POSTED UNDER Breast Implant Removal Reviews
32 Year Old Explanting 12 Yr Old 275 Cc Salines Under the Muscle - Dallas, TX
UPDATED FROM MJZL
11 months post
1 year post explant
MJZLAugust 7, 2017
$6,500
So... I'm so happy I had the implants removed. It doesn't bother me to be small chested anymore. I look thinner and it matches my petite frame so much better. I actually feel more delicate and feminine. However, I do think I wish I would have went a different route. After giving myself a year to heal and for the skin to retract and tighten, I'm not fully happy. I wish I would have had a lift. They have dropped quite a bit and there is too much excess skin. I wanted to badly to not need one and to forgo the scars. I saw so many beautiful results where everyone's tinies popped back into place and the skin was taunt. I should have know after nursing 2 babies for a total of 3 years in top of 12 years of implants was going to leave me with extra skin and droopiness. Dr melmed do the crescent lift and internal lift. My nipples are higher, but they have been stretched from the incision. Plus his incisions really are sloppy. One of my scars blends very well (left side) the other is very crooked and has a bubbled part on one side ( right side) it is also puckered more and pulls on the skin and makes my stretch marks more prominent. When I lay down is probably my biggest concern. They dent in and pleat where the puckering from the incisions are. There is just too much extra skin. My plan is to go see Dr. Hubbard in Dallas for a consult on 2 weeks. I actually consulted with him before my surgery a year ago and liked him a lot. Honestly I just wanted to get out of the scars from a full lift. I'm pretty upset with myself because I will pretty much have to pay the same amount for a lift that I did for the whole explant a year ago and I could have just used Hubbard and had it all done in one go. But I guess I would have always wondered how well it would have turned out without a lift. So my journey continues...
UPDATED FROM MJZL
2 months post
12 weeks
MJZLNovember 23, 2016
Feel so much better. Love the way I look in clothes. Getting more comfortable with how they look outside of clothes. Still not happy with how they look when I lay down :( skin wrinkles bad. Not sure if it's from the nursing or combo of the implants stretching the skin and nursing. Not happy with the shape of my nipples. The incisions were a little sloppy. However for me, I prefer them to the anghor lift scars. My left nipples also points outward but it did that a tad after nursing two babies, just does it more so now. Oh well
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November 25, 2016
I think you look great! I am also worried about what my end result will be. I have had implants for 26 years! I do not expect to look as good as you do. I have read so many reviews and seen how much improvement happens over the first year, I'm sure yours will just keep getting better.
I think it funny how so many of us want to look a certain way yet, our bodies left to its natural state have been able to do so many amazing things! I breast feed as well a single child then twins and I was left with much less perky boobs than before. Now all I want is soft boobs again!
Thank you for sharing it really helps with preparing and understanding this entire process. It's one that only people going through it truly understand.
(((Hugs)))
I think it funny how so many of us want to look a certain way yet, our bodies left to its natural state have been able to do so many amazing things! I breast feed as well a single child then twins and I was left with much less perky boobs than before. Now all I want is soft boobs again!
Thank you for sharing it really helps with preparing and understanding this entire process. It's one that only people going through it truly understand.
(((Hugs)))
November 27, 2016
Thank you! Yes the feel of soft boobs is so much better! Breastfeeding sure does a number on boobs but it is the absolute best thing for our babies and ummm what they were designed for. Lol. I wish you the best of luck on your journey!!
November 25, 2016
I think you are look great! I would have never noticed the nipple thing you pointed. They look like normal breast ! They retracted beautifully . I get the part about when you lay down. But, going back 12 years ago after breast-feeding both kids mine kind of did the same thing they flopped to the side and wrinkled a tad. But then I had fake boobs I thought were so strange that they were just not flopping to the side much and unnatural and not normal looking. So, I'll take normal non erect boobs anyday. I asked the nurse because it had been so long since I had normal boobs if this was normal when I lay down and she said welcome to having normal boobs. I forgot what it was like! You look beautiful, natural and normal! Embrace the new you , every month I just think why didn't I do this earlier and better yet, why did I butcher my body in the first place . Chin up sister , even when you are laying down! ;)
November 27, 2016
Thank you so much for the kind words. Yes I always remembered being completely flat when lying down before because real boobs go over to the side. I have like a pleating when laid down. I'm not sure if it's the nipple incisions or just loose skin from nursing and being stretched from implants. I'm just being patient and giving it time.
November 26, 2016
Is too soon babe! Sometimes it takes a year for the skin to bounce back, don't worry about it, you look great!
January 9, 2017
Fabulous results. you look amazing xx
UPDATED FROM MJZL
1 month post
Update healing process
MJZLOctober 27, 2016
I've had so many ups and downs with healing from implant removal. I don't mind being small at all. I love how most clothes fit me so much more. I have good days and bad about the healing of my nipples ( I had a crescent lift) that are not even and one points outward a little. I did notice that in my before explant pics that it had started to a little after nursing but it's much more so now. I'm hoping time will help with those little issues. I also have major issues with lying on my back. My breast are wrinkly when I lay down. My surgeon says to give it time that it takes time for skin to retract and tighten. We shall see. They are far from perfect but I'm happy with them upright. Especially having nursed for 3 years of my life. I'm hoping they get better and better because getting implants again is not happening!! I'm so happy to be rid of all the tiredness, joint aches and brain fog!!!
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October 28, 2016
Ty for sharing your experience. Today is one week post explant for me. I am 58 5'6" 124 lbs. I was a C cup before the implants and not sure what I will be once healed but like you said implants are not happening. You explained your journey so well and made me feel so much better about my own experience. I had a cc with severe swelling (painful) and went into surgery with a horrible rash on my face and neck which I had been dealing with for 2 years. Until this forum I did not know about the side effects from implants even though for the past 10 years I have consulted with many PS's who all said all is ok and leave them alone. Waiting until a cc with severe swelling was not the right answer. Thought I had fibromyalgia for years but it must have been effects from the implants, and it was divine intervention that I found this site. I may have replaced the implants and would not had the confidence to just remove them without the help from this site. I had saline from 92-98 and silicone from 98-2016. I felt just as you, enjoyed them for many years, but now wished I would have never had them. You look better without the implants and I am so happy that you made this decision early in life and before complications. It takes a year to fully heal and there will be changes for six months. Ty for sharing.
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