POSTED UNDER Breast Implant Removal Reviews
Removal of my Implants under a local with sedation- Spain, ES
UPDATED FROM reed69
2 years post
Two years post explant and trying to move on!
reed69September 7, 2014
WORTH IT$1,800
Well i got a reminder from Real self to post another review as it has been 2 years now since my explant. I have just taken some more photos so here goes...... I only have photos of my breasts on here, all files at home have been deleted, i dont want a reminder of my journey! Most days i still look at them and regret what i did. I am in two minds about going for the fat transfer, will it make enough difference to me? Will i always be searching to get my nipples back how they were? Am am throwing money away? (which to be honest i dont have!!!) To be honest I have now finally excepted the size and for some reason i seem to have gone from a AA cup to maybe a small B cup, depending on what shop i buy my bras from! I dont know why they are slightly bigger but i am now ok about the size. THe nipples--well maybe one day i might except them. I am not going to rush into anything at the present moment. I have more important things to spend my money on like saving for a new car! Maybe i am now done with all of it, i am really not sure. At the moment i am doing ok. Life is good, i have a fab husband who loves for for who i am, he is not disgusted by how i look, but he supports me either way if i do go down the route of fat transfer. He has seen the tears i have cried over these breasts, but now i am thinking, HEY! there are so many people out there worse off then me. Whats a couple of weird looking nipples anyway! So thats it, me up to date! Probably no more reviews now unless i do go for the fat transfer. Take care all you ladies , old and new out there [RS bleep]
UPDATED FROM reed69
1 year post
FAT TRANSFER--ANY ADVICE!
reed69June 18, 2014
Hi all well a quick up date, i think i am going to go for a fat transfer--I copied this from the surgeon's website:-What is REGENERATIVE plastic surgery?
Traditionally plastic surgeons "reconstruct" using near or distant tissues with skin flaps and grafts. However, the REGENERATIVE CELLULAR PLASTIC SURGERY with the necessary tissues for a reconstruction can be obtained using the patients’ own cells which can regenerate themselves into the type of tissue necessary.
This is achieved using your "own regenerative cells" which have the potential to differentiate themselves (transform themselves) in many types of cells (muscle, blood vessels, fat, nerves) giving the plastic surgeon another alternative to reconstructive treatment. It really is another DIMENSION.
---It is more than a fat transfer and takes some fat from my stomach cleans it and replaces in my lower breast. (in a nut shell!) There is guarantee of regeneration and growth but NO guarantee of how much but it will make my lower breast and nipples look so much better. I may need 2 treatments, cost per treatment 2000€. Has anyone heard of this before? I am 44yrs old, i look in the mirror every day and hate how my breasts look, i am excited that this surgeon can help me and def knows what he is talking about--now i just have to save up!!! I my be on this planet for quite a few years to come and want to do something to make my nips a bit better--hey i may even go topless one day!!! LOL
Traditionally plastic surgeons "reconstruct" using near or distant tissues with skin flaps and grafts. However, the REGENERATIVE CELLULAR PLASTIC SURGERY with the necessary tissues for a reconstruction can be obtained using the patients’ own cells which can regenerate themselves into the type of tissue necessary.
This is achieved using your "own regenerative cells" which have the potential to differentiate themselves (transform themselves) in many types of cells (muscle, blood vessels, fat, nerves) giving the plastic surgeon another alternative to reconstructive treatment. It really is another DIMENSION.
