Tubular / Tuberous breast augmentation and lift with Motiva Ergonomix 360cc and fat transfer

Hi ladies!

I can't believe it has been over a year already. I wanted to give you all a quick boob update. I'm also going to attach some pictures with and without clothes from different times within the last 9 months and a video with a squish test.

OH NO - BOOB ACCIDENT
Three months after my surgery I went traveling in Central America. My surgeon said that I could do everything I did before. So I jumped off a 4 meter high waterfall and noticed that my boob felt a bit different after. Turns out that a permanent stitch on the inside that held my nipple in place came loose. I now had one small and one big nipple. And one thread that was poking the inside of my boob every now and then. After my trip, I went back to my surgeon to see what he could do to fix it. He suggested waiting at least 1 year post-op to see if the stitch on the other boob would come loose as well. It didn’t (logically .. because it wasn’t supposed to in the first place). So I had a small revision surgery this December (2020). My surgeon wanted to make the big nipple smaller again but I actually preferred the big nipple over the small nipple and therefore he removed the stitch on the small nipple. It was only a small procedure under local anaesthesia and I just have a little bruising around the nipple now. He says that it'll take some time for the nipple to expand to the same size as the other one is now and he also said that the boob will drop a bit more (which would be great because the other boob is already quite a bit lower). As a little bonus, he also removed the the belly button piercing hole I've had since I was 16.

LOOKS
I’m still very happy and impressed with how much better my boobs are now compared to how they were before. They look very natural and are quite soft. I have an amazing lower pole now considering I had none at all before. That said, my boobs have dropped quite a lot. I think it’s because I stopped wearing the surgical bra after 4 months and rarely ever wear bras now. My right boob is still a bit bigger than the other and also lower. My surgeon said that I wouldn’t notice afterwards, but I do. I still wish that I would have gone for a slightly bigger (wider base) implant so that my boobs would be closer together. My surgeon suggested 380cc but I went for 360cc because I was terrified of my boobs being too big. I also have very weak connective tissue and started developing stretch marks on my lower pole about 4 months after the surgery. I instantly started using Remescar Stretch Marks Cream and Bi-Oil which was amazing and made the stretch marks disappear again within a couple months. My scars have faded a lot but they are still quite visible and both scars are not really in the breast fold as you can see on the pictures - probably because my boobs dropped quite a lot. When laying on my back or side, my boobs do fall to the sides quite a bit just like natural breasts.

COMFORT
I can sleep comfortably on my side and even somewhat on my stomach again, although I try to avoid sleeping on my stomach to not impact the shape of my boobs. Laying on my stomach for a massage for example is quite uncomfortable. I wish all massage places had little holes for the boobs. I hardly ever wear bras now, especially no bras with wires, but I often wear little crop tops underneath sweaters or t-shirts to give the boobs some support. My lower pole is still slightly numb but my nipples work again. They are just as sensitive as they were before if not more.

My recommendation for you:
- Trust your surgeon with regards to the implant size.
- If your nipples will be adjusted, make sure to communicate what size nipples you want.
- Talk about what size the scars will be.
- Wear the surgical bra longer than advised to avoid too much dropping.
- Use a stretch mark and scar cream as soon as the scars are healed, especially if you tend to get stretch marks.
- Don't wear bras with wires. (I love Intimissimi bras.)
- Oh and don’t jump off a waterfall 3 months post op. haha

If you have any other questions, please feel free to comment. I'm terrible at regular updates but I'm happy to help with comments as much as I can!

Hi Ladies!

Sorry that I haven’t posted in so long. I’m 5 weeks post op now. It wasn’t an easy journey but there has not been a time when I have regretted my decision. So let me try and summarize my experiences over the past month.

THE PAIN
The first week I was extremely swollen and bruised. The implants were sitting very high and I had the feeling that my chest was gonna explode because it felt so tight. The pain was manageable with pain killers. It was mostly a stinging and burning pain that I still sometimes get now. I stopped taking the Oxy 5 days post op and was painkiller free after 9 days. I felt the worst pain under my right boob, especially when standing up. The doctor said it was related to the layer protecting the ribs. It went away after about 2 weeks. I was mostly just resting for the first week and then started moving around slowly within the house or going for short walks. It was quite exhausting in the beginning and my chest felt very heavy but it of course got better with time. The bruises also started to fade and now I’m almost pain free. It just hurts in the morning sometimes if I slept on my side or depending on which bra I wear. Even if you’re mostly pain free, my doctor recommended not lifting my arms over my head as that pushes the implant up. My lower boob was very numb in the beginning and is still numb now partly. I had also lost sensation in my nipples in the beginning and they wouldn’t go hard anymore but it’s slowly coming back now.

The LOOKS
I do like the shape of my boobs a lot. It’s already 10000 times better than it used to be. The left one is fuller on the top part, but maybe this is because the right implant sits a bit lower or maybe because the fat transfer didn’t hold as well in the right boob as it did in the left. I know I’m still very early in my recovery, so I’m sure the shape will still change a bit. I think the breast band has really helped with pushing the implants down. I’ve been wearing the breast band day and night for 4 weeks and now I’m mostly just wearing it at night. I’m not sure if my breasts have dropped already or not. The bruising has finally gone down, there is just a small party next to my nipple which seems to be a bit stubborn. One other thing that is bothering me a bit is that there are two little folds from sowing my nipple back on (see pictures). I hope those will also disappear with time. I used to have very puffy, big nipples which my doctor corrected, but now I sometimes still see them being a little puffy which I hoped wouldn’t be the case. It looks fine when they’re hard but not if they’re soft. I’ll def ask my surgeon about that next time. My stretch marks are also way less visible now than they used to be. One thing that I never thought would happen is for me to develop boob greed. Apparently it is real after all. I sometimes wish I would have gone for a slightly bigger size (so that there is less space between my boobs) or the full projection, but I’m still happy as it is now.

