36 Years Old Almost Four Years Under the Muscle Cohesive Gel 500cc Got to Go!!! - Huntersville, NC

My how time flies when you are not sick. If you haven't heard me say it before I will say it again...Explanting those bags of silicone was a no brained best decision for me. My health is 100 percent better. I don't feel like crap anymore and I can run and have energy with my children. I get up in the mornings and don't feel like I can't get through the day anymore, now once I'm up with the kids for school, my day starts. The little itty bitties are fluffing out well and soon I can go back to my padded push ups, but if I must be honest I don't feel the need for them. One thing I will say about after for me is that the extra sensitivy in the nipples is rough. The other night my hubby and I were being intimate and in the flash of a second it's like joy went to excruciating pain. It felt like tens of thousands of needles were being jabbed into my nipples to the point where I got nauseous. That's the first time that has happened but it wasn't a good feeling. The nipples have been the only thing that has been sensitive even just sitting inside of the bras. I have heard that is normal because of the nerves awakening after the surgery which I know can be the same after a BA to. On another note there is a young lady at my church who is getting ready to get a BA and I've been really talking to her about my experience. I can see the excitement for her as she embarks on this journey of new "lifted and perky breast mom makeover" and I remember the same excitement. I guess now I understand what people four years ago were telling me when they told me I was beautiful without them, when the man I was dating at the time said he liked me either way. I look at her thinking she is such a beautiful young lady both inside and out, she is definitely not flat like I was before mine but she just wants volume, she has an amazing husband and beautiful children, why would she ever waste time and money in her life with a surgery externally she really doesn't need. However, I remember the internal struggles I had before my BA and no word of advice or experience was really bad enough to make me think against getting the surgery. Knowing now what I didn't know before all this I encouraged her to rethink things, but also encouraged her that if she was going to go through with it to start saving money now in case something happens. I told her the worst feeling is to be sick, want them out and have to wait to get the surgery due to finances. I told her the stories of the women I've seen on here who were and are just like me tired of suffering from the unexplainable sickness that could be caused by their implants, the frustration of trying to get a good deal and a good doctor all while wondering how much it will cost through the sickness. I pleaded with her to set aside that fund to be able to book an Explant surgery just in case and she agreed especially since she is still trying to get the last bit of money to finish paying for this one and she sees how hard it is (she doesn't want to use her credit card which is smart). Thanks again to all of the ladies who have helped me in this journey and I'm glad to be able to help all of those that I can. I am pretty much cleared to work out and I can't wait! Zumba here I come!

Well well well ladies I just keep feeling better and better. I am feeling amazing and have so much energy and to me these girls are starting to fluff a little bit. I can tell a difference from flat last Saturday to a little fluff in my shirt this Saturday. My incision sites are starting to itch and if I wasn't such a germophobe I would give in into wanting to pick at the dermabond that is peeling off as it reminds of kindergarten and peelings glue off of your hands. Anyhoo. I can't work out still and until the incisions are healed a bit more I have to take it easy on lifting my arms which I can tell. I pulled the microwave door open yesterday and felt a pull in the stitching on the right side. Other than waiting for that to heal I feel wonderful. My energy is increasing as each day goes on, and one thing I don't think I ever mentioned in any of this was the tension in my shoulders as well as neck pain and all of that is gone to. This decision to take them out is better than the one I made to get them in. I feel like myself again. Something else I want to share to about bras. So I've been trying to find ones that will give me compression but be comfortable to and besides the bandini which was still not all the way comfortable I hadn't found any until surprisingly yesterday. I saw these sports bras hanging up in family dollar and I thought nah those would never work but at 8 bucks for two I was willing to try them and they had padding I'm them. They had cute pink ones with slots in the side with wide shoulder bands or they had darker ones with spaghetti straps so I got the ones with the spaghetti straps in a medium. When I tell you these are more comfortable than my expensive bras and still give me compression as well as padding to make the girls bigger I am excited. I'm going back to spend more or more sports bras until I can go back to wearing my padded push up regular bras. At this time I haven't taken pics with the bra on but I promise I'll post some later today or tomorrow. Again thank you to all who have shared your stories that have helped me in this process.

So I'm extremely excited because I am day 4 Post Op and I get to get my drains taken out today not to mention the girls are starting to fluff more. I feel like me again and when I say that I mean energy, no more fatigue, no feeling sick to my stomach and here is the kicker....I haven't started my health kick back yet. By health kick I mean just eating more greens drinking more water and giving my coffee up for some tea instead, not eating white fudged Oreos almost every night but back to maybe once a month. I stayed up last night watching Fuller House (don't judge me I love Uncle Jesse lol) and this morning after getting kids up for school I'm still awake and wish I could start my day with some Zumba but I know I can't work out right now. Just a week ago I would have the desire to do all of this but my body would be plagued with fatigue and Iike crap but couldn't explain that I wasn't physically like sick. For the last year and a half before getting the implants out at times I found myself depressed wanting to be the active mom I was with my kids only to be too tired or sick feeling to do anything or when my husband would finally get a day off and offer to go on a date together I would either not be able to get out of bed or it would be cut short because I didn't feel well. I don't know about anyone else well yeah I do because I've seen so many amazing stories but getting my implants out have changed my life in more ways than one. The awesome thing about it is I'm also at a point in my life where I'm okay with how God made me and I'm comfortable in my own skin so being confident even with having little breast is no longer an issue for me. Even though I never got the implants out of haste or for my old job (I danced as an adult entertainer for 4 years) when I finally got the implants it was because I had felt almost all of my life that I wasn't comfortable with being almost 6ft talk with A cups. I didn't get them to look good in a bathing suit or for anyone to even notice me it was more of a not feeling secure in who I was with little breasts. Now I thank God for these small breasts and all of the weird quirks that come along with who he created me to be. I am excited because I now have another part of this story called my life to add to to help women in their struggles. I've been through a lot in life and have overcome so much and I'm excited to be able to share with others that I was able to overcome this to. In talking with the teens I work with a couple of weeks ago I shared with them this story of implants which just so happened to fit in to what we were discussing about what they face in their schools of how their peers treat them. I explained to them to be happy with who they are regardless of what others say and that it is worth it in the long run. I explained to them the benefits of research such as all I did to get my implants but the downside to how sick I've been with them. They really let it sink in that there is more to life than appearance and I'm glad that sharing my story can help them from possibly being in this same situation. Disclaimer: I don't knock implants as I have friends who have them and are doing fine after 10 years but I do make people aware that as with anything there is a risk that your body may not like them and to be prepared for that. Gosh sorry I went on a tangent. I'm just so inspired by the ladies on here who have helped me in all of this that I feel sharing is a big part of me doing my part to help other women who are thinking about this. Will post more pics after these stinkin drains come out today. Here's to the itty bitties on leap day. ??????