5 weeks post op from Mastopexy with Mesh

So I realized that I really suck at taking photos. I also realized that I failed to take before pictures, before my ‘22 surgery. Lol Luckily my doctor has those, but here are my “best that I could get” post op photos.
Everything still looks pretty beat up and their still on their healing journey, but I’m happy. Due to my PE they will never look normal, it’s just the way it is and I came to terms with that a long time ago, but in my opinion my doc did so well and as I’m healing I’m loving how they are progressing.
At my first post op appointment, my doc suggested I wedge something in between them as they heal to help encourage the right one to keep from settling too center again and I feel like it’s doing something. I
For now I am using a small rolled up baby washcloth, but he said he would be looking into possibly being able to get a special bra for me to use, while they are still healing. Honestly, it’s the underside of the right one that always dipped super low and center and that made it nearly impossible to wear a normal bra. So far it seems to be staying put.
I’m not out of my time frame to start experimenting with bras, so I’m still in loose, comfy bralettes, but I am curious to see how things fit when I can. It looks like I’ll stay around the same size as what I was before I went in, which was a full C/small D and I’m perfectly okay with that. I would have been okay if he said he’d have to go smaller. Lol My biggest end goal after this surgery was that I just wanted to be comfortable when wearing bras, so size wasn’t super important to me.
Side note: When I started this journey I had very unrealistic expectations & that coupled with the unforeseen complication…(that is outlined better in previous posts below)…made things incredibly difficult for me to come to terms with with this surgery. A lot of growing up was done between 2015 & 2022, so when I went in this year to get my consultation to see about getting them fixed, I went in with a very open mind, zero expectations and complete trust that my doctor would know what to do, to the best of his abilities. Unfortunately, sometimes, the body has different ideas and things don’t go as planned and that is where I am at currently.
He made sure to make me aware that I’ll more than likely still have to deal with shenanigans from my right side and that depending on how things go, because of my particular situation, will likely have to come back in 2-5 years. Here’s hoping for the latter! I don’t plan to add to my family anymore so I won’t be putting undue stress to the girls after this surgery. Lol I made it 5-7 years between the last two fixes so his timeline seems spot on, since there won’t be anymore pregnancies, I’m curious to see if I’ll be able to go longer and righty won’t throw too many shenanigans my way. Lol
I’ll keep updating as I have things to update.

That kinda felt like one of those Sponge Bob memes. Thought it was time for an update.

Okay so Monday I went in to have my 3rd breast aug procedure. My last post in here was from March of 2015 and it’s March of 2022. I’m so glad that I still had these to come back too, because I’ve since los all of my progress photos from that time.

Cliff notes of what happened:

After my first augmentation, unfortunately there was an unforeseen complication. I have a severely sunken chest wall situation and after the first surgery my right breast implant started to sink into the center of my chest. After trying everything we thought we could do, he ultimately decided to go back in on the right side and reinforce the pocket.

My right pocket revision lasted quite a while, I think longer than anyone thought it would. I ended up having two babies post op, but even after that, ole’ righty still managed to hold up. I started to notice more discomfort and more slippage In 2019. I went in November of 2019 for a consultation to get them refreshed, right before the virus crap hit the fan. Needless to say I ended up needing to wait longer to get the girls refreshed.

Finally March of this year I was able to check that goal off my list.

I ended up having a Mastopexy done with mesh. After having kids and all the other things, needless to say I definitely needed it. He suggested the mesh for my particular situation to give the implant more support.

I haven’t really looked at them much yet, the first time I took a look, I nearly passed out. Lol They look pretty banged up right now and I don’t have any photos to share yet, but I’m excited to see how they heal up. I’m so very grateful to my doctor and his kindness during this whole roller coaster.

Hey everyone!

I took another progress photo today and decided that I also needed to post an update.

Things aren't perfect but they are still way better than they were before my revision! I've gotten used to the fact and accepted that my breast just wont look "normal" because of my PE (Pectus Excavatum) issue.

While the right breast has slipped a little back off center it's not as near as bad as it used to be I feel. Wearing bras isn't an issue like it was before at all. There are still only certain ones that I can wear that are comfortable but I can still wear a real bra and not just live in sports bras and that is fine by me. Before my revision I couldn't wear anything but a sport bra comfortably so there's been definite improvement since my revision.

I'm still wearing an underwire bra to bed and underwire supportive bras during the day. This will probably be something I will do for a very, very long time. I've since gotten used to it so it's not a problem for me at all.

I'm sure that there is probably more my doc can do to further fix it if I pressed for it but my husband and I have decided that since I'm happy and comfortable now that we are just going to leave it be and focus on some other things that have come up in our family. Eventually we will try to see what more can be done but for now I'm perfectly happy with my breasts.

My doctor has done and amazing job and I don't regret this journey one bit and while this chapter is closed quite yet, I am book marking it for now!

Here's to a new journey for us!

I posted a finalish progress photo. I don't know that I will post more from this point forward until we decided to go in again. Thanks for keeping up with my story and following along! This place has been an invaluable source for support and the encouraging comments kept me going when I thought I'd made a terrible mistake. I would recommend my doctor to anyone!