THE SCARS
I have a scar in the breast fold and a scar around the nipple. My scar on the right boob is a lot longer than the one on the left. I’m not sure why yet as I haven’t seen my surgeon since the surgery. He was sick at my first check up so I saw someone else. Will ask him at my next checkup in 2 weeks. The scars are healing nicely though. I had plasters on the scars for 2 weeks (I could easily shower with them, they didn’t come off). I was given a scar treatment cream at my first check up and have been using it twice daily since then. One of my scars from the fat transfer on my leg got a little infected. The doctor recommended cleaning it with warm water multiple times a day and leaving it open to dry out. I didn’t have stitches on the outside, so I didn’t need to have them pulled, but one thread, also on my thigh, came through the skin and was sticking out. The doctor said to try and pull it out gently, but it wouldn’t come out, so they recommended just waiting till I’m able to easily pull it out. It took 2 weeks for that to happen.

SLEEPING
I was really worried about not being able to sleep because I usually sleep on my stomach. I was using a big U-shaped pregnancy pillow and slept on my back for the first 2 weeks which worked surprisingly well (probably also thanks to the pain meds). Once I started feeling better, I tried sleeping on the side, which worked alright, but I am now struggling a bit with insomnia as I can’t get comfortable.

FASHION
I’ve been doing a lot of shopping the last few weeks because I feel like the clothes I used to wear no longer suit my body type. I was wearing a lot of wide tops before which now just make me look big. Now, I started wearing tighter tops, especially V-necks. I’ve also bought some bralettes without wires, as my surgery bra was cut quite high and had very big straps. I’m an 80C now, exactly what I wanted to be. There are some instructions online how to measure your new bra size in case you don’t want to wait till you can go bra shopping.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you would like to know anything else. Happy to share what I know. Good luck to all of you!

~ Kay x

Hi Ladies!

Yesterday was THE day!

First of all, lucky me got a bit sick in the week leading up to the surgery. I had an elevated temperature and a cough. This is something that never really occurred to me as a risk. I read everywhere online that surgeons won’t perform elective surgery if you’re sick. I really didn’t want the surgery to be moved as I had everything planned perfectly. Time of work. My mom taking time off and coming to take care of me. But I also didn’t want to take any risks. So I rested as much as possible, slept and drank a lot and took some vitamins (make sure you know what vitamins you can and cannot take before surgery e.g. no fish oils, garlic or vitamin E). In the end, I told my surgeon and anesthesiologists and after taking my temperature and listening to my lungs they decided it was safe to go ahead with the surgery. So my recommendation is: stay away from people as much as you can within the last two weeks before surgery - especially if it is flu season. And make sure you have a strong immune system. Vitamins might help with that. You definitely don’t want to cough after surgery. It hurts like hell. Thankfully, my cough is not that bad.

Quick overview of what happened on the day of surgery: I arrived at the hospital at 10, changed into the sexy gown and slip, they took my vitals and prepped me for the OR. Then I was taken up to the pre-OP room at 11:30 where I talked to the anesthesiologists and my surgeon who drew on me (where to place the implants, where the new breast will bw, where to extract and inject fat, etc.) and we talked about the surgery in general again. At noon, I was put in the operating room. They tied my arms to the stretcher I was laying on (50 shades of grey style) and gave me the anesthesia. 3..2..1 and I was gone. Next thing I know I’m in the wake up room. People are talking to me, asking me how I’m feeling. I’m confused and dizzy. I look down on me. I have boobs now. Yay. No pain yet. Just a tight feeling in the chest. The surgery took 3 1/2 hours - a bit longer than expected.

They did a tubular breast correction with 360cc Motiva Ergonomix implants, a circumareolar lift and a fat transfer from the thighs to the boobs, 110cc each side. I’m all bruised and swollen now (as you can see in the pictures). Even the nurses were worried enough to call my surgeon again to check on me but he says it’s normal and it’ll just take some time. I had stretch marks before the surgery and you can clearly see them now on my bruised boobs. Hopefully they’ll be less noticeable once the color is back to normal. I like the shape so far but I think I may have a bit of a memory line already where the old breast fold was. That’ll hopefully go away with time with the help of the breast band. I had one overnight stay at the hospital, as I had drains to prevent fluid from building up in the wound. One thing that I didn’t read about anywhere was the gas that builds up in your stomach after anesthesia. I had to fart all night haha and usually I hardly ever fart. Sorry for the detail, but I wish someone had told me before my surgery. I had some issues with dizziness every time I got up but you just have to keep trying slowly to get up and walk a few steps to get everything running again. I was released the next morning and now I’m gonna continue the healing journey at home.

I got a special post surgery bra and a breast band to push the implants down. And I’m also wearing a compression suit for the legs (peeing in this thing is incredibly difficult hah). I have a super tight feeling in my chest and feel like I can’t really stand upright because it feels so constricted. Anyone else had that? The doctor this morning told me to do some shoulder rolls to loosen it up a bit. The pain is manageable with the pain killers. I got OxyCodon, Diclofenac, paracetamol, antibiotics, stomach pills to prevent acid reflux and some laxatives (as the oxy makes you constipated). Yup, I’m pretty much high the entire time.

My first check up appointment is in two weeks. But I’ll post some more pics in a week :)

~ Kay x