Capsular Contracture Journey

So everything has been going pretty good so far. My breast is soft and there is no pain. The surgery was a success in my eyes.
But as my doctor warned me, there was a chance there would be little tissue and support in my breast, and he was definitely right. My breast is significantly lower than my right side. I’m so glad I’m not hurting anymore, but now instead of it being too high and tight, it’s quite the opposite lol. My nipples are in the same spot, but you’ll notice in the pics, that it’s just the implant that is riding a little low.
I made an appointment for a consultation for a revision surgery to see if it was even possible to fix this. I took a BUNCH of pictures. Due to the angle, some look more extreme than others.
At this point I’ve come to terms with the fact that I won’t ever look how I did before the Capsular Contracture, and it still sucks. But i can’t be upset forever because it’s not going to change what happened- andI can take steps to feel confident again. Even if it means paying for yet another surgery to look more “normal” in a shirt instead of lopsided.
You can’t tell when I’m wearing a bra, or some clothes with built in bras, but that’s not what I want to wear 24/7. When I look in the mirror naked (I make sure to do it religiously now) I want to feel okay, and confident wearing a bathing suit in public.

I had the capsulectomy in the middle of September, and everything went smooth. I had to wear a drain for about a week. I went to the post op appointment and the nurse and doctor let me know it was a little worse than they thought, and they had to remove a lot of scar tissue. I asked if I could see pictures lol they were pretty gnarly. The removed tissue was pretty thick, like an orange peel...

So in June I had made an appointment to see my amazing surgeon so he could tell me for sure if what I was thinking was true. (that it was Capsular Contracture) He said it definitely was. He let me know that I have a few options- I could just kind of live with it, I could try a concoction of medicines to soften the capsule, or I could have surgery. He was so thoughtful and really took my concerns into consideration. I really couldn’t ask for a better experience and staff. He explained to me what Capsular Contracture was, and what the risks were with each of the options presented.
If I left it alone, and just kind of dealt with it, there was a chance of it getting worse. As in more contracted looking, and more painful.
(I couldn’t even flex my left peck, and it was so uncomfortable and tight, that wasn’t an option for me. It felt as if I was flexing on that side 24/7)
Taking the medication concoction didn’t necessarily mean that it would work and go back to the way it was, but it was a happy medium because it may soften everything, and might be happy with the results, in which case I wouldn’t have to do surgery if I didn’t want to.
Surgery (Capsulectomy) is pricey, and may not lead to pretty results, because they have to go in and remove or cut the capsule. But can’t guarantee what the outcome will be because they don’t know how bad it is, until they get in there and take a look. Which means taking time off work, and possibly having to wear a drain for a little while.
So my doctor let me know the pros and cons of each, he then told me what his thoughts were (which I truly appreciated because I didn’t know what direction to go)
His advice was to try the concoction of 3 medicines for 2 months, because if I wasn’t happy with how I look now, I wasn’t going to be happy if/when it gets worse just leaving it alone, and not doing anything about it. So if I were to give the medicines a shot, and it didn’t work or I wasn’t happy with the outcome, then we would look into the surgery route.
And that’s what I did. I went and got the 3 medicines which were vitamin E capsules, singulair, and doxycycline.
I tried those for about 3 weeks before I started experiencing extremely sensitive skin (I would be in the sun for 5 minutes and would be burnt as if I was in the sun for a couple hours) my hands were BRIGHT red. (Ended up being because of the generic singulair. So on top of those, I was also taking Benadryl for the remaining time.
It didn’t really work. I think it stopped the capsular contracture from getting worse, but it didn’t make it better at all. And I took that stuff religiously. And even massaged it every night with vitamin E oil too.
So on my next appointment I let the doctor know that I would like to go ahead with the surgery, if he thinks it would be possible.
He let me know that it most likely wouldn’t look exactly how it did before, because they are removing scar tissue, and he wasn’t sure how much supportive tissue I will have left. At that point I didn’t care. I just wanted the surgery and be done with this awful contracture. So I scheduled it for September 2018.