---It is more than a fat transfer and takes some fat from my stomach cleans it and replaces in my lower breast. (in a nut shell!) There is guarantee of regeneration and growth but NO guarantee of how much but it will make my lower breast and nipples look so much better. I may need 2 treatments, cost per treatment 2000€. Has anyone heard of this before? I am 44yrs old, i look in the mirror every day and hate how my breasts look, i am excited that this surgeon can help me and def knows what he is talking about--now i just have to save up!!! I my be on this planet for quite a few years to come and want to do something to make my nips a bit better--hey i may even go topless one day!!! LOL
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June 18, 2014
Hi there ..you have to do what you have to do...but really you look good. Your breasts are a perfect size!! Yes your nipples are still not perfect but you were doing so well before the revision. What will having a fat transfer do for your nipples because your volume is good. Just giving you my opinion. Personally i would leave them alone. [RS bleep]
June 18, 2014
Hi light again thankyou for your post. The fat transfer will bring out my lower part of my breast and stop my nipples from pointing down and inwards and also improve the look of my scarring. This is not to enlarge my breasts but purely to make the lower part more in line with the upper part. I am conscious of wearing any kind of top without a bra as my nipples dont point outward but downward and inward which sort of causes an indent in my t-shirts. I dont feel attractive anymore, it has affected the physical side of my relationship with my husband of 23 years. For nearly 2 years i have tried to accept them but i still hate the look so i think i will go for this but not until after the summer. [RS bleep] I really have tried to be positive, i have had acupuncture, spent ridiculous amounts of money on gimmick medicines but there has been no real improvement. Admittedly they do look a bit better. Who knows after the summer i may change my mind again! x
June 19, 2014
I do understand how you are feeling disappointed and i wish you hadn't had a revision as that made them worse than before. I am not sure how long a fat transfer can last...you need to ask the doctor to be truthful about that. Maybe it could lift it up maybe not. The reason they fell in is because your implants were removed through the nipple. The scarring contracted and sucked it in. Would it be possible maybe instead to see about having the upper part of your nipple opened up so that that part would contract and they would be even again? What about a filler under the lower part of the nipple..just to see? I would consider other options as well. If you only had two months to live what would you be thinking of.... I seriously am trying to give you some advice and hope you don't mind..just weigh all your options that's all. Remember ,...it's just a tiny part of your body..and your husband is not withyou because of your nipples!! He loves you and wants you to be happy with yourself :) Huggzz xx
June 19, 2014
Thanks Light again, i have been thinking about your comments most of the day today while i was at work! No i will not rush into this. As this consultant said there might be a little more improvement , he also told me to massage the scar with Bio oil. He was not pushy in anyway. The fat transfer (not sure of the proper terminology as just found out about it). I was aware of a kind of fat transfer a few years ago but then most of the fat was reabsorbed, almost all was lost. This new procedure, yes, some is lost but there will def be some permanent fat left as well as stem cells from this to aid re growth. I am only having 50cc of fat removed from my abdomen and then only 25cc injected into the scar of each breast to smooth it out a bit. (apparently i have alot of deep scarring) I am not going to have anymore surgery/ to be cut in this area ever again! It is a new treatment, there is not enough research to say yes or no that it can cause breast cancer but what i have read so far is that a large transfer of fat into the breast can give false alarms to non cancerous lumps and biopsies can be taken when it is not necessary. This kind of technique is even used on women who have had breast cancer and have had lumpectomies etc to re shape their breasts. So there is a mixed bag of reviews on this. The Brava system is costly and cant really be used without a treatment to run along side it, so i have opted out of this. But i am open to suggestions and you have got me thinking. Yesterday I actually showed my husband my breasts / nipples up close. Now he does understand what all the fuss is about but he says he loves me and its not a problem for him my breast as they are now. I think because i know this is maybe not permanent, whether in time they will improve more or with the help of a fat transfer I feel more at ease and more comfortable to be without a bra..well at home anyway but it is a start! thanks for your advice [RS bleep] Take care over there, now its midnight and i am off to bed. for you i am sure it is some time in the day LOL [RS bleep]
June 18, 2014
I don't want to sound negative, but since you and I have the same problem with our nipples, I figure that I would give you my opinion. I've thought about doing fat transfer too, but then talk myself out of the idea because it's too new and too risky with or without stem cells. I've seen a lot of fat transfer reconstruction pictures and a lot of them the fat look lumpy, I couldn't deal with that. Also you have a great stomach, and so do I, what if I am not happy with the way it looks after the lipo? Another body part to worry about? Also no one knows for sure if these stem cells increase the risk of breast cancer. Anyways, those are the reasons for me not to do the stem cell fat transfer. I am going to try the brava system in the near future and hopefully that will help, if not I think getting some type of filler in small amounts could also help to bring out the scar. My advice to you is to think about it really good before doing that, because doctors can tell you something will work and when it doesn't you are left with the same problem but a lot less money.
September 7, 2014
This is going to sound odd, but other than the issues with your nipples, I think the size and over all shape of your breasts is wonderful. My breasts naturally had little lower pole fullness, with all the breast tissue I had (I was an a/b before implatation) in the upper pole which made some bras fit oddly, so I totally relate.
Has there been any explanation as to why your nipples seem to invert?
