It's About Time!! 23 Year Old Silicone Under Muscle Implants Are Coming OUT!! - Red Bluff and Redding, CA

It's been two months since my explantation and I am thrilled to have that in my past!!! I am very happy with my decision to remove my implants and even though the first week or so was uncomfortable I had a very easy recovery. I am posting pics so you can see the two months difference. My surgeon said that my lift would not look that great at first, that they would need to settle and it could take serveral months. He also said that he might need to clean up the incisions below my breasts because at the time of surgery with explant, removal of capsules and lift--it can get a little hard to make a clean look. There is no charge for anything that he does at this point with my breasts but there is NO way I am doing anything!! I am SO done with healing and I am just going to be happy with with I have now. At this point, I am kind of wondering why I paid the extra money to have the lift. My one wish with the lift was to get it so that my nipples wouldn't be pointing down. From what you will see in the pics--they still do! I have to be patient with the settling but right now? Eh. Don't get me wrong--I am happy with the overall look and my nipples healed beautifully!!! I have more feeling in them then I did the 23 years I had the implants but the girls are still looking down at my feet ;) Time will tell, I am just moving forward and not obsessing on this minute part of my body! I look great in bras and feel great. I am even training to run a 10K in April with my 25 year old daughter. I would have never done this before because I felt so bogged down by my implants. I am excited to train and get in amazing shape--these past couple of months have been a free pass to just relax and heal. I am doing my pilates on the reformer. I started after a month post-op but mainly did lower body, after a few weeks I added upper body and abs but went very light. We had about a 10 day holiday but yesterday I was back at it!! There were still a few positions I went lighter on but all in all I feel healed. Speaking of feeling--if I feel my breasts my right breast feels all soft and sweet but my left has a tightness where the lift is underneath--I have been massaging that with bio oil. Hopefully that too will go away--I just want to feel natural again. As far as training for 10 K-- I am doing an app that is called couch to 10K which starts you off slow and helps keep you from getting burned out or injured. I am wearing double support bras to keep my new girls from feeling too much bouncing--so far so good!! My original bra size was a 36 big D and now I am a 34 or 36 C. It will also be interesting to see what happens when I lose the 10 lbs that I hope to lose with the training!! EEK! Oh well, it's not about the boobs for me anyway anymore and I feel great--whole!! Thanks for all the support in the past few months I couldn't of done it without this site and ALL you fabulous ladies!!!!!

Two weeks post op and I'm finally feeling somewhat normal. The pics I've posted I took this AM and the girls seem to be healing nicely. There is a little "tuck" on the bottom of my right breast incision but I am waiting to see if it settles down. My PS said that if it looks messy he can do a little clean-up work on the scar--no biggie and no charge :) Most of my bruising is gone and I have probably more feeling around nipples than I did with the implants. The thick feeling under my breasts from the lift is softening somewhat and again--its only been two weeks so I am not that concerned. I went back to Pilates class on Monday and just did legs(lower body). I don't do mat Pilates, I am on a reformer machine so I think it was easier to not deal with any upper body movements. It felt soooo good to stretch and move!!! I don't go back until next Monday because of the holiday but it was nice to get a little workout in. I have been walking about 1 1/2 miles almost every day. Oh! I tried on the cutest little lace bra my 25 year old daughter sent me--it's made by Ultimately Free People--it's just stretchy lace but a cute cut and somewhat supportive. She bought it at Nordstroms. I will include it when I take photos again but for now I'm in my underwire still and patiently waiting to wear the cute little nothing bras :) I feel SO MUCH less matronly without my implants--it was SO worth it to me!!!

Here are my post op pics--one week. Redness underneath is from this super type bra!!!! Yeeeiiii!!!