Fitness Lover & Psoriasis Sufferer! (470cc Round XHP ) -Sydney, AU

Hi ladies,

A couple of things I haven't covered but am sure it would be useful for you girls to know:
So my necessities, the things I wouldn't have survived without straight up after surgery - COLD bottled water, straws & lip balm. These three things lived in between me and my partner on the bed, I had a small table next to me with some biscuits, baby wipes, magazines and so forth but these things were something I constantly needed.

Prune juice = GROSS GROSS GROSS. Seriously, just eat peaches and have a green tea/coffee. I didn't eve use my stool softeners and had gone by day 3!
I would have bowl of peaches in juice and a green tea each morning.

I stacked my pillow tower/fort like this and am still using it like this, it's super comfy.
Flat rectangle pillow, U shaped pillow, flat rect pillow then a rect soft fluffy square pillow on top. I also then lean the same kind of soft/fluffy pillow against my pillow tower and this one gives support for your bum and back! It's the perfect set up!

Driving is STILL difficult, I have an auto so I have it easy but I find checking my blind spot very difficult. I respect you manual girls!

That's all I can think of for now but will update if I think of anything else!

Xo

I'm 16 days PO now, I'll recap the past two weeks.

So my adventure into the city didn't go too well, not pain or boob wise but more the fact we drove for THREE HOURS trying to park, we decided to give up and just went home. I had an endone that night so I would rest better.

I experienced boob noises/farts, I would make people put their finger on my boob because you could feel the vibration of the boobie fart as well as hear it. It was a pretty cool party trick to gross people out!
I went for my 1 week post up check on day 6 because they couldn't get me in on the Tuesday.
My partner came with me because I still wasn't up to driving, so we went in and was seen by a nurse (I wasn't sure whether I'd see a nurse or my actual doctor). She took off the waterproof bandages (Oww.. they were stuck on there good!) and replaced them with steri strips, she said that my incisions we're looking immaculate but I didn't actually have a look myself. She then showed me how to massage the top and in between of my breasts which I'm required to do 3x a day, I also purchased the ointment they suggest to put on my incisions but I cant seem to find it so I will have to let you know what its called later!
I am required to keep the steri strips on until week 3 and if they haven't fallen off on their own by then I need to remove them while I'm in the shower.
Pain wise - It hurt to laugh, oh my god. One of my nipples would have this sharp pain every time I laughed I would have to cradle my boob while laughing and then whinge in pain while laughing, it was VERY awkward!! Other than that the constant pain has died off completely and now is a more constant discomfort, you can ALWAYS feel them there because my muscle and skin is still so tight they're compressing the implant so I always have a tight/enlarged feeling on my chest. I get the occasional pain/throb/sensations still daily but nothing too bad. They are still very tender to touch.

I went back to work on day 12, I drove myself but I had a pillow resting in my lap/under my boobs so it would soften any bumps I would hit, I still use it now and think I will for a while too. When I go on short drives with my partner and he hit bumps without care it does hurt quite alot! So since I have to drive an hour to work then an hour home through very rural roads, I'm going to keep using the pillow until I feel comfortable.

So seriously not much has happened between day 7 and now. They haven't changed too much but I have noticed that my right one has started to drop! So stoked! My left side is still very high and tight which is strange because I always thought it would be the dominant arm/side that gives the troubles.

Anyway I've included some of the photos I have taken over the past week, in some photos you can see the psoriasis I was talking about that I get along my breasts, but hopefully now I'm back on my medication and ointment for it it'll start easing up :)

Xo

Hi ladies, so here's my updates with the past few days of recovery and also some pictures :)

Surgery Night - So the day of surgery I only took one endone at my midnight medication time (My medication times are at 6am, 12pm, 6pm, 12am) so I could try and sleep but I only got 4 hours of sleep which sucked, I guess it was because I'm not use to sleeping sitting up right so it was a bit awkward.

Day 1 Post Op - I woke up in quite a bit of pain, I'd say an 8/10. So not much happened on this day, I was sore and tight but nothing too extreme. My boyfriend had to bathe me in the shower which was slightly hilarious and I got to have a good look at my boobs for the first time. My god they're high and swollen but SOOO stoked to finally have something there! I've got the deep red bruises around my incision site while I've got a dark shaded bruise between my cleavage and on my right side boob. Barely any blood on the bandages, soo happy! I took 2 panadine forte every 6 hours until my midnight meds where I took an endone to help sleep and this night I got 7 hours sleep with a couple of half hour/hour naps during the day. Still struggling to find that comfortable sleeping position.

Day 2 Post Op - Woke up in about 9/10 pain, veryyy sore but after taking some panadine forte it became manageable. Throughout the day I started to get this really persistent headache that just wouldn't budge, you would think the pain killers would get rid of it? But nope! Anyway, had my 6pm dinner and meds and about 8pm fell asleep for a nap to wake up around 11.30 feeling EXTREMELY nauseous. I moved from the couch to the bed hoping it would just quietly disappear, asked my partner if I could take my meds early because while I was moving from the couch to the bed I had eaten two of his jax biccies and even that was just feeling way too heavy on my stomach so I didn't really want to eat again and thought those jax biscuits could just serve as my small meal for the meds.
Anyway he refused and told me to just have another nap and he would wake me up for my meds in an hour, so I tried to rest but it got to the point where I knew I was going to throw up. About 12.30am I grabbed the bucket that was beside my bed (I had been using it as a trash can since I had never needed to puke) got him to clean the bag of rubbish out of it, put a new plastic bag in it and took it outside with me to throw up in. I spent about 10 minutes throwing up my dinner and anything that was in my stomach, I expected to have severe pains in my chest while throwing up but honestly it felt no different.
Anyway, after I had cleaned myself up I slowly chewed down half a cruskit and after I was feeling positive that I wasn't going to throw up again I took my antibiotics as well as just one panadol because I didn't want a heavy pain killer then put myself to sleep straight away so I could just forget about the sickly feeling.

Post Op Day 3 - Woke up today perfectly at 6am, took my anti biotics and one panadine forte and just didn't move out of bed so I wouldn't feel the severity of the morning boob. I sent an email to TCI with just a general question because I was just curious that if I was to get sick again and I had JUST taken my antibiotics would I need to take another dosage or skip it? I told them how I had been sick and had a headache still and was only really expecting a simple answer in return.
I fell back asleep and woke up at 9 and then at about 9.15 I got a call from TCI asking how I was doing, about my sickness last night and too book my 1 week check up.
Anyway she had told me that it was the painkillers CAUSING the headache (that one surprised me) and sickness, she advised me to try and cut them out and stick to regular nurofen and panadol, which is fine by me! Id take the extra 1 point of pain than having to feel sick again! So I'd say my pain is at a dull throb of 2/10 if sitting still where as on the other meds I didn't feel anything whilst sitting. My stomach isn't 100% but as for my chest its feeling better and better as the days go on.

I'm having my first 'Adventures in the outside world' tomorrow. So I don't go stir crazy I told my mum that I would come watch my younger brothers football game during the day and then at night time my partner and I have to trek an hour into the city to see the Vivid Lights festival and dinner for his sisters birthday. So it should be interesting as to how I hold up, I plan on taking a pillow with me in the car to the city so I can either A) sleep or B) rest it between my boobs/seat belt so it doesn't hurt too much.
Will have to let you know how I cope :)

Anyway sorry for the wall of text, just thought I should update on how I'm going.
Boobie wishes to all! xo