POSTED UNDER Breast Implants Reviews
27 Years Old, 5'4, 125 Lbs, 3 Breastfed Kids, 32/34 AA with Protruding Ribs - Michigan
UPDATED FROM AJ87
1 year post
1 year review!
$6,478
Happy 1 year to my boobies! I had my one year check up yesterday, and my Dr. Said everything looks good!! She doesn't need to see me back, unless I have any problems down the road. On my last review I had a slight capsular contracture which I was perscribed singular for 3 months. I went back in January (3 months later) and the capsular contracture was gone! I was given micropore tape to put on my scar from my pyogenic granuloma... Which has helped tremendously!!! I went on vacation in February with my husband, some friends and family... This was truly the best trip. In the past I have always been extremely self conscious about my small boobs, which really would get in the way of me being able to relax and have fun on vacation. This was the first time in my life I was able to wear whatever I wanted and not feel self conscious, or worry at all! My boobs haven't really changed much over the last year, but I'm okay with my perky girls :) I currently wear 34DD, 32DDD or 30F (which is my correct size). My boobs seem completely normal and 100% a part of me! I don't regret my size or choice to get them done one bit!!
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P
September 19, 2015
Sorry u had to go through all that horrible xperience. I think that the doctor u had wasn't so good. Tell u y. I just had mine done on 11 th of this month. I initially wanted a 500cc. Doctor who did mine suggested to go 475cc, for further complications. I took his advise since he's d pro. I was a 34b. Alittle bigger than u. What I think ur doctor did was give u a huge size, and ur body wasn't able to cope with the size . And somehow reacted. Although I'm not 100 % happy with my doctor , since he isn't very attentive and doesn't answer my questions. I'm happy he gave me all the pros on getting big boobs a on my small 5'4 , 120 pd. body . Best wishes to you and hopefully u can reply me back
A
September 20, 2015
Honestly I really like my DR. The pyogenic granuloma had nothing to do with the implants, they can happen to anyone at any time. They just arnt super common, especially on the breast. Basically if you have a cut/ bug bite or in my case I had a zit on my chest that I had probably picked at... When I was massaging my breast in that spot my body thought it was a trauma so it's defense against it is to send as many blood vessels to the "sight" to help it heal. But since their was an opening the blood vessels clotted together and grew out. The capsular Contracture also can happen to anyone, but from not moving or massaging the breast at all for the last 2-3 months it gave my body a lot of time to build up the scar tissue around the implant. Also I have read that CC are more prone to happen if there is a hematoma (which is basically what I had) or due to your immune system.. Which mine was working over time to try and heal my pyogenic granuloma. 500cc is a big implant, but I don't think they look out of proportion to my body. I basically started with nothing, and my Dr knew going into the surgery what I wanted my outcome to be. I don't think she realized until she was trying out sizers in me that she would have to go bigger to get me the desired result. Also for the type of implant that I have the 475cc which I was planning on getting was larger projection then the 500. The 500cc was the same projection as the 450cc just wider. So honestly I think she made the right choice.
F
September 7, 2017
Oh my goodness, that looked so painful! Glad you were able to remove it!!!!
UPDATED FROM AJ87
4 months post
Here's to hoping ...
Hey everyone, a lot has happened since my last post! I was super self conscious about it all so I had decided not to post, but now that it's hopefully all behind me, here it goes...
