Second Revision - 2 Years, 3 Surgeries, $15,000

I'm coming up on 3 months post my second revision. I'm waiting until I'm 6 months post to decide whether my second revision was worth it. I've stuck by the same surgeon for all 3 surgeries, but am at the point now where I really feel I can say that I feel I chose the wrong surgeon. While I think Dr. Diaco is probably good at breast augmentations, I don't feel based on my 3 surgeries that he has the skill to do a breast lift with implants.

You can go back and look at my first review after my initial lollipop lift with implants. I didn't like the shape. They were two different shapes, my left looked (and actually is) larger than my right, the pockets were two big, I had loose skin, permanent nerve damage to my left breast effecting like the 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock area of my breast. It's completely numb. This is also the area that is larger-looking, and hard-feeling. I wanted smaller areola and was disappointed with the size.

I had to pick and choose my battles when I went back for my revision. I chose to focus on getting capsulorrhapies on the left and right so they wouldn't fall into my armpits, would tighten up the pockets and make them more symmetrical. I thought at the time, not knowing the negative impact it would have,. that replacing my 350s with larger implants would help fill up the loose skin and by using high profile implants, I would have that nice round breast like in my wish pics. Wrong-o! If you take anything away from my review, going larger isn't always a good thing. Dr. Diaco was going to bring in during my first revision, several sizes ranging from 400 - 485cc to see what fit best. He went with the 485s. Which I am told are too large for my frame. So you can see after my second surgery using the largest implant option, my left is so much bigger than my right. My nipple height was and still is uneven. My right nipple is too low and needs to be lifted.

So that brings me to this review, my third surgery. To correct what looked like bottoming out of my left (based on the size difference and nipple height), he agreed to do another capsulorrhaphy on my left. I am almost 3 months post. I think they are too big (my left one at least) causing the raised skin in the cleavage area and what looks like could be a mild form of symnastia. I still have significant rippling in my left cleavage area. I don't have that nice flat space like I had before. This is also due to the suture he used to "tack up" basically my left breast. The left one is too large. Basically you can see how there was a lot of breast at the bottom of my left and he tacked it up and now it's just all at the top and I look lop-sided. I've tried using a strap to get it to drop down, but I think it's as good as it's gonna get. It's too medial regardless of whether it's hanging low or tacked up high. I have more side boob on the right than the left, and the left is too large.... I feel I need a whole new pocket on my left. I have asymmetry that can only be fixed with a 4th surgery. And my right one, the nipple is too low.

I don't know what else I can say really. I just wanted to do a separate review for my 3rd surgery as I am 2 years post from my 1st surgery, 1 year post from my 2nd surgery and 3 month post from my 3rd surgery. As 2017 comes to an end, so does my quest for having a nice result. The only way I would even consider a 4th procedure would be if I can ever afford to get out to San Diego to let Dr. Pousti fix them. If you look at his revisions especially capsulorrhaphies and symnastia repair, he does excellent work. I think the only way I can get that nice flat space between my breasts without loose skin is if I have him fix this. I just can't afford to do that though.

If you're in search of a surgeon to do a lift with implants or a revision that requires reconstruction basically, go to Miami. There are some really good surgeons in Miami. I love Dr. Krau's work. It's less expensive in Miami but you have to factor in travel expenses so you're basically paying the same, but you'll get a better result.

Not to take anything away from any of the other surgeons in Tampa, but there just aren't enough reviews WITH PHOTOS in the Tampa area so you really have not choice but to go by word of mouth like I did... and you can see where that got me.

I wish you all the best with your research. Be careful. You can't go by the star ratings. There are two women that come to mind that used Dr. Diaco and gave him 5 starts but after reading other posts they left on other ladies' reviews or new reviews they did, they had another surgeon do their revisions and wished they'd used that surgeon instead of Diaco. (look up bbuzzell - she had Dr. Eberbach do her revision and she posted that she wished she would have used him for her first surgery. and then look up zoesophia69 - she gave Dr. Diaco 5 starts also and then posted a glowing review for Dr. Castellano too and talked about how she wasn't happy with her previous surgeon.). It's so disheartening and misleading when women give undeserving 5 star reviews to surgeons that they later feel didn't deserve it. Not many women have posted photos or have posted reviews and updates of their entire journey so you don't have much to go on. Oh, and another gal, Big Boobs Wanted, she gave him 5 stars also but she's not happy either. We actually kept in touch via phone after our surgeries and she's learned to live with hers but wasn't happy. My point is that the star reviews are misleading and you have to read ALL of the posts the ladies make on others reviews too in order to get the full picture. And only go with a surgeon who has reviews with pics.

I really hope that man reviews have helped others. I wish you all the best! Happy 2018!! xo!

