BREAST IMPLANT SIZING 101
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Sandy: Yes, send the pic to me!
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Whippetmom,
Thanks! Can you PM me your email?
Sandy
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Lilah - I think he is too. He is a good man.
So I have an exchange surgery date! Its June 13th! After all that has happened, my PS's military move was postponed until August....so looks like by the time he leaves, I should be well on my way to healing!!! Yeah!
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Tanya: I notice that you are triple negative-we have a great couple of TN threads if you are interested. Calling all TN's is one and the other is TN Ten Pounds Take-Off. I was terrified of Chemo and though the first one was rough (due mostly to horrible constipation and forgetting to take my anti-nausea drugs) the last 5 were like getting the flu for a few days every three weeks. You are young, they caught it early and TN's do really well with chemo. You will find so much help and support here and on the other threads I mentioned. Hugs!
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Sue -- wahoooo!!!!!! That is SOON!
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Congratulations Sue!!!!
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Thanks ladies!!! I finally feel like Im getting somewhere!
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annettek - that was quite perfect at explaining so much of what I feel. Thank you for putting it down in words. My exchange was just a few days after yours and I feel like I am going through alot of those feelings about now...5 minutes of not fixating on my boobs is kind of a "big deal" around this house!!! ;-) ...I'm starting to return to "normal" conversation" ...although I caught myself the other day with a friend who asked how everything was going and I started in on "well, I've got a little divot up here..." and then I stopped myself and re-framed my thinking, I look pretty damn good and need to put away the magnifying glass sometimes! ...thanks again Annette, very well said!!!
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Ditto, annetteK: that was a great write-up about our boob/foob obsession post-BC! I'm thankful I have these reconstruction issues to focus on or my mind would be going THERE. (The longer I am occupied in the moment by other things, the more distance I can put between me and BC and the less strong the pull on "going there" becomes.)
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aw, hillck- we are just a bunch of brazen huzzies now! flashing our boobs all over the place:)))))
SUEBEEC YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH...so darn happy for you-i am smiling ear to ear-how wonderful is that? To care so much about someone you have never met in person....I love it!
nolo and tanya- you're in great hands with whippet mom...:))
k..i gotta go get some work done...ugh
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Awww, Annette!!! I can feel the love!!! I can hardly believe how much love and support I have gotten from my friends on this site. Its truely remarkable!!!! Thanks, my friend!!
Cindy - um yeah, about that. I was the most modest person before too. I lived in Japan and couldnt BEAR the thought of going to an onsen (public bath) with my Japanese friends even after all of their pleading and explaining that its what people do together and it was normal. Um, nope. So I hear ya....today I was standing in my PS's office in my bra and jeans thinking "oh dear, I have never stood in front of any man besides my husband like this EVER!!!" Such a bizarre thing!!
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Annettek, Thank you for summing it up. This has been the only time I have really let DH look at boobs on tv, magazines.. trying to figure out what I might look like. I had become foob obsessed, which had never happened before bc. I think DH got tired of being asked to look for so many months. I was mourning losing my TE's so I decided not to take a photo as I must move forward and not look back on what I knew I could not keep. I do have more projection than I expected and am quite happy so far, I look good in a sports bra. PS did move them up, told DH if I wanted them up anymore I would have to push them up in a bra-they look fine. I am looking forward to the day I can really start exercising again, pain under arms. SueBee congrats on your surgery date, I am excited for you! Hillick, hope you did ok with injection and glad you got to show them off. Cameron, so glad to have you back with us, are you ok with the projection?
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Annettk- First, thank you for sharing- Loved the personal, funny Playboy story.....and you & your DH could pick out the worst boobs from any Playboy & I'll happily take them....but I too want the nipples!
Before MX, when I first met with my PS I brought pics of natural unaugmented breasts- teardrop, with slope & ptosis to show him what I liked. So I was set on getting the teardrop gummies. Then I read on here too many ladies unhappy with their gummies.....even unhappy enough to have them changed out. Then I met a gummie girl in person & she told me all the bad things about them- actually had nothing good to say about them & wishes she got something else.
A little back story....I had a really hard, painful MX where the IV pain meds (morphine) did not work at all....after screaming & crying for over 24 hours...family & friends, even nurses trying to
get BS(over the phone) that night to give me something different for the pain....when he finally showed up in person, the next afternoon & with me still screaming & crying & begging for him to
"help me" switched me to dilaudid and it was instant relief. I developed a hematoma & had to have
that surgically, as well as more lymph nodes removed(by a different doctor!) with my TE's put in
then. Difficult, painful recovery...LE...PT. Anyway, sorry to get off topic, but I felt you should know
why I really don't want to get a revision.
You are so right on about wanting one good thing out of this nightmare...better breasts.
Before my MX I was so positive- focusing on the only positive I could.....trading in my old, breastfeeding, big saggy, cancer ridden boobs for what I thought would be better ones.0 -
Tara40yrs - There is a gummy thread. Go check it out and read the stories there. It's good to informed on the good and the bad. Praying you make the decision that is best for you. You've had a long haul. The morphine not working - what a complete nightmare!!!!!! So, so sorry that happened to you! I think the gummy thread is called "All About Gummies" but I'm not sure .... Lilah and the others will know. Check it out! Blessings to you! xo
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Carrol2- I guess we have to face our reconstructed boobs will never be playboy.....but can't we get close?.....at least with bras, bathing suits, clothes on?!!
