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39 UK Decided to Explant After 16 Years of Textured Saline Implants Placed over the muscle (295cc) - Swansea, GB
UPDATED FROM laterchoices
3 years post
4 years on!
laterchoicesMay 23, 2020
WORTH IT$5,280
So I found my old log in completely forgot I posted all these must have been high on meds! Thought I would show you a 4 year later couple of pics, nipples not perfectly sown back on but I’ll take that. Overall really pleased, running is easier, feel so much happier all natural, don’t need to wear a bra if I don’t want to either, feel loads healthier too. So I would say to anyone who is considering explanting just do it! Good luck ladies xxx
UPDATED FROM laterchoices
10 days post
9 Days post I plant.
laterchoicesAugust 7, 2016
Ok so I am nine days in, or out, however you wish to look at it ????. Honestly, it's been tough. I don't know if it's because I am older, but the recovery of this op in comparison to 3 c sections, or having the implants in the first place has been much harder. I think if I would have just had them taken out without the lift things would have been easier, but I don't regret having the lift because I do love the shape that they look like they are going to be, and the scars will fade. After been trussed up like a chicken for a week I was looking forward to having the dressings changed on Friday. Even though I thought I was prepared for seeing them cut up, I wasn't. The nurse asked if I wanted to see them in the mirror before she dressed the cuts with new strips. I said yes. The feeling was a strange one mixed with many emotions. Starting with the positive I felt happy about the shape, it could have been a lot worse! I felt sadness and anger about what I had done to my body. Basically these new breasts are pretty much like what I started with at 23, a little bigger but same shape. Although now I have cuts around my nipples, and my right one has been sown back on with a more oblong shape rather than the pretty much perfect sphere (in my opinion) that nature blessed me with. The cuts from the nipple down and across....just didn't make me feel happy. I look mutilated.....and I only have myself to blame. I felt stupid.....I have just completed a degree and got a first....but I felt stupid. I am trying to be as honest as I can about my feelings on this review as I know many of you will be reading these reviews every day, looking at your mailbox every morning and clicking on the real self notification hoping to find a story similar to yours with a good outcome. Overall I have a good, if not amazing outcome. Yes the cuts made me take a sharp breath in....but why wouldn't they? But I can categorically state that there is not one tiny bit of me that regrets this decision. I feel better. I have more clarity of thought, my arms are not numb in the morning. I have already lost the puffiness in my face and body adding up to 6lbs on the scales. I feel like me again.....which is not to be underestimated. Today we went for lunch as a family, I am still a bit sore but stopped taking my pain meds 4 days ago ( as they felt quite nice and didn't want to get addicted ha ha! ) I wore a blouse that before my explant kept popping open on the bust, today it didn't. Besides the health advantages, I have also had a few comments on how slim I look, and how fresh I look. My eye whites are brighter and my skin is glowing. I believe these bags were poisoning me. So trust your gut instinct ladies and do what ya gotta do. Big love everyone and happy healing...inside and out ??????
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August 7, 2016
Not sure why it says I plant.....think I wrote implant which is obviously wrong also!! Too much vino at lunch possibly
August 8, 2016
They look great!!! Better shape now if you don't mind me saying then before!! Thank you for update! I've looked into a labtesting to see if I can get bloods done for toxic substances. Seeing your boobies I might take out anyway, although you have good tissue there, not sure I will fill out as well as you?! Xx
August 23, 2016
You look great! I have been researching for months on having my implants removed. Thanks for your story.
August 23, 2016
The final result is going to look amazing! Good cleavage, your nipples are up and even. You look 21!
