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I have been feeling really sad in regards to my...
I have been feeling really sad in regards to my surgery. I did research for years and thought I knew everything that could go wrong, but I still didn't know everything. I don't say this to be Debbie Downer, I say this because I wouldn't want anybody else to deal with what I am now dealing with. My breasts are 9 months out from surgery but I don't feel happy with my results, my breasts have bottomed out and my nipples are way too high and according to surgeons' it's not an easy fix.
So I say all this to say, ladies be very specific with your desires when it comes to your surgery, I so wish I had known then what I know now and not have left anything to chance, because now I'm here with results that I don't feel happy with and it feels awful.
So I say all this to say, ladies be very specific with your desires when it comes to your surgery, I so wish I had known then what I know now and not have left anything to chance, because now I'm here with results that I don't feel happy with and it feels awful.
Hi ladies, I don't want to make this long but I...
Hi ladies, I don't want to make this long but I want to be descriptive. Surgery itself was easy, the healing after not so much, and I read so many women's reviews who were up and back at work so quickly so I thought I would be the same way. Lifting, carrying, pulling ANYTHING was the hardest part, everything caused me to swell and for a long time I wouldn't even carry a purse. I still haven't gotten too many bras, they advise against wearing underwire for the 1st year so I've been in mostly bralettes from the GAP and Wal-Mart and I also bought some maternity bras from Target which are soft and nice.
Here have been the pros and cons:
Pros: I wake up and my back doesn't hurt, this has been one of THEE best things ever about having the surgery and for that alone it has been worth it. There was 854 grams removed from my left breast and 864 from my right, so it was a bit of weight.
Cons: I do NOT regret having the surgery at all but I DO regret not having more tissue removed and I also am not happy with how high my nipples were placed, ladies PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE discuss this with your doctor beforehand, I wish someone stressed the importance of that to me, now if I have on a tank top thats too low my nipples will peek out a little bit and it's very frustrating. I also don't like the fact that my surgeon is so far from me, that has been very frustrating.
For scar treatment I have been massaging them daily, but I also used Bio Corneum as soon as my incisions closed up everyday. Not sure if it helped or not and that's the thing with scar treatment, if it's a new scar there isn't any way to tell if it helped or not unless you did a study and didn't put treatment on one side. Right now I am massaging with Scarzone and cocoa butter lotion twice a day.
My right breast was absolutely the problem child, I had a slight infection that became red and inflamed and I was on a few doses of antibiotics, my scar is also different on my right side (more noticeable). I also had a terrible cyst that formed in my crease of my right breast that became so unbearably painful for 2 days and then it burst and about a half a cup of fluid was released. I didn't have drainage tubes and I think that righty needed to release the bad fluid anyway it could. I will show my pictures of when it burst. After it burst it formed a hole that leaked for about 3 weeks. I went to a breast specialist and she showed me how to fill the hole with this packing strip (that made my head swim, it was difficult to fill a hole in your breast with tweezers and cotton-like substance). The hole DID heal though thank God and I am OK.
One thing I wish I would've known going in, is there is also a serious psychological aspect (not for everybody, but for me for sure) that I wish doctors would talk to patients about, I still feel like my breasts are the same size they were before surgery, even though I can see and feel the visible difference, but I'm not happy with how large my breasts are. Now part of my anatomy is that I have wide breasts, so they will appear very large no matter what and I get that, but I do want more tissue removed.
If anyone has ANY questions please let me know, ask me ANYTHING:)
Here have been the pros and cons:
Pros: I wake up and my back doesn't hurt, this has been one of THEE best things ever about having the surgery and for that alone it has been worth it. There was 854 grams removed from my left breast and 864 from my right, so it was a bit of weight.
Cons: I do NOT regret having the surgery at all but I DO regret not having more tissue removed and I also am not happy with how high my nipples were placed, ladies PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE discuss this with your doctor beforehand, I wish someone stressed the importance of that to me, now if I have on a tank top thats too low my nipples will peek out a little bit and it's very frustrating. I also don't like the fact that my surgeon is so far from me, that has been very frustrating.
For scar treatment I have been massaging them daily, but I also used Bio Corneum as soon as my incisions closed up everyday. Not sure if it helped or not and that's the thing with scar treatment, if it's a new scar there isn't any way to tell if it helped or not unless you did a study and didn't put treatment on one side. Right now I am massaging with Scarzone and cocoa butter lotion twice a day.
My right breast was absolutely the problem child, I had a slight infection that became red and inflamed and I was on a few doses of antibiotics, my scar is also different on my right side (more noticeable). I also had a terrible cyst that formed in my crease of my right breast that became so unbearably painful for 2 days and then it burst and about a half a cup of fluid was released. I didn't have drainage tubes and I think that righty needed to release the bad fluid anyway it could. I will show my pictures of when it burst. After it burst it formed a hole that leaked for about 3 weeks. I went to a breast specialist and she showed me how to fill the hole with this packing strip (that made my head swim, it was difficult to fill a hole in your breast with tweezers and cotton-like substance). The hole DID heal though thank God and I am OK.
One thing I wish I would've known going in, is there is also a serious psychological aspect (not for everybody, but for me for sure) that I wish doctors would talk to patients about, I still feel like my breasts are the same size they were before surgery, even though I can see and feel the visible difference, but I'm not happy with how large my breasts are. Now part of my anatomy is that I have wide breasts, so they will appear very large no matter what and I get that, but I do want more tissue removed.
If anyone has ANY questions please let me know, ask me ANYTHING:)
DAMMIT! All my pics are upside down, sigh. I will...
DAMMIT! All my pics are upside down, sigh. I will fix it soon.