Getting them out after 8 years! 30 yrs old

I've had my implants for 7 years and after the initial excitement was over, I realized they were really uncomfortable and I'm really uncomfortable with them. I feel more self-conscious now than before and I especially hate when my husband touches them. They're just useless, uncomfortable and in the way.

I have a consult tomorrow, but I was told it was $75. Usually, consults are free, I thought. Anyway, I just wanted to know what I can expect to pay. I see everything from $500 to $8000 on here and I don't want to get ripped off. I also don't want to pay as much as I had to to put them in. That doesn't make sense to me considering there is no implant to pay for. Thanks for your help.

My first consultation was $75. I'm saying first, because I'm definitely going to travel 3 hours to have a consult with my original plastic surgeon. My original surgery was $4000, so there is no way I'm paying more for removal. I might check out a few others just to see.

At my consult, the doctor checked my implants out and concluded that there really isn't anything wrong with them. He did say they are a bit too big for my frame, which I have always thought. I have submuscular 350cc silicone implants. I remember my doctor saying that I would be comfortable with 300 to 350 and I wanted the smallest. He and his nurses and even my online "support" said that most women regret not going bigger. I still feel like I would be happiest with the smallest implant imaginable, but that the risks and future surgeries are too costly for my lifestyle. I want to travel as much as possible. I don't want to spend my life on an operating table.

I feel kind of embarrassed. I burst into tears in front of the doctor and the nurse. He said he felt really bad for making me cry. When I left, I couldn't stop crying and drove home in tears. My implants are fine. They look fine. They mostly feel okay, but awful near my period. I'm just so upset with my past self, the me who hated me. I was 22 and just hated my boobs so much. I took a before pic on the morning of before my surgery, but deleted it, because I was just mortified of them. But, the worst part of all, is having other people tell me that I was right to want to cut myself open and stuff myself with silicone. My mother was my number one cheerleader saying things like "I know how you feel and its awful. Do it!" At 53, she had never learned to love herself or her body and had put all of those insecurities in me. I had grown up being told to be jealous of everyone around me and to hate myself or my body for not being the prettiest or most fashionable. I fought her and I fought all of this most of my life, because I grew up with brothers and am a rough and tumble kind of girl. But, it's so hard to ignore these lessons that I got from my own mother. I wish I could have blocked everyone out and just loved myself.

My last big regret is that I had totaled my car right before my surgery and being 22, about to graduate college with a ton of debt, I knew that financially, it was idiotic to go through with the surgery. I told my mom this, thinking she had my best interests in mind. She told me, "you're just trying to chicken out." I'm sad that I didn't talk to someone more reasonable.

Even now, I'm trying to find the good in what I've done. I was young and I wanted it ALL and I was going to have it all. In truth, this drive has helped me succeed and experience life in so many ways. I just wish that changing myself outwardly wasn't my goal. I worry that I have damaged my body beyond repair and that I may not even be able to afford to have them removed.

It took me a year to finally be able to take a trip home for the sole purpose of seeing my plastic surgeon. He said they look perfect and that I need to think about why I did them in the first place. That was really it, as far as negative comments. He then said that he's seen women bounce back so often that there was no doubt that they would like they used to. I had saved up $2000 in preparation and still worried that it would be more, but he said that he could do them under local anesthesia in the office. The billing receptionist said that the room fees could be $500, but she doesn't even think he'll make me pay that.

He did say that I should talk to my husband, because fake boobs are a visual stimulus. But, my husband was really supportive and even said that the removal might improve our sex life because of how fake the feel. All I have to do now is schedule my surgery.

Pictures to come. I'm just nervous about the whole boob pics thing! Even though, it's been so helpful that other people do it. I will pay it forward.