Removal of 15 Year Old Saline Implants Under Local w/ Oral Sedation

Hello ladies! I can't believe it's been 9 months already! It was this time last year that I started to seriously contemplate making explant a reality. My PS had said my breasts would return to about 80% of what they looked like before implants, and I have to say I think he was right. I can't help but wonder how my breasts would have looked naturally on their own, over time, and if this sag I see is "from age" or if it was the implant stretching or what. I feel like I've robbed myself of knowing how my natural body would have looked as it aged. Regardless.....I am happy....very, very happy they are gone. I still, from time to time, feel the slightest twing of pain, pain like I'd had with implants. Though I have to say as the months have gone by, it's gotten less and is very infrequent now. I can still feel the capsules in there. I don't feel they've gotten smaller at all, and I think when the PS's say it absorbs into your body, that is BS. It might adhere to your body, but absorb & disappear? Nope, not for me. Nipple sensitivity has increased & is slightly more than with implants. My breasts just feel and look so different to me from the time I explanted til now, and even now still continue to change. I am warm all the time - no more cold bags slapping against my chest, no matter what season it was! I'm still shocked that I had so much breast tissue hiding under those implants & am rocking a C cup naturally. One thing that has me super joyful is that my weight has gone up since I've removed them. Oh, what happy tears of joy I cried when I stepped on that scale & saw three digits! I haven't seen that since....well, since just after I had those damned things put inside of me. I realize I'm in the minority & most women tend to gain weight with implants, but for me I lost it. Right after they were in me. And never could gain weight, no matter what or how much I ate. So needless to say I am over the moon now each time I step on that scale & see three digits (and it continues to go up)! So for any women out there who may have the problem I had - there is hope that you can be at a healthy weight again. Just oh so very, very happy and free....free from ever worrying if my implants were overly noticeable under my clothes & free from thinking about my breasts every second and hiding them. Happy Holidays ladies & best wishes for a New Year and for your own journey's! Do it. Do it, do it, do it. And have patience. Lots of it. :)

So the time leading up to the explant seemed to take foreverrrrr. Meanwhile it took another member who messaged me, reminding me it was 3 months & asked for an update. OK, so time after explant really does fly!!

I'm still doing great. I still LOVE being natural! Since it has been quite hot lately, I especially love that my entire body is warm! No more coldness in my breats & chest area, no matter how warm it is outside. My skin has shed & flaked off on my breasts again. I still haven't read about any other women talking about this but I'm definitely thinking it's from the skin retracting! I can still feel the hardened capsules inside of me; especially when I lean over and grip my breats from the sides. I don't know when they're supposed to "absorb into the body" and become soft & not noticeable but I can still feel mine. I have regained more sensation in my nipples, especially the right one & hello...I haven't felt those feelings in a while!!! lol I know some sensation will be lost forever but I was thrilled to find more came back.

I have gained weight. And for me, this is a biggie. I was a decent weight when they were put in, but then it dropped and I never could gain it back. And boy did I struggle to get it back but to no avail. So far I've gained a bunch but am still 2lbs shy of the number I'd like to be again. So being as how I am finally gaining weight again, and keeping it on, I know my metabolism must have gotten all screwed up from them. I know a lot of women gain weight with them, but for me I lost it. And it is ever joyous to be putting it back on! And even more so when people notice "hey, you look like you've gained some weight!" and I start beaming that they've noticed. Although I can tell you, those who know I had the explant say while they can tell I've gained weight, they also feel I look as if I look skinnier, especially in the chest area. You don't realize how overall larger they do make you look.

That leads me to clothing....putting on my summer shirts & all those size medium ones I had to accommodate the implants, no longer fit. Just too big & look ridiculous. Either that or the neck area is REALLY stretched out & looks absurd on me. I never realized my shirts were actually stretched out with the implants in. So needless to say, I have done some shopping for summer tops in size small that fit properly! And here I'd always thought "I didn't go too big"....well, my clothing says otherwise!

I am wearing things that are now much more suitable for me, now that I am so proportionate. I can not tell you ladies how incredibly sexy I feel for the first time ever! Even if I'm just in a plain t-shirt where it makes me look like I have no chest. I have this air of confidence about me, feel so sexy & so sure of myself! I just feel whole, and feel free and feel wonderful....me....all natural, all me. I didn't ever think I could feel this sexy with smaller breasts, but I do! My body, mind and soul are so much happier with them out.

Time flies! I am still doing good. I get the occasional twinge of pain now & then and at times they can still be a little sore and tender for no apparent reason (but I know I'm still healing so that's why). About two weeks ago, I noticed the skin on my breasts was shedding & just flaking off all over me. It only lasted a few days so I guess that was part of the skin retraction process. I haven't read anyone else mentioning their skin shed though. I'm so glad I took pictures along the way cause I can see my breasts are still changing. With them so wide apart, I have natural side boob anyway but can tell I have even more from one month post thanks to the photo's I took. So they are still changing & healing for me! Also, the dramatic upper pole on my right breast has gotten so much better & smoothed out nicer than it was. Now the left looks dramatic on me!

My bras showed up and I am in love. I have just never had any fit so well or make me feel so good in them! Not before implants & certainly not with them! However, I am still wearing a supportive non-wired bra daily and will only wear the ones with wires when I feel like I want a boost under my shirts. I know my incisions are still healing so I want to go easy on them. I'm going to post a pic of my CK push up bra. Ladies, this is how a bra should fit you! Little to no gap in the shoulder strap; nice smooth & flush breasts in the cups; no extra skin or breast popping out the fronts or sides of the cups and the wire part of the cup flush against your skin. If your bra doesn't fit you this good & perfect like this then you are wearing the wrong bra size! Your body has just been thru quite an ordeal, so go get professionally measured in due time (and not at VS!) and get yourself fitted in the proper sized bra for you. Don't guess at your size, you will only frustrate yourself trying on bras that will never fit right....trust me! lol I was so off base with my guessing, it wasn't even funny.

Wishing all you lovely ladies lots of courage & faith and wonderful healing as you go on your own journey!