UPDATED FROM laterchoices
3 days post
Day 4 Post Op
laterchoicesJuly 31, 2016
Well I have been mostly hanging out in my bedroom the last couple of days, hubby is around pottering he managed to get some time off to be here to help. I would advise having someone with you for a few days, it has been nice not to worry about getting food or tea etc. My children are coming home today and I can't wait to see their little faces, they are only 3 and 5 so I imagine I will have many questions to answer. I will omit the real story I think, my eldest is 20 and she knows, however I was embarrassed to tell her too, but thought I should in case anything went wrong in surgery. As she was only 4 when I had them I never had to tell her, I obviously wasn't too proud of it myself and funnily would be disappointed if she came to me and said she wanted implants. This would never happen as she is very confident in her own skin, she has a small frame, and I think her acceptance of what she has been naturally given also has inspired me to explant. Lessons learned from our children....what a wonderful thing! I wonder why I did not have her grace when I was 20...I wonder why I was not happy with my minimal cup size....it would have saved me a lot of pain now. Anyway, on to today, I am going to have a bath. I am not able to wet the dressings so I will have a shallow bath, then ask hubby to wash my hair, although leaning over bath will be tricky I imagine as when I lean forward slightly the sensation I get in my breast is as if they are filling up. That is the only way I can describe it, it's not painful but weird. About meds, I did take a sleeping tablet last night and previous nights, my GP only gave me 3 but I would advise taking them as you have to sleep in a slightly sitting up position for the first few nights with lots of cushions behind you. It has made my nights more comfortable. When I awoke this morning the pain was indeed less than yesterday, but still panful, so I have taken 2 X 30mg codeine sulphate. I am also taking a week of anti biotics, and 30c Arnica, I will resume all other vits and mins tomorrow, I usually take a good multivitamin, omega 3, vitamin C and a B Complex. I hope my reviews are giving you insight of what you will be facing, it is also helping my process to be able to share so thank you for reading.
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July 31, 2016
Hi Laterchoices,
Glad your ok. Reading that post made me think about my kids- older than yours 34 and just 30 but my daughter is also petit and would never do this to herself either. You are so right- we learn from them or they make us feel humbled by their wisdom often.
I too had a low bath this morning. Husband had been good- I put a wash on and he's pegged it out bless him. He's set me up in the sunny garden with the Sunday papers and the dogs are st my feet- blissful.
Have a lovely day today with your babies. Healing hugs to you. Xx
August 1, 2016
Hi there ... I must say your post made me feel like a bit of a kindred spirit! I too had saline implants for 17 years with no trouble at all until about 4 yeas ago when I had an unexplained Seroma which was drained but this was followed soon after by lumps in my breast (which the nhs said was the implant port although I had never felt this before and the implants don't turn) followed by hugely infected underarm lymph nodes. At that time I was told that my implants were intact so it was just a node infection and had surgery to remove two that had grown to the size of walnuts. This was never attributed to my implants by any dr, nhs or private. All was ok for a while but then at the beginning of the year I noticed hardness in the right which was soon followed by a redness on the crease line. I visited my gp who did not examine me and got referred privately (as I felt the nurses and Drs at the nhs breast clinic treated me like a lepper as I had elective breast implants) and the private dr advised that I had a massive infection and that the implants would probably need to come out. We tried four courses of antibiotics first but none worked. It was with great sadness that I had my implants removed but initially I was intending to have them replaced. I then stumbled across this site and, like you, started reading!!!! It was then I realised that I could not have them replaced as I would end up in this same boat again, sooner or later down the line and was it worth it? Like you said, the answer is no. I must admit to feeling devastated at the 'loss of my breasts' as my natural breasts are now very flat and small and I Miss having the volume and 34c size. But, I do feel healthier and natural. I do regret having then in the first place, but hey ho, the benefit of hindsight!!! I am getting used to my new body shape and have bought some silicone bra inserts to fill my old bigger bras for when I want to wear something more fitting and they work a treat!! Like you my implants just felt part of me for so long and I feel lucky that as far as I can tell i had no other illnesses associated with them ... But I l don't feel that I would have been that lucky a second time. I to have two children (7&11) and I have not told them about what I've had done .... But my 7 year old has noticed my breasts are a lot smaller!!! All in all explant was the only and right thing to do... I'm sad but I'll get over it... I'm healthy so that's all that matters now. I do have 4 other friends with implants and they refuse to look at this type of site as they feel that theirs are OK in their body but I Guess as soon as they start experiencing problems (which they will sooner rather than late) they will be calling me up. But right now they really have no idea that the silicone shells are falling apart inside them (they are all 12+ years post BA) but they won't listen to me or take my experience Into consideration... Makes me sad. If only PS's put pictures of post explant in their brochures alongside post BA, maybe then we would all reconsider doing this to ourselves at all... ☹️
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