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    Default Breast Implants 101

    I have noticed that a lot of questions come up on this forum about breast implants, surgery and what to expect afterwards.

    It took me 2.5 years to choose a doctor and find information. I even looked up the patent on silicone implants. I hope everything I am writing down makes sense. I tried to make it as easy to read and understand.

    • If you want to loose weight, loose it now. Have your skin stretched before the implant not afterwards. This helps prevent ripples and sagging later on.

    • If you work out, especially the upper body, stop at least a month in advance to give your muscles a break and so they stop building up. A relaxed muscle helps a lot in healing and in pain.

    • Stop taking advils and other blood thinners (if you can medically) about a month before surgery. Watch out for foods that thin blood at least a week or two before surgery and after. This ensures proper blood clotting. Getting a blood exam is also good even if your doctor doesn’t recommend it. This tells a lot about how your immune and platelets are doing which can affect your heal time.

    • Check your boobies and study them. Do they look symmetrical or not? Breast implants will just enlarge what you have naturally.

    • Look at past scars on your body, how do they heal? This will most likely tell you how your scars will be.

    • Do you take a while to get over sicknesses or if you get cut does it take a while to heal? If yes, typically you will have more down time after surgery.

    • Have you had surgery before? If yes, you will be ready for going under and healing afterwards. If not, there will be more stress on the mind and body for a new experience.

    • Take time finding your doctor. Look online and find out about everything about him/her. Cosmetassure is a good thing to look into. It is plastic surgery insurance that comes with your procedure. Everything is paid for if you have a complication within a month after your operation. Capsular contracture isn’t in this plan but it typically doesn’t develop for months. If your doctor doesn’t have it, ask and get in writing what is paid for or not if a complication does occur.

    • Talk to them about their entire procedure and look at all of their past pictures.

    • Check the hospital rating before the operation.

    • Find out what your doctor studied before they became a plastic surgeon. A dentist can become a plastic surgeon in 2 years. Typically one that went for reconstructive is the best. Also, a doctor that is a resident hospital plastic surgeon means their track record is clean.

    • Don’t go for the most affordable, go with the best doctor. This is your body!

    • If you can, save about 2 to 3 months of expenses. You never know what could happen and if you go to work, you will be getting tired quicker than normal. You might not be able to work as much.

    • Prepare a lot of easy to eat meals that won’t upset your tummy and that are easy to eat. Eating and lifting food to your mouth is hard at first. Straws are great for not lifting drinks.

    • Get your meds ready before your operation.

    • If it is your budget, stay in the hospital for a few days. This can help for the wearing off of anesthesia and the initial pain of operation and healing. The drive home after getting cut up is brutal. It is double brutal if it is cold out because you shiver. Shivering hurts like hell and you never realize how much your upper body clenches up until you are cut up.

    • Have someone around to wait on you for about a week or two or a month (if you are lucky). They will be there to wipe your butt and put on socks and lift things. Your arms will be out of commission for a few.

    • Pillows, pillows, pillows. Figure out how you will be propped up before the operation and have it set up for when you get home. Your helper will not know exactly what will make you completely comfy. If you have a recliner, you are in luck!

    • Figuring out a size is up to individuals. Sew up rice sacks with the proper amount of cc’s to get an idea of what you will look like. Remember, when you do this, breast size might seem bigger because the rice sack is not inside your body. To get the same size, you might go a little bigger when getting your real implant. Boob greed is real. Sometimes if you are small breasted naturally, you will forget you even have implants and think they are still small. In certain lights, you sometimes will only see your natural boob. Its weird!

    • Be prepared for pain. The length of time of pain depends on the type of implant and the individual. Typically, if you have a smaller athletic frame, bigger implants that are silicone, you will have for some reason a longer healing time.

    • Medial portions of your pectoral muscle should not be cut.

    • Incision placement is up to you and your doctor. However, if you do have any problems, the crease incision is the best for getting cut twice. It also helps the doctor with placement. Again, this is up to the individual and doctor.

