425 cc Sub Muscular Allergan High Profile, 5 Foot 2 Inches, 100 Lbs, 29 Year Old, No Kids. La Jolla, CA

100 lbs 5 foot 2 inches BWD 11.3 cm. Allergan Natrelle style 20 round silicone implants. Implant width is 12.0 cm with 5.2 cm projection. Went from a 32 A to a full D not VS D but real D. VS I can wear a 32 D now. I'm 6 weeks post op and have noticed big changes from my first surgery.

Breasts are now soft and squishy. They are starting to feel very natural. This definitely wasn't the case with my first surgery. The way my implants feel now is how they felt between 3-6 months post op. I'm also able to sleep on my stomach.

I massage implants 2-3 times per week with bio oil and coconut oil to prevent stretch marks and help with scaring. When massaging most of the time I squeeze the bottom and top of my breasts to move the implant in the pocket. For scar treatment I am using Mederma PM, bio oil ($9 small bottle), and spectrum unrefined coconut oil that I bought at whole foods for $9. The coconut oil has been the best edition to my skincare routine.

No numbness in the nipples or breasts any longer. I love the high profile implant I've woren under wire twice. It's nice because I don't need to wear a push-up bra to get cleavage and have been happy wearing wirefree bras I bought at Soma after my first surgery for work. I am so happy with the cleavage the hp gives. One of my biggest disappointments with my first surgery was that I had to wear a push-up super padded bra if I wanted cleavage and that is totally fixed.

I am so glad I had a revision. This size and profile is just perfect. I also am glad to have some side boob and that there isn't a huge gap between my breasts any longer. These are benefits to selecting an implant size slightly over your BWD.

I don't have any distortion or rippling on the sides. I can feel the implants under my breast but this happened with 250 cc and my PS said it is impossible to prevent or fix regardless of size.

They are beginning to soften. I have been massaging for 20 minutes at night with a mixture of bio oil and coconut oil I got a whole foods. I love the coconut oil. I'm also using it as a mask for my hair and on my eyebrows/ eyelashes. Scars seem to be responding well to my treatment regime. Had an odd experience last night during my massage I felt a lump/ knot under my scar. I massaged it and it was gone by my post op appointment. Very strange. Did anyone else have an experience like this with a lump under your scar?

Lots of pictures! Includes side boob for meme.

Wanted to do a bit of a fun post for a change and share some of my BA hacks and hopefully hear some others. So I have 2 hacks that came to mind this week.

1) Reuse your Scar Away Silicone Strips

So you get a pack of 3 sets in a box for $23. For my first BA I went through 3 of these boxes because I'd use the strips for a few weeks then throw them away. That got expensive after 3 months.

After a couple uses with these (especially if you use a self tanner) these get gunky and lose their stick. That's when this hack comes in. Rather than throwing the strips away and opening a new pair cover in antibacterial soap and rinse under warm water. Stick on the edge of your tub or sink to dry. I like to be using two sets at once so I can wash one and have a clean one ready. I usually wash these every 1-2 uses now. The silicone is as good as new once you wash your body product and skin cells off of it.

2) get blood out of post surgical bras using a bar of soap

A little background on this hack. This comes from my great great grandmother and is one of the most useful life hacks I have that I haven't seen all over the Internet. I'm third generation Sicilian on my moms side so I get some good advice on how to make the most of what you have from that side of the family. We waste nothing. Anyway my story for this hack was when I was recovering from my revision my husband found my bra from my first surgery and was horrified to see that it was covered in dried blood from almost a year ago. I know this sounds nastey but I just forgot to clean it and being raised with nothing you don't throw things away. So last weekend I did my bar of soap blood hack. I didn't think to get a picture before but I have it after a few rounds included on this post.

So what you do is wet the bra and wet a bar of soap. Then you rub the bar of soap over the stain. For some stains like period ones in underwear you just rinse and repeat a few times. For this stain it required sitting over night then rinsing in the shower and the another overnight session. So this was a lot of blood caked on for a year and the bars of body soap dissolved the blood stain without damaging the fabric.

Anyway I did this with both post surgical bras from my doctor and they are good as new. These were cheap bras but I know a lot of ladies on here whose surgeons spring for the good ones. So save them. You never know if you might want them later on or if you could gift them to a friend.

Let me know your BA hacks.