Life Changing Breast Lift -Milwaukee, WI

I have wanted this ever since I hit puberty and grew strange pointy breasts. I gained weight, birthed and breastfed two children, gained some more weight, and now with the hope of a beautiful new set of breasts, I've shed it all. I'm so ready for this. What I have now is something akin to two socks nailed to a wall. They are pendulous, inconvenient, ugly, empty sacks of skin. I consulted twice with Dr. Rodger Mixter and felt firm in my choices. I had done tons of research, here and elsewhere on the internet. I knew what I wanted - until he told me he thought I would need my nipples to be completely removed and then placed back on as a skin graft due to the distance of my nipples from my chest wall. At first, I agreed that this was fine. I don't need to feed any more children, I don't care much about sensation. Leave it to me to research EVERYTHING but this. The results seem cadaveric in appearance, with the nipples looking flat and dead. Sometimes the graft doesn't take. They no longer project from the body. The scars are... more than I was willing to deal with even with anchor scars I would already have. This is not a result I could be happy with. I delved back into research. I read that most surgeons only consider this maneuver in very extreme cases and very large reductions. The guidelines I have found are: if the nipple complex is 35-40 cm from the collar bone, or 20 cm from the mammary fold. I fall well within these measurements- about 23 for the collar to nipple measurement and 13 for the fold to nipple. I really REALLY want to make this work using the pedicle method, which will preserve the blood supply to the nipple. I can't fathom doing this the way I had previously agreed upon. I want this so badly though. Further details- I intend to go with mod profile silicone implants and we are just going for a general look instead of a cup size or number of CC's. I will be losing quite a bit of volume due to skin so using sizers would not be accurate for me. If you read this whole thing, you get a cookie!

Today I'm trying to touch base with my PS and a few others to discuss the need for a Free Nipple graft (do NOT want to do) and for second opinions. I reached my second choice PS and they charge $100 for a consult! Holy cow! Is this a normal practice? On the one hand, that's pretty pricey, on the other hand, his before and after are gorgeous and the $100 is applied to the procedure. I think I will discuss with my current doc, and then based on his answers and confidence, I might be willing to bite the bullet and go with a doc that thinks his services are so great, he's going to charge just to speak with me. Any thoughts?

Had my second consultation with a new PS today. There are a lot of pros to this guy, but also some cons that I need to reconcile with. First up, he wants me to keep my nipples intact *big sigh of relief*. The flip side is that he wants to do this in two separate phases- lift, then three months later, add an implant. Due to the sheer amount of skin he's going to remove and the fact of my significant weight loss. I am pleased that he seems to be confident but cautious at the same time. Another downside of this is that it's going to cost me a couple grand more due there being more than one procedure. And want to hear something crazy? I could have my lift as soon as next Thursday. That's less than a week from now people! I want to get the ball rolling, especially now that this is going to be a two parter. I feel so much better now that I will get the results I need, just need to wrap my brain around all these other new details. Now I just need to call the doc that wanted to back off my nipples for no reason and cancel my other surgery that was scheduled for the 22nd of March.