    • Be prepared for a slight depression after surgery. It is a complete emotional time and it doubles when there is a complication. Getting used to your new body is a shock to the system. Thoughts like “Omg I am a monster. What did I do?” are extremely typical. If you start to have any symptoms that last longer than a couple months, you might have post-traumatic stress and need to go on anti-depressants for a bit. Again, not everyone gets this but it can happen after a major surgery.

    • Watch out for getting addicted to pain pills.

    • Nighttime sleeping and waking up is painful.

    • Once the pain leaves, nerve pain sets in. Nerve pain is bizarre feeling. Phantom pain can also come along which is even weirder.

    • Don’t worry about getting back into routine as quick as possible or weight issues. Focus on healing.

    • Anica Montana and Bromelain are supplements that help bruises heal. However, they do thin the blood. Vitamin K helps blood clot but in some it can thicken the blood too much. Ask your doctor before taking any. Vitamin E if taken should be once you are completely healed. This is known to thin blood.

    • Massaging should only be done when and how the doctor tells you to. Mine told me not to until I was fully healed. His thoughts were why would anyone massage a wound that isn’t healed. I have silicone unders.

    • Healing might take a long time, but remember, the pain eventually goes away. Dropping fully happens within a year. Upper body movement then becomes natural again.

    • Working out and muscle building should be at a minimum for chest muscles until your boobs drop. This helps keep boob shape more symmetrical.

    • Pole work should not be done for at least 7 months after operation. The longer you wait the better. Stage work should be left to a minimum for about 3 months.

    • Scar gels are a hard one to figure out. Topical Vitamin E is good and cheap but can lead to rashes in many. Mederma is annoying and gets itchy. I found silicone gels were the best. Chaffing occurs sometimes due to the weigh of the new additions and movement. Aveno stress relief was a miracle!

    • Don’t worry about showering. Wait for a week and then do a sponge bath. Bacteria lives in warm water and can infect your incision.

    • Outfits for work will feel weird and you will go though many tops because they will keep on feeling good or bad.

    • I spent a lot of money on bras. The best I found were Maiden Forms with no under-wire. Sports bras from walmart saved me so much money and are so comfy! Danskins are fabulous.

    • Under-wire bras should be worn only when the doctor tells you. If worn too early, it can mess up your pocket.

    • Do not lift anything above 10 pounds for the first month. Do not lift anything above 10 pounds above your head for the first month.

    • Try not to hyper extend your chest muscles like reaching for things. Watch out for crossing over your chest on opposite sides. These can re-open cut muscles if not completely healed.

    • Let comfort dictate what you do. My doctor told me that. I never fully understood what he meant until I looked back. When you are sick, or full your head tells you. When you are healing your head will tell you. If you have any doubt with doing something that you think might hurt, don’t do it.

    • Remember, this is a major surgery and it is painful. If your body says rest, rest. It will keep you from damaging the healing process.

    I think I wrote everything. If I forgot something I will update the thread. I have silicone gels, under the muscle. I took a while to heal and had a late hematoma.

    Happy boobies and once healed, you will be impressed and happy! Promise

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    Thank you. I'm currently in the information gathering process and this is really helpful.

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    Thanks! Ive been thinking about it... although it would be far off for me. subscribing to this thread so i can find it later...
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    Default Re: Breast Implants 101

    Quote Originally Posted by MelancholyChloe View Post
    • Have someone around to wait on you for about a week or two or a month (if you are lucky). They will be there to wipe your butt and put on socks and lift things. Your arms will be out of commission for a few.
    I am considering getting implants, saline overs. My mother is completely unsupportive, she thinks I will look like a freak and be stuck in this job forever (she does not realize that I like this line of work). That said I am single and I don't know a single soul that will wait on me.

    I thought I would need someone to assist me with meals, taking meds etc, but I never thought it would get as personal as wiping my ass.

    Do you think I would be better off hiring a PSW (personal support worker)? The only other option for me is to go it alone.



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    ^^Jenni. I have saline overs and you only need help on the first day because you will be really effed up on the drugs. If you have a friend who can help you out for a day or two you will be fine.