At my one month check up my Dr. had me start really massaging and pushing down my left breast which was a little higher then the right. That seemed to be working great ( besides breaking out like crazy from all the lotion and oil I was using to help massage ). After a week or two I developed what I thought at the time was a red mole or a cherry angioma on the top of my left breast. I googled them like crazy and tried EVERY at home remedy to get it to go away. Nothing seemed to help, but only make it worse. It kept growing over the next couple weeks, and every time I messed with it, it would bleed a lot. After calling every dermatologist office in the area and not being able to get in for a first time visit for 4-6 weeks I found a Med spa that had Cherry Angioma removal! Yahtzee, I got an appointment for the next Friday! I had told my Mom about the upcoming appointment, and she had said "let me know how it goes, because I have a cherry angioma on my chest I want to get removed" .. She showed me, and it was then that I realized that is not what I had :( .. I searched the Internet and googled everything imaginable to try to figure out what I had. . Finally after hours and hours / days of research I came up with a pyogenic granuloma. I went to my appointment that next Friday hoping that their laser treatment for cherry angiomas would help my pyogenic granuloma! Negative... The nurse took a one second look at it, and said she couldn't do anything for me. I left in tears.. I just wanted it gone. Being on the top of my left breast I couldn't wear tank tops, bathing suits, anything low cut At all.. PS there is no home remedy to get rid of a pyogenic granuloma, they supposedly go away on their own. The only problem with that waiting game is that it's a cluster of blood vessels outside of the skin, so anytime you even slightly bump it, it bleeds like crazy.. Which happened daily! I would keep it covered and it would give off a clear ish liquid which would soak through a bandaid / gauze and on to my shirt, or I would leave it uncovered and it would bleed through on to my shirt. This was an everyday, all day struggle! One night I was washing my face and chest before bed (11:45pm) and somehow as I was carefully patting it dry the whole top came off it! I had a hole the size of the tip of my pinky finger gushing blood. Luckily my friend lives across the street and drove me to the hospital. My husband was at home sleeping with the kids! My primary Dr had told me on the phone that if it ever started to bleed uncontrollably I would have to go in and have it cauterized. It took 6 hours in the emergency room to get it to stop bleeding ( mostly because the dr's had no idea what a pyogenic granuloma was, so they wanted to try everything besides cauterizing it to get it to stop. Which noting helped, until they cauterized it and used silver nitrate after 5+ hours. But I had a great friend who say their with me the whole night!! The ER staff had said I would have to have a surgeon remove it, they couldn't do anything for me there. So the next day I called and made an appointment with my plastic surgeon. The receptionist on the phone had said that she thought I would be able to have it removed in the office, I couldn't wait!! I got to the appointment and my PS said she wasn't going to remove it. I cried, a lot. Lol. She couldn't remove it in the office because it would bleed to much, and it would need to be in a sterile room, with anesthesia. She had said they normally go away on their own after a few weeks ( at this point it had been almost 2 months ) And the only thing it was doing was getting bigger! Looking back I'm glad she wouldn't remove it, because since it's technically "cosmetic" insurance wouldn't have covered anything. I went home depleted :( I keep it covered for 2 more weeks per my DR. The only thing that was happening was it kept getting bigger. All I could ever do was research, and read anything on pyogenic granulomas since it first popped up. It's all I could think about. I had read on some blog that ONE person had luck with tying it off with a piece of their hair. As painful as it sounded I decided to try it. Saturday night before bed I wrapped a piece of my hair around it over and over, and went to bed. When I woke up Sunday morning about half of it was black! By Monday morning the whole thing was black, and on Tuesday night it came off, with a little help from myself. There it was 2 months of greaf, lifted off of me. I instantly felt better. It was an indescribable feeling. At that point it was the size of a penny. The crazy part is there was no blood with any part of it coming off. It has been 2 weeks since then, and it's still healing. I had my recheck today from my last appointment with my PS and also my 3-4 month implant check. She was very happy with the progress of the pyogenic granuloma! She even admitted to me today that in all her years she had never seen that before, (people usually get them on their fingers or toes, sometimes face... But never their chest ) and not only that but it was the worst one she had ever seen! So glad that's over! Since I had developed the pyogenic granuloma I wasn't able to massage my left breast basically at all, which caused a capsular contracture. She prescribed me singular to take once a day for 3 months, along with aggressively massaging the breast. Here's to hoping that this works!!! As of right now it doesn't look bad, but I don't want it to get worse!! Fingers crossed ! Has anyone gone through a capsular contracture? Any thing work / didn't work for you? Singular.. Pros and cons? I've read mixed things.