September 7, 2014
Hi bsbfankaren, no not really any concrete explanation but all i would say to women considering explant, think twice about explanting in the areola area! I will post more pics, i am 2 yrs post explant now xx
September 7, 2014
After all the reviews I've read, I think you have a point about explanting through the areola. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on one's prospective I suppose), my implants were through the breast fold, or the breast fold that was created for me when I got implants. Therefore my explant will be through there as well. Thanks for the update. I hope my breasts look as good as your's do. Your breasts look like a B cup to me, by the way.
September 7, 2014
I think you look fine. I know we're all very critical of ourselves. I think the fat transfer would be helpful toward the look you're going for. But, you're NOT ugly, you look fine!
UPDATED FROM reed69
1 year post
final pics for you all x
reed69February 16, 2014
Well its been a while again....here are my final pics of how i am up to date. Since the last post i have done nothing but take vitalzym, i haven't even massaged. I hate it all now. I think there is a slight change to the breasts but they are misshapen still. I do not like my size...but this is me--how i was made and i have to accept it. I feel i have been teased by having the implants and what i could of looked liked--although the surgeon went too big, i only wanted a B cup. But for the years they were in I hated the falseness of them. So a AA I am!! Maybe i am one of those people floating around the universe never settling for what you have got! Well i am being honest and no i dont really like my breast size...maybe one day i will love them but i think that is highly unlikely. I just have to focus on my family, my life and that i have good health. Nothing more should matter.
And REAL SELF CHICKS OUT THERE ------YES ! YOU ALL ROCK XXXXXXX thankyou all so so so much for your words of kindness and support [RS bleep] I will never forget this site and from time to time i will take a look and see what is going on.
And REAL SELF CHICKS OUT THERE ------YES ! YOU ALL ROCK XXXXXXX thankyou all so so so much for your words of kindness and support [RS bleep] I will never forget this site and from time to time i will take a look and see what is going on.
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February 16, 2014
HUGS! Thank you so much for updating with photos. You have helped me a lot!
We are on this journey together Reed69! Check out 007b a website that that examines breast function, size etc.....I found it while googling small breasts. It was cool to see some guys post how they like small or even no breasts to large boobs. They said that guys have preferences on all sorts of things- some guys like large nipples, some small, and so on. And each reiterated that they never just look at boobs- the girl has to be nice, smart etc. When d we become so warped? I will have a small AA when done. Not enough for a demi bra. Somehow I am going to learn to rock this. Join me?
February 17, 2014
Hi Tiggerousity, i just looked on this site....this page is good:-
http://www.007b.com/flat-chested-2.php . Yep i will try to Rock this--I will join you in small is beautiful----LOL x
February 17, 2014
I can see they are getting better but It takes time. After the year they will be even nicer. I hate my size too even though I am not really that small. I am still looking for options to make them just a little bigger but never with implants. The truth is that nothing really works, so we have to try to be happy with what we have and like you said focus on other things. I think you look good with small breasts and they are just going to keep on getting better. I am happy for you!
February 17, 2014
Thanks Lidia for your comment and your honesty x-- just have to keep saying small is beautiful! x
May 26, 2014
I think I can see an improvement over time. I'm trying to word this carefully so as not to sound unsympathetic...but how often do we walk around topless? And you look amazing in bras, underwear and bikinis, there's not many people who can say that! You do, you honestly look hot, you have a great body, real shape and curves but slender, athletic and elegant. Breasts are beautiful because of the woman they are on. I think small is beautiful and so is big, yours aren't at all saggy either. Your review will help a lot of ladies in your situation, big thanks for it and good luck!
May 26, 2014
Meant to add, your husband clearly loves you very much, and you love him. Trust him and let him get closer to you again, if the situation was reversed and something happened to his appearance that he considered negative, you wouldn't love or want him less would you? Trust in what you have, 22 years is an achievement these days. :) xxxx
May 26, 2014
Hi Alliegb, thankyou for taking the time to write on my post. I really do appreciate it...l can't believe how much my breasts have taken over my life. It has been tough for me...l have it in my stupid head that my hubby likes big breasted woman all because a a silly comment he made just before I explanted. I have little confidence in my body up until Sunday. ..l am ashamed to admit. .but also relieved that last Sunday I finally showed my husband my breasts! It has taken 20 mths since explant for hubby to see my breasts. ..He was ok. .He is not one for loads of words of encouragement. .He just said..what have you been worried about!? He admitted they were not quite right but it wasno big deal. So this was a huge step. Now i just have to start to love ME and move on. Yes your right 22 yrs is an achievement. .we do love each other very much and now I have to start to behave more like a woman and get that spark back again. ...my poor hubby has been very patient LOL x
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