I too am sooo afraid I will not be happy with the final outcome. I have even delayed my exchange due to this fear. And these TE's are uncomfortable at all times & sometimes painful. But I so want to get the exchange right the first time....but I get so confused...my PS says I can have my exchange 6 weeks after final fill, but then I read on here it's better to wait longer for best results...to avoid the dreaded hamburger bun, to really let the muscles stretch or they may never. As much as I so desperately want these things out...just to sleep comfortably for one night....I can hardly sleep. I too have nightmares of surgeries. And I don't think I'd go through another one for a revision. I just hate surgery, BC.... the whole nightmare. Stupid cancer.0 -
Thank you Whipplet mom! Got it and responded.
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Oh Dawne-Hope....how fitting you replied.....your name. I had a sister that died named Dawn. Thank you.
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Tara40yrs - The fear thing is really hard to turn off, isn't it? We're all terrified when we're diagnosed ... it's like we're on a '10' on the fear scale and it's hard to come off that ... and then in every step of the process ... fear bombards us. The women on here are so knowlegeable ... learn from them! Knowledge can dispel fear. Stupid cancer is right.
I waited only six weeks between my last fill and my exchange. Not matter what ... the hamburger is part of the process ... but it is only PART of the process. It doesn't have to be the final result. What you see the first few days after the exchange is not what you're going to look like 3-6 months after the exchange. Let these women guide and help you and get as informed as you can ... it will help with the fear. In this respect, knowledge is power.
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Dawne-Hope- Yes, you could definitely say I'm bombarded with fear, even paralyzed by it. I am so grateful I found this site. You are right, the women on here are knowledgeable & I've learned so much. I've been a lurker since dx in Nov.2010.
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Funny Cameron, Thats what my PS said about fills & sizing....only I started liking the one more!
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Dawn-Hope yes absolutely right huge amount of fear. I had my bmx with no reconstruction back in August and was so afraid when i woke up I could barely move. I did not want to feel pain and did not want to look at what was done to me. It was of course not as painful and not as bad looking as I imagined. 7 months later I had the TEs placed and was in a much better place emotionally. But the pain was actually worse that time and I got a bad cough after the surgery which made things way worse in recovery. I have now had three fills and at first my biggest fear was that i might have pain or the wound might open up. The first two went with out any pain pretty much the last one I was sore for a day or so and tight for a few days after that. So now I am nervous for the next fill again in a week. I also am worried about the hamburger look, one side is higher than the other, and the higher side does not project to the side as much. So they look a bit asymmetrical. I hope my PS can fix that in the end. I was calling him Michaelangelo but now I feel like he is more Picasso. I am going to ask him about all this next week perhaps he can put my fears to rest.0
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My fills got slightly worse each time. I was able to take 80 each time but I think at the 4th one I was starting to feel pain that night....then for longer stretches. Yesterday I got 50 and it was not bad at all but MAN was I afraid to sneeze yesterday.. Talk about supressing!!!! I 1/2 sneezed about 5 times before I finally let it rip. LOL...the things we go through!
But anyway, the pain of the TE is definitely managable. Especially knowing there is a finish line in sight.
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Tara -- yes the thread about gummies is called All About Gummies. A lot of us are very happy with them. But I can understand your not wanting to take the chance. If you are interested check out that thread. I do think many PS's achieve Ptosis with regular silicone, which is definitely softer/squishier than the gummy.
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Carrol- I too have one side higher then the other-with a weird shape to it due to the huge hematoma that formed after MX.... The bottom left outside never really rounded out- even overfilled at 840cc's. It has more upper pole projection then lower....My PS assured me it can be fixed at exchange.
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Thanks Lilah- I've read that thread....I think that's where I first found out they were not the same viscosity/squishiness as the regular round I felt in my PS office. And that they can't be shaped into a push up bra. Pretty much everything I learned about them is from this site. My PS never told me any of this plain talk/living with them stuff. He's great, but just more focused on the final look I want to achieve. My PS isn't going to just chat about the different implants....I have to know the right questions to ask(the more the better) & I get them all from bc.org. discussion boards. I would read this, the gummie, chemo, & many other threads with a notepad, writing questions to go armed with to all my different docs.
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Thanks Tara and Cindy it's good to hear there is hope for some of these issues.
Tina I know i am afraid to tell him that he s being a little too abstract for me right now lol.
I have very good ptsosis though i am most concerned about the upper pole now.
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Cindy- I'm not a member on the other private picture forum....but I really want to see pictures before I decide on an implant for exchange. Is there a picture thread on this site? What exact implant did you get? So glad to hear your happy with slope, ptosis & no hamburger bun just 9 days post exchange!
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Tara: I would be more then happy to get you to the picture forum. Just PM myself, Lilah, Whippetmom, Estepp or Firni.
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