MyStats and MyStory - 25yo, 5'9, 158lbs, aiming A to C cup with 335cc hp polyurethane implants - Sydney, AU

The 3 Week Post-Op Milestone has been reached! :D and I have to admit, I was pretty excited about this day :P the 3 week day meant 4 big things for me:
1) I could start wearing a "non-padded-soft-bra-with-no-underwire" (direct quote)
2) I could start sleeping on my side
3) I can do lower body exercises (like stationary cycling)
4) and I can begin rubbing vitamin E oil into my scars.

:) So all these new things (in my head) meant progress and healing and therefore excitement! I was so excited in fact, that a work-mate asked me what had me so excited and I had to do a quick-think for a reason other than "today is the first day I get to wear a bra in 3 weeks!" :/ I settled down after that haha.

The very first night I could, I tried sleeping on my side, but it just squished the "side-boob" so much that it was uncomfortable, a little painful and just made me worried that I'd cause some sort of permanent positioning problem while I slept (lol!) so it was back to back-sleeping for that night. Tried again the next night and managed a 45-degree oblique sleep :) until I had a nightmare about how I was showing people how I could move my implant around underneath my skin, irrespective to the surrounding skin and muscles :| it was so vivid, that it was back to back-sleeping after that again for me!

My skin doesn't itch as much anymore, not at all really. But I did find for a little while, that it felt like a red-raw sunburn all over, especially with clothing touching it. Coming home from work at the end of the day would feel like a burning layer of missing skin, swollen and irritated nipples and I'd have swelling pooling around the lower half of my breasts, especially at the incision sites. Kinda made me miss the itching!! But it's becoming more and more manageable every day :) especially with our work receptionist away, who I was assigned to cover for ;) which gave me a nice rest at work.

I discovered Sex and the City during my recovery! I know I'm about 2 decades too late haha, but considering that the series aired when I was 8 years old.. I think now is just the right time to "discover" it! :P so that, Malteasers and online shopping for new tops for my new boobies :P has been the predominant recovery method for me for the last week or two hehe.

I've added the following photos:
- my "non-padded-soft-bra-with-no-underwire" that I can finally wear :D
- a new comparison of before, surgery day, day 11 and day 24
- 2 change views from before to today (front and side)

Also wondering the following things:
- Who prefers/recommends moisturising cream vs oils?
- How often do you condition your scars?
- Has anyone else had any boob nightmares?
- How do you manage your boob whilst trying to sleep on your side!

Hope everyone is keeping well, I've noticed all this moisturising has definitely improved my skin! I might have to make this a regular thing for my whole body! All 5'9" of it :/ that could be a lot of cream haha! Bye for now x

So, going back to work! Ended up being way way waay tougher than I originally thought it would be! :( Luckily for me, my workplace is so supportive and flexible that I could move around to whichever department gave me the most relief on my body. Day one however, by about 3 hours in I was burning something fierce between the shoulder blades, and by 4 hours, I was ready for my usual nap :P But I made it through the day :) (I was quite proud of myself) and only cried once I got home haha.
My Mum massaged my back for me and the (soft) massage hurt so much that I was doing that laugh-cry-sob thing you do when you’re in pain but not actually sad :/ so that was fun. I had a late-to-early shift that day (meaning I got home at about 8pm that night and had to leave for work again at about 6am the next morning). Needless to say I didn’t sleep well that night, was 1.5hrs late to work, and try as hard as I could to make it through my second day back, I was sent home early; tired, in pain, nauseous and just emotionally drained! Which reminds me, I still have to give my manager the little box of chocolates I bought her for spending her lunch-break comforting my tears haha. I think I was just barely coping with it all, until the nausea hit (which I think was actually from constipation to be honest, because once I was home I felt much better.. if you get my meaning!).
I am so thankful for that manager and my boss because they practically forced me home to rest that day and told me not to come in the next day either. I took the weekend to recover and when I went back yesterday, made sure to keep on top of the painkillers and I did much better! :) So I have another day off tomorrow (shift work means I work odd days) and then I’ll be covering our receptionist who is away for a few days, so the sitting will be a nice break on my poor shoulders! Is anyone else experiencing this constant burning between their shoulder blades? Any tips for relief?

On the plus side, I created another comparison photo and I think I can actually see some development happening which is pretty cool! I wasn’t expecting to so that was really exciting for me. My cleavage is still quite swollen, so I don’t really feel like that is taking on its proper shape yet, but there seems to be some nice “side-boob” and I don’t know… “breast crease”(?) happening haha. All this boob terminology I’ve never had to use before :P I’ve added a list below of all the funny things I keep noticing or doing throughout the day, now that I have boobs to actually “get in the way” :P which I am loving!

Funny things I’m still getting used to:
- feeling “side-boobs” whenever I move my arms!
- forgetting that I have side-boobs and accidentally squishing them with my arms :/
- accidentally knocking myself in the boobs! with my hands, plates, water bottles, my phone… you name it, it’s probably hit me in the tit in the past day or two!
- grazing my boobs when I’m reaching for things because I forget that there’s something there to avoid now lol
- I leaned over to reach for something on my bed earlier and ended up with my boob in my handbag lol
- having to check if your nipples are showing through a (what used to be) baggy shirt before heading to the shops without a bra on
- not being able to see that little freckle, that I know is under my left breast, in the shower anymore!
- questioning whether that little freckle really is under the left breast.. or if it’s really under the right breast.. but not being able to check anyway because you can’t see under either of your breasts anymore!
- seeing a seatbelt actually “sit between” your breasts whilst you’re driving (a strange one I know lol)
- and reminding yourself to stop being distracted by checking out your own boobs all the time (especially whilst driving!)

:) I hope you enjoyed my little list of recent epiphanies :P I know they’ve definitely been entertaining me non-stop! So until my next time lovelies! Stay well Xx

G'day everyone :)
So I've been doing some comparison shots from before and after my surgery and I thought I'd upload these two. Excuse the blurriness, was having trouble keeping my arm extended and still for so long! I'm thinking i definitely look slimmer in the before photo (picture 1), and I never wanted my breasts to make me look larger overall so that's my only concern, but I'm hoping this is mostly because the after shot is slightly more zoomed in than the before photo and hopefully because I'm still quite bloated post-surgery. Ultimately I was told that my new breasts will enhance my slim waistline as the eye is drawn down into my waist, so I should still appear slim down there eventually :) But anyway, it's nice to finally see some womanliness to my upper body figure haha!

I had my post-op consult yesterday which went really well! He said I'm healing nicely and he's happy with the healing, positioning, symmetry and swelling (or lack of, lucky me!). I was reminded to keep my posture upright and shoulders back (I'm still hunching) and this is causing me some back and neck pain. Boob pain and tightness is almost gone (so far only half a muscle relaxant and 2 panadol's this morning) :) and I'm using heat packs for my back which the surgeon said was fine. I was also warned that weeks 2-4 are when I really need to be careful about my activities. As this is when I'll start to feel better and want to do more strenuous activities, but this is actually when the scar tissue will be forming and latching onto the implant the most, and so this is the greatest risk of detachment point for me in my recovery (remembering that I think I have uncommon implants so this may not apply to other ladies).

Overall I couldn't be happier with my choice of surgeon, the operation day itself and my recovery so far! :) I go back to work in 2 days and feel ready (I'm down to 1 nap per day now so we'll see how I go today :P) Good luck to everyone still to go and I'll continue to post updates and photos over the coming weeks :) Xx