Explant pictures 3 months post op

I am 3 months post op and I never went back to Dr. Chong for a follow up, mainly because I was in too much pain, not from my breasts, but from liposuction. Harmful procedure, my advice is to stay away from this procedure, refer to my liposuction review.

I can finally say my chest muscles feel 10x better than before, but not 100% to what they were before surgery. My muscle still flutters in the cold, but its not as severe as before. I can finally raise my arms and fall asleep on my stomach but their is still soreness. I tried doing a push up, but I can feel the muscle shifting, its uncomfortable. When I flex their is distortion on my breasts. The scar tissue band that I had under my right breast has softened and no longer is visible. I used suctioning cups. When I bend over my left nipple looks like it adhered to the underlying tissue (caved in). I can drive now. The areola remains dark and puffy. My right areola looks less caved than the left. The left areola seems to still pull in from the incision. I massage from time to time with bio oil. Also, at first I thought I had my sensation back but now after months, I actually don't have any sensation. I touch my nipple and it is very numb. I don't think I have much hope that things will get better but I will keep updating.

I believe the shape of my breasts are almost to what they were before, just a bit smaller but the size of the areola and color is very different. They are dark and puffy, even in the cold. It looks as if they are swollen, the incision site is still sensitive. My advice if you are looking to explant, is if you want to avoid your nipples appearing different or caving in choose the inframammary fold incision rather than the peri-areolar, but also know that you will instead have a visible scar on your breasts if you don't have much breast tissue.

I have attached many photos, as you can see I had a terrible infection but as time went by it cleared. It is now pinkish in color. My left breast was oddly shaped right after explant but got better with time. I don't think they look similar but everyone has asymmetry. Even though I am not happy about my nipples, I can truly say I feel 1000x better without those implants. The best part is that I can lay on my stomach with my tiny breasts. :)

http://www.bodymeasurements.org/real-vs-fake-breasts/

To those of you who have had implants for a very long time I think most of you talk about having a concave part but its how our breasts are naturally. Since I didnt have implants for too long I didnt worry about them to fill up at the top that much because we all have that slope anyway they only look full with bras. Just thought I would share this with you.

As I previously posted that my left breast looked beat up, well it has changed quite a lot, the skin has retracted and the skin doesnt feel so lose at the top. My right breast however shrunk in size I knew it would bcoz of the swelling but not so much than the other breast, it is way smaller than my left breast. As i was searching for answers it seemed that CC can distort your real breast tissue. I asked my surgeon if because we removed part of the capsule in that right breast it looks smaller, she said no however because the scar tissue hardens it can scrape the breast tissue losing some. Since I have seen so many women go through so many changes with their breast even at 6 mths, I am hoping I will be one of them and hopefully it wont be the case that I lost breast tissue. I have no idea how I can disguise it when going out any ideas? I have tried the push up bras and padding more on the right but the cleavage still looks different, still more volume on the left.

My areola incision is still pulling in, and underneath it, it feels like a rock, its so hard because of the scar tissue, any ideas how I can detach the scar tissue from it? I have tried cupping and massaging with oil, I dont see much improvement, I dont know if with time ill see a huge improvement, I have to remain patient. I think this is the part that upsets me the most, so after reviewing my breast augmentation pictures, it looks like my original surgeon cut into my areola more than he should have not around it how it should be, so practically since my incision was still opening up and was fresh my explant surgeon had to go under the same incision, since implants stretch your areola area when the implants were out it made it smaller and part of my areola was lost. It wouldnt be too obvious if the damn scar tissue decided to let go though, because thats what makes it look "eaten" for lack of better words. My bf still doesnt get bothered, he made me really happy when he said if nothing works out it will be his lil secret and that he will pay attention to them regardless, he loves the natural me, of course without that lipo job I received, Im still incredibly upset about that and the healing process has not been fun for that, so just know that Im dealing with other issues not just the explant. I have tried my best to only get my feelings out as far as the explant and not my other surgery so you can get a better understanding of what life after explant is like. I dont want you to get mistaken if I'm feeling depressed. I still love the decision I made, but oh so hate instagram and clothing websites, wish they used models without implants. Since I had implants, its crazy how I can detect them now. For example, after going through instagram pictures I say "oh yeah their fake, oh that one too, fake, fake, fake, and yup once i scroll down to the comments their it is girls asking for how many ccs did they get and what type of implant and whos their surgeon because they want it. I was so naive back then to think "wow her boobs are so nice and round wish i was born like that", real breasts have a slope, they are not hard and round at the top, they bounce, they are soft, now if you use padding you can definitely make them look rounder and bigger but they should still jiggle lol. Reading more and more reviews makes me believe that we were idolizing something that isnt real, we compared ourselves to fake breasts without knowing it, well some of us at least. I never really payed so much attention to my breast until now. Which brings me to examine myself, ladies now that these things are out, we can be active and always be aware of any changes in our breasts.

As to the muscle distortion, its getting better. I was able to carry my dog around but not so much better to exercise yet. I tried doing 1 push up and OH NO what a bad idea! It felt horrible, I dont know when I can get over the uncomfortable feeling, do any of you do crossfit? Im eager to know if actually putting your chest muscles to work will decrease the discomfort. Its very weird, but when I yawn I can also feel it, my surgeon wasnt kidding when she told me the chest muscle is attached from the neck down.

I wish I could get in contact with her, she has an incredible story on why she decided to take her implants out. She does HIIT workouts and I cant believe how active she is after her explant.
http://www.dailyhiit.com/hiit-blog/hiit-life/my-journey-to-stop-being-in-pain/

Also, I totally forgot about this part, breast sensation and color, after getting BA I lost sensation to my breasts, after explant i can feel my own touch to my breast again, the nipple area was overly sensitive after BA and now it is normal. Now about the color of my areola. When I first saw them they were darker, the way they get dark after pregnancy. I completely have forgotten to ask directly why this happened even though I have done my research and read the informed consent. So it seems it has been through a lot of trauma and scar tissue can make it look darker since contraction over a smaller area is why the color "appears" darker. Any of you have this? I do see it has lightened up a bit but still not the pinkish brown color I use to have. Now, if they dont go back to its original color are any ladies here with dark areolas that can make me feel good. I feel weird having dark areolas.

I straightened my hair the other day and it seemed that my chest got sore because of it, Im hoping with time itll get better. Well, I think thats all I have to report for now, Ill be posting pictures next week so you get what Im talking about.