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Hi everyone :) I've been reading reviews on RS on...

Hi everyone :)

I've been reading reviews on RS on and off for a few months now. I appreciate everyone who has so openly shared their stories! I find them so incredibly helpful but also so troubling because I will read one that makes me 100% want implants and then another which makes me question getting them in the first place.

I have wanted larger breasts since I was 15 but have never truly considered getting the procedure done until now. I wanted to wait until my breasts had fully developed and now at 23 years old I am starting to consider it more seriously.

The hardest part for me on deciding whether or not to get them is because I have always felt very self-confident about my body overall. My breasts are a great shape and pretty much the same size but I've always been a "barely there" A cup - which has always been something I wanted to change. I'm just worried that if I go through with the procedure I will feel like I betrayed myself since I don't have a "real reason" for wanting them other than "I want them". I am currently in medical school and the idea of doing elective surgery makes me very nervous. It also makes me nervous that I will be a doctor with fake boobs - It just feels so unprofessional to me and I don't know why that is. :( I work with families living in severe poverty and I just feel so uneasy considering a surgery that I don't need for health reasons - I feel very privileged and very guilty.

If I was to get them done I plan to have them for about 10 years and then removing them completely when I am considering having children (age 33).

Here are my main concerns with the most pressing first:
1) Spending $7,000 on elective surgery - I would need to borrow about $4,000 from my mother to be safe.
2) Surgical complications
4) Ending up too big - Having them be too heavy, not being able to work-out, looking "fake" with and without clothes
5) Breast cancer screenings/ Needing MRIs
6) Regret/Embarrassment - Feeling like I'm being judged by those I tell and those I don't

I am uploading a bunch of wish pictures and I just need to keep thinking about it. I'm worried I will never be completely supportive of myself doing it but that I will always want it. I get so excited when I daydream about it, but then I get so bummed when I look through my list of worries.

Any input from people who went through this is greatly appreciated - I know it is ultimately my decision though. :/

Bella

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Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
8851 Center Dr., La Mesa, California