Exchange City

I like the idea of rub-on nipples quite a bit. Take them for a "test drive" to see how they look. :-)

2FriedEggs - Not neccessarily. Here's another site that shows silicone implants from moderate to extra high profile.

The widths do vary, but only very slightly.

http://www.natrelle.com/breast_reconstruction.aspx#/6/

These are the implants I will be getting (68HP-650 or 68HP-700) 

http://www.justbreastimplants.com/breast_implants/natrelle68hp.htm

Currently I have in 133-MV16 TEs, filled to 620ccs. That means they are 16 cm wide. The implants I get will be either 14 cm wide or 14.4 cm wide. That's a difference of only one cm on each side, which my PS says is not a big deal for two reasons: 1) the natural formation of scar tissue generally makes the pockets narrower anyway, and 2) there should be some movement of the implant. Natural breasts do not stay in a stationary position all the time.

Pretty much everything I learned about how to choose the right implant came from Whippetmom on her Breast Implant Sizing 101 thread. You've been in contact with her, right?

A lot depends on your body size, and what size TEs your PS put in.

Thanks for posting that link....very interesting, as I will be getting saline implants.

(I had to laugh when I read something on your link that said "women want side boobs".....I'm SO SICK of my TE side boobs! I just want to sleep on my side again!!! )

Getting excited, go tomorrow for my pre-op just two more weeks for my exchange

My company's STD requires a 30 day leave before the benefit kicks and I wasn't out that long for the TE exchange. I did get STD after the Lumpectomy and BMX last fall. It really helped (paid for cleaning folks, books for my Kindle, and my button up pajamas). Probably helped with all those dreaded co-pays too.

I scheduled two weeks and then end up taking three based on my doctor's recommendation. I was healing fine after the surgery and based on that part of the recovery I would have been ready to go back to work. I had an odd reaction after the TE surgery and just didn't get my pep back and was too grumpy to go to work (over the top grumpy, like my husband is lucky to be alive after he asked a question about baking potatoes one night!). The only thing we can figure out is that I had a panic attack at the hospital just before the TE exchange surgery and may have had a different reaction to the anesthesia becuase of that. I had a bad experience a long time ago at that hospital and when the nurse wasn't going to let my husband stay with me ahead of the surgery, I got very anxious. When I went back to the same place for my nipple reconstruction surgery in May, the PS office made sure they knew to let my husband stay with me and I didn't have any problems.

Lezza - my PS gave me the go ahead to swim after 2 weeks.

He told me that anything was okay  pool or beach.  I know different PS's feel differently about this.  I guess he was satisfied by how my incisions were healing.  I have already been swimming several times.

Joan:  Thanks. My PS said 6 weeks and I am not listening to her.  She is checking my incisions again today and hopefully she will give me the green light to swim next week. It wil be 4 weeks out.  I am leaving on vacaction for 4 days with my family and want to enjoy the salt and clorine.  Thank you so much and have a great week.

Hey Blessings and Rckrobin, will joining the club and boarding the train to Exchange City on Aug 30, I am so with you, this is the first time I have had boobs without having to prop them up with a million chkn cutlets. The office was suprised when I came back from "getting my boobs cut off for cancer" and looking like I had a good boob job!  Of course without the bra to make the shape right,they are squarebobs/boobs but thats my little secret. Off to Sallys to try and find adhesive for my fake nipples and get spray tan so I dont glow in the dark if I do go to the beach. We have been so busy and had so much rain that we havent been to the beach at all this summer. yep,just pizza and beer and the whole restaurant staring at us out the window while we sit at the outside table under the overhanging eves part of the bldg eating our pizza...they keep wondering why would anyone sit outside in the rain? Fiance is crazy, think his mom dropped him on his head when he was a baby...lol..

LOL! Layla, you are hilarious! I actually had a coworker come up to me just today and she said she had just heard about what I had gone thru over the summer...she said, "I just thought you had had a great boob job!" and after that I actually showed her my results...she was so impressed she wrote both of the doctors name, lol. She is an RN at our school and likes to know about great docs.



It really is funny catching people taking quick glances at my chest area to see what I look like now. Lots of coworkers I think are curious but don't really know what to say.



I can't wait for my exchange....it seems so far away. I don't know if I can wait till sept. 27, I am so tired of not sleeping well. These things hurt in my underarm area at night. I think I am going to move back to the lounge chair, it seems to help if I am a more sitting up position. Does not bother me during the day, just at night.



Sigh....the things we go through!

Rckinrobin..do you wear a bra to bed? That seems to help me.

I've been wearing the Coobie bras and they're awesome. They're one size fits all, if you can imagine that. They've worked for me throughout the expansion process and I'm hoping to keep wearing them after post-exchange which is on the 21st.

I actually really like the way my expanders look, at least when I'm wearing clothes. I think my implants are going to be wider and won't project as much. I'm worried about having flat ovals on my chest. When I told my PS that I wanted to look just like I do now, he said that would be a problem because my implants will have to be wider. I'm going to remind him again the day of surgery.

 Although I am looking forward to hugging my husband and my kids without having these hard things in between us...

Sleep - do you have saline or silicone? I have Mod. Prof. Plus in saline. They don't have quite the projection of the high profile, but they will still have to "drop and fluff". Believe it or not, I think I had some more projection after 1 1/2 years. Some of my bras I had to go up a cup size in after wearing the same ones for quite some time.

As i get closer to my exchange day on 8/21, the anxiety is starting to set in. The anticipation is the worst and the last week is forever.

19 days until exchange surgery. Not sure which I want rid of most, my TE's or my port! They both go the same day!!! 

Good luck to all having exchanges soon!