like the size of the after photos. I have heard that it helps to take in a pic of what your goal is and your doc can tell you what is realistic based off of your consult and your anatomy. I hope it goes well for you!

Hi, Cookie. You're smart to seek personal advice before making a decision, and this is a great forum for that. I got mine done almost 7 weeks ago now, and I wasn't much bigger than you before. As far as cup size goes, it varies from one woman to the next. Cup size is actually based in part upon the size of your rib cage, so knowing that measurement is helpful. It also depends on the final measurement around the fullest part of your breasts, which may vary depending on which profile you end up with. The higher the profile, the narrower the base. My doc's suggestion proved to be a good one: try on several different sizes in the office (mine gave me a sports bra and t-shirt to use), and choose which ever size gives you the look you want in clothes. They'll probably give you the standard round implants, but your doc should have a recommendation as to which profile you need based on your rib cage. I got 400cc silicone high profile, but my rib cage is only 27 inches, and I have fairly wide cleavage, so anything but HP would have been too wide. Less than 400cc didn't give me the volume I wanted. I ended up being about a DDD to F by US sizing (depending on the bra manufacturer), which I think equates to about an F to G in UK (the letters go up as the band size goes down, and I'm a 30 to 32 band size). Check my user profile on this site for pics and see what you think. That's probably more info than you were looking for, but hopefully it helps. Let me know if there's anything else you want to know...I'm happy to help if I can! :)

Are you having your surgery done in the UK? I know here in the states a lot of the plastic surgeons offices work with a program that allows for making payments instead of a lump sum. Maybe you guys have something like that just not at the surgeons office that you went to. You might want to do a little more research if that is a concern that you have. It definitely is a large sum to pay all at once. I know all doctors offices are different. My first consult was with my doctor and was free and then I had to pay a down payment to book the surgery.

For what it's worth, I concur with Cherie29. it sounds like it would be worth searching for other reputable plastic surgeons in the area to see who is willing to offer payment plans for their patients. My doc charged a nonrefundable fee of $500 to book the surgery, but I didn't have to pay the balance until two weeks before the surgery date. I can understand them wanting to get the money up front, but I would think someone ought to be willing to let you make payments up until the date of your surgery. Oh, and yes, you can do anything you could do before, and I bet you could go up more than two sizes if you wanted to. I got 400cc silicones under the muscle six and a half weeks ago, and I've been doing push-ups at the gym this week with no trouble at all. I also went from a 32A to a 32E. I've had babies too, but I never got bigger than a C, so the skin definitely can stretch a lot farther than we think. No stretch marks either. Good luck on the doctor search... I hope you can work something out. :)