39 UK Decided to Explant After 16 Years of Textured Saline Implants Placed over the muscle (295cc) - Swansea, GB

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

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 ??????

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.