Topic: First Fill Today

Thanks Val for the good wishes!!  Much appreciated.

I'm sooooo happy that there are men and women with the skill to replace missing body parts.  I've been without breasts for over two years and this is really exciting!

Jelly

Thanks a bunch, Ruby...

Happy to hear your expansion went well it gives me great hope!

Jelly,

Congrats on the first fill!   Hopefully, each additional fill will go as smoothly as this one.

I had my last fill on April 15th and hope to be having my "exchange" surgery by the end of Aug. 

 I can say I have not had one single issue with my expanders...but I'm still looking forward to the exchange.   Just trying now to decide/research between saline vs. silicone.  Good luck!

Susan, Catsmeow & Swest thanks for being so kind and wishing me well.

Cats, are you more inclined to one than another?  Even though I just began this new chapter I'm thinking more of silicone than saline.  From what I understand the silicone feels and looks more real.

It's day two and no pain!  Yeah, Yahoo!!

Kar,

The fill took literally about two minutes.  This surgeon is very organized and has the process down to a science!  I'm sure you'll do just as well tomorrow.

Be aware that my bilateral mx was over 2.5 years ago,so I have had plenty of time to heal from that.  The TE surgery was on 7/17.  You've had it done in a one shot deal so to speak.  Part of your discomfort, I'm assuming, is from the mx and as each day passes it will lessen.

The PS told me that since I'm small boned (and small overall) he would put in a smaller TE. I'll probably wind up with a B implant.

Do mention to your PS about the poking in your ribs feeling, but I'm hopeful it's just the newness of the TE's.  I DO feel them in my chest and it's quite an odd feeling, to say the least!!   But they're not painful at all for which I'm grateful.

Good luck and good wishes tomorrow.  Let me know what happens.

Hugs,

Jelly

Sorry I've not replied sooner.....but...just saw my PS today and we have scheduled the exchange for September 16th!   I think I skipped out of his office I was so thrilled!   Now, I have to decide between the saline and the silicone......I am leaning towards the saline but just not 100% sure yet. 

Hope you continue to do well....it's a long road but worth the trip!

Best of luck to both of you on your exchange surgeries!

How exciting to finally have the TE's out and the implants in!

Jelly 

I'm excited. I get my first fill on Friday. It's kinda like going through puperty again only without the zits. It's good to hear from everyone about how easy and painless it was for you. I hope I'm as lucky. I have a surgeon here locally to do the fills as my PS is 500 miles away. I hope the drains come out on Friday too. I'm just a bit sick of dragging them around.

Bobbi

Oh, you ladies made me laugh.  Puberty, LOL.  So true!

Bobbi, the first fill is exciting! .  I was like a teenager going on a first date, LOL.

I'm sure you'll do just fine.  Good luck!

Jelly

Sly,

Good for you!  First fill completed!

It is terrific that there isn't any pain involved in the fills.

You're right, we can do it.

Jelly

Hi,

Are you all doing Alloderm?  Just curious.  I'm going through the traditional route, TE, saline fills, etc.

Thanks. 

Yeah--The first fill is now history and I'm growing little mounds. I am no longer pre-pubesient. Bad news--I'm still dragging the last drain around. This is on my old radiated side and it takes a while for the fluid to find somewhere unscarred to go. Now I'm shooting for Monday.

For anyone still facing this first step--painless. She stuck me with a little lidacaine just to make sure. I was a tad uncomfortable last night and took a muscle relaxer because the pecs and other muscles transplanted or otherwise fooled with were giving me a some unvoluntary contractions or spasms or somethin. The muschle relaxer worked and I slept like sleeping beauty.

Good luck to all, Bobbi

Yeah...first fill done.

My PS missed my "dead spot" by about 1 cm.....ouch did that hurt when he stuck the needle in and filled me with 50cc.  Next time I'm gonna ask him to move the needle across a bit...lol.

I had my TE replaced in July with silicone implant.  That surgery was really a piece of cake. No pain at all.  That part is  the good news!  I went kayaking 10 days later!

When I had the bandages taken off 2 weeks later, though, I cried the whole way home that day. I guess I secretly thought I would get my breast back again, and of course I didn't and that was difficult seeing that scar.  The TE press the mastectomy scar out smooth from the inside-out so that it becomes flat and barely even noticible in a few months. But when they replace it, for instance my fills came to a total of 700ccs but the silicone implant is only 435 cc's and then you are left with a scar (a new scar) all over again. That was hard to see the first time.  I also never really realized that the numbness from a mastectomy lasts a lifetime.  No nipple, no feeling,, no erogenous zone, and no natural droop - it kind of sits there like a hamburger bun, fills my bra cup well, but it most certainly is not my breast as I once knew it.  I suppose it will take years before I stop mourning that loss.  Anybody else deal with those feelings too?

OK VAL61 -  Time is getting closer for both of us!    It will be here before we know it - Finally!  Best of luck to you on the 21st.