Just updating my review. No changes really. I still sleep in my thong bra. I feel it’s helped to keep my left from merging any further toward my midline. Hasn’t really helped with the weird loose sort of webbed skin in my cleavage area though. It’s also still riding high so I have more noticeable upper pole on the left. I don’t think it’s CC though. I need the pocket opened laterally a little to give the implant somewhere to go. The suture in the cleavage area is keeping it high. At some point I’ll need a revision for that but I’ve learned to live with it.

My left is bigger than my right but I think by raising my right side a bit it won’t be as noticeable. Dr. Diaco knows I’m upset about the asymmetry of the nipple height and said he has some non-invasive procedure that might help with that. He wanted to wait six months but I really don’t want to wait any longer so I’m going to call tommorow. I don’t think the left nipple will drop any further, and to be honest, I don’t want it to. I want my right one higher. I think it looks like my right is saggy. I don’t want low hanging nipples. Kind of defeats the purpose of getting a lift. You can see In my pic how much better it looks with the right nipple raised.

Still have significant rippling in my left in the cleavage area and on top too but I’m learning to live with it and just hope it doesn’t get worse. I did file a report with Allergan so they are aware of the rippling with this new ‘round goes gummy’ implant. It’s my fault for agreeing to try a new style. I should have stuck with Mentor as I know that style doesn’t ripple on me.

Hope you ladies all are well and healing nicely! Or excited about you upcoming surgeries! Best of luck to you! Xo!

Hi ladies – I’m officially a little over 5 months. No additional changes. A few posts back I mentioned that my surgeon said that if my nipple didn’t even up, he would do a non-invasive procedure that might work to lift my right one a bit. I met with him today and he feels this procedure will work. It’s call SkinTyte by Sciton. He said he used it on someone else and it worked. I asked if I could see photos and he said he didn’t have any because they’ve only been using it for about 6 months.
I Googled it and can’t find anything where it works to lift a nipple/breast. I’ve seen photos of it working on the décolletage… but not on actually tightening a breast to lift a nipple so I sort of have my doubts. Someone asked the RealSelf surgeons their thoughts on using it to lift a breast. Ironically she was from Tampa! Victoria7 is her user name if you want to look at her question and the surgeons answers. I don’t know when she asked this question because this latest RealSelf format/layout no longer displays the date of the question or of the answers! So annoying! I think the SkinTyte device has been around a while though. Anyway, most if not all of the surgeons said it probably wouldn’t work, and said it’s not lasting. So I don’t know if I’m wasting my time or not. We scheduled 4 sessions about 2 weeks apart.
I’m going to do some more research and see what I can find on the procedure in general. He did assure me that there are no adverse side effects other than sometime it causes some minor blistering. But nothing that would worsen my nipple height or do any harm to my implants. He will be focusing on the right one that is lower.
Personally I think the right one needs a breast lift again. It actually looks a little lower and saggy than before my revision converting my lift to a full anchor.
No changes to the rippling in my cleavage area. I know it won’t get better but at least it’s not worse. And I still have the weird webbed skin in my cleavage. I hate that so much. Maybe this skin tightening procedure can tighten that up. I didn’t ask him but will when I go back.
I don’t think I mentioned to you guys that a few weeks ago I did an email consult with photos with a local surgeon that more or less said to leave them alone. That it is difficult to fix another surgeons work, especially after THREE surgeries with the surgeon. He said leave well enough alone.
I also did an email consult with photo with Dr. Krau again. He said, and I quote, “the fold in my cleavage area can’t be fixed with a revision.” I cried for two days… and then looked at his work on others who had it worse and he fixed theirs. I emailed him back and he said closer to the one year mark to come to Miami so he can see it in person.
I also plan on doing a virtual consult with Dr. Pousti. We exchanged email several months ago and I know he wants me to be further along before he assess the situation. I’ll wait until I’m 8 or 9 months and then discuss with him. I KNOW he can fix it because I’ve watched videos of his repair work for symmastia and capsulorrhaphies and you absolutely cannot see the suture from the cleavage area like you can mine…. It’s perfectly flat in the middle of the cleavage area like it is supposed to be. Most of the women that had symmastia repair paid $10,000 plus though so I’ll have to really think long and hard whether I want to spend another $10,000 on my boobs since I’ve already spent $15,000. I’m sure Dr. Krau is going to charge at least $8,000 though, so what’s another $2,000 plus travel to know it’ll be done correctly….
Anyway, so there you have it. I’m going to start a new review for the Skin Tyte procedure closer to my first appointment, March 23rd. If it works, that will be so exciting not only for me, but for other ladies that have the same issue. The only thing is, I don’t know if it’s a lasting fix.
Take care all!