At my one month check up my Dr. had me start really massaging and pushing down my left breast which was a little higher then the right. That seemed to be working great ( besides breaking out like crazy from all the lotion and oil I was using to help massage ). After a week or two I developed what I thought at the time was a red mole or a cherry angioma on the top of my left breast. I googled them like crazy and tried EVERY at home remedy to get it to go away. Nothing seemed to help, but only make it worse. It kept growing over the next couple weeks, and every time I messed with it, it would bleed a lot. After calling every dermatologist office in the area and not being able to get in for a first time visit for 4-6 weeks I found a Med spa that had Cherry Angioma removal! Yahtzee, I got an appointment for the next Friday! I had told my Mom about the upcoming appointment, and she had said "let me know how it goes, because I have a cherry angioma on my chest I want to get removed" .. She showed me, and it was then that I realized that is not what I had :( .. I searched the Internet and googled everything imaginable to try to figure out what I had. . Finally after hours and hours / days of research I came up with a pyogenic granuloma. I went to my appointment that next Friday hoping that their laser treatment for cherry angiomas would help my pyogenic granuloma! Negative... The nurse took a one second look at it, and said she couldn't do anything for me. I left in tears.. I just wanted it gone. Being on the top of my left breast I couldn't wear tank tops, bathing suits, anything low cut At all.. PS there is no home remedy to get rid of a pyogenic granuloma, they supposedly go away on their own. The only problem with that waiting game is that it's a cluster of blood vessels outside of the skin, so anytime you even slightly bump it, it bleeds like crazy.. Which happened daily! I would keep it covered and it would give off a clear ish liquid which would soak through a bandaid / gauze and on to my shirt, or I would leave it uncovered and it would bleed through on to my shirt. This was an everyday, all day struggle! One night I was washing my face and chest before bed (11:45pm) and somehow as I was carefully patting it dry the whole top came off it! I had a hole the size of the tip of my pinky finger gushing blood. Luckily my friend lives across the street and drove me to the hospital. My husband was at home sleeping with the kids! My primary Dr had told me on the phone that if it ever started to bleed uncontrollably I would have to go in and have it cauterized. It took 6 hours in the emergency room to get it to stop bleeding ( mostly because the dr's had no idea what a pyogenic granuloma was, so they wanted to try everything besides cauterizing it to get it to stop. Which noting helped, until they cauterized it and used silver nitrate after 5+ hours. But I had a great friend who say their with me the whole night!! The ER staff had said I would have to have a surgeon remove it, they couldn't do anything for me there. So the next day I called and made an appointment with my plastic surgeon. The receptionist on the phone had said that she thought I would be able to have it removed in the office, I couldn't wait!! I got to the appointment and my PS said she wasn't going to remove it. I cried, a lot. Lol. She couldn't remove it in the office because it would bleed to much, and it would need to be in a sterile room, with anesthesia. She had said they normally go away on their own after a few weeks ( at this point it had been almost 2 months ) And the only thing it was doing was getting bigger! Looking back I'm glad she wouldn't remove it, because since it's technically "cosmetic" insurance wouldn't have covered anything. I went home depleted :( I keep it covered for 2 more weeks per my DR. The only thing that was happening was it kept getting bigger. All I could ever do was research, and read anything on pyogenic granulomas since it first popped up. It's all I could think about. I had read on some blog that ONE person had luck with tying it off with a piece of their hair. As painful as it sounded I decided to try it. Saturday night before bed I wrapped a piece of my hair around it over and over, and went to bed. When I woke up Sunday morning about half of it was black! By Monday morning the whole thing was black, and on Tuesday night it came off, with a little help from myself. There it was 2 months of greaf, lifted off of me. I instantly felt better. It was an indescribable feeling. At that point it was the size of a penny. The crazy part is there was no blood with any part of it coming off. It has been 2 weeks since then, and it's still healing. I had my recheck today from my last appointment with my PS and also my 3-4 month implant check. She was very happy with the progress of the pyogenic granuloma! She even admitted to me today that in all her years she had never seen that before, (people usually get them on their fingers or toes, sometimes face... But never their chest ) and not only that but it was the worst one she had ever seen! So glad that's over! Since I had developed the pyogenic granuloma I wasn't able to massage my left breast basically at all, which caused a capsular contracture. She prescribed me singular to take once a day for 3 months, along with aggressively massaging the breast. Here's to hoping that this works!!! As of right now it doesn't look bad, but I don't want it to get worse!! Fingers crossed ! Has anyone gone through a capsular contracture? Any thing work / didn't work for you? Singular.. Pros and cons? I've read mixed things.
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A
September 19, 2015
My goodness that granuloma thing was crazy! So great that you got rid of it! I can imagine it must have been extremely frustrating to deal with.
I just wanted to tell you to check out lmarie48's review, she had a slight contracture in one breast and she said its gone now! I believe her surgeon put her on a med called Accolate? Is that similar to Singular? I hope it improves for you!
Your boobs look great, perfect size and nice shape :)
I just wanted to tell you to check out lmarie48's review, she had a slight contracture in one breast and she said its gone now! I believe her surgeon put her on a med called Accolate? Is that similar to Singular? I hope it improves for you!
Your boobs look great, perfect size and nice shape :)
A
September 19, 2015
Thank you! I think the medications are pretty much the same from what I've read. And thanks for connecting me with someone who has gone through a CC before! I just hope it works :)
A
September 19, 2015
No problem :). If I remember correctly, there was another girl here who's story I read a while back, she had slight CC on one side and I think she was prescribed singular as well.. I believe her name was DreamBigger ?
It always helps to hear the first hand experience of someone who has been through what you are going through!
It always helps to hear the first hand experience of someone who has been through what you are going through!
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