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    ^^NOOOO, she may be fine, but she may need help for a week. I couldn't do ANYTHING for at least 5 days after surgery. Everyone has different experience and I know girls who didn't need any or little help after surgery, and girls who were in my situation. I couldn't feed myself, wipe myself, I absolutely could not move my arms. The use of my arms was very limited the first week after surgery. You should plan to have help for at least the first week, if you don't need them for the entire week, then you can send them home. There are surgeons who advertise "same day recovery" but I'm not sure of what all that entails. Luckily I had my hubby to take care of me.

    I would also make sure you have lots of ice packs around. I got the gel filled ones from rite aid and they absolutely saved me. Get at least 6 so you can rotate them in the freezer if you need to. I would get 2 out and put them on each breast. Be sure to have lots of convience food items around, and tie up all loose ends before surgery. Pay bills, stock your pantry, whatever. Don't forget to really clean the house too !
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    I would also make the point that implants placed over the muscle typically involves far less tissue 'cutting' than under the muscle. As a result, over the muscle implant recovery is typically faster, typically involves less pain immediately after surgery, and also typically involves FAR less pain a week or two after surgery.

    While I'm probably not 'typical' ( other dancers joke that I have 'velcro' incisions because I have had so many different sets of implants ), with over the muscle implants I was actually better off simply taking a couple of Tylenol 3's ( with codeine ) immediately after surgery, and then switching to regular tylenols the day after surgery. While the second and third day pain was definitely an issue taking plain tylenol, avoiding heavy duty pain medications allowed me to be up and around the day after surgery ( with some help in the shower etc. ), fending for myself the second day after surgery, and driving / cooking / doing dishes etc. the third day after surgery.

    In other words, a lot of the post surgery issues for over the muscle implant patients actually stem from the side effects of heavy duty pain killers that most doctors will attempt to prescribe, rather than from the surgery itself !!! With under the muscle implants, the surgery itself creates most of the post surgery issues re pain, thus the heavy duty pain killers ( and the associated side effects ) are pretty much a necessity.

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    ^^I took a few tylenol 3s in the mornings because morning boob feels crazy! For some silly reason I didn't think that yours were overs, Melonie. Of course they are!

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    ^^^ I actually had one set of implants placed under the muscle. They looked fantastic when I was standing still, but took on a distorted shape whenever I did pole work. I also 'blew out' an under the muscle saline implant ... probably because of the 'vise grip' effect of the muscle over the top severely compressing the implant when I was doing pole work. Ever since, I have stuck with over the muscle placement. And of course I also found out how to deal with the most likely 'drawback' of over the muscle implants i.e. visible implant bag ripples ... just have the doctor overfill those suckers until every single bag wrinkle is driven out !!! This resulted in a round, firm, Pam Anderson-esque look but, hey, it works for Pam LOL !!!

    PS I hear you about 'morning boob' !!! My trick to getting beyond it without taking pain meds was to get my ass in a nice hot shower ASAP after getting out of bed ... the hot water relaxes everything and the pain diminishes as a result.

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    no shower for a week? thats crazy.

    I heard that over the muscle is an easier recovery... I decided to go with under the muscle tho. By day 2 I didn't really need the pain meds anymore. it was mostly tightness and soreness... it wasn't unbearable pain.
    what I really really hated tho was the bloated feeling. ughh... I felt like a cow for the first 3 days

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    couldn't even flush a toilet for three days, couldn't surf for six weeks..but now they feel like part of me (well haha they are)..i went with saline unders, had a lot of pain and stiffness for three weeks but don't regret a thing, was worth every penny

    strangely enough it was much more painful to get my wisdom teeth yanked a few months later.

    great advice/tips given

    there's also a forum called make me heal, i found the women to be very supportive

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    Hot4a, you brought up a good point getting everything squared away. My thing was for my laundry to be done and having lots of meals prepared. Pudding and Jello were favorites

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    Jenni... maybe you can stay in the hospital for a few day or five since you are thinking about overs and then stay with your mom for a few days afterwards. A hospital stay is anywhere from $150 and up per night. It might cost some but might be cheaper than hiring.

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