The new girls are HORRIBLY rippled!!!

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Shellies
Shellies Member Posts: 55
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

NOT COMPLAINING!!!   These are WAY better than anything I grew in puberty.... BUT... I'm thinking they are NOT underneath the muscle...  Can my plastic surgeon pop 'em under the muscle or do I have to endure the expanders again...???  (I know *normal* people who get implants get 'em popped under the muscle... can we do that?!)  This is ridiculous! 

WHAT THE HECK WAS SHE THINKING BY NOT PUTTING THEM UNDER THE MUSCLE?!?!  UGH!!!    Yell

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  • rozem
    rozem Member Posts: 1,375
    edited January 2013

    shellies

    are you sure they are not under the pec muscle?  if you have no breast tissue left due to mastectomy they only put them under the pec muscle.  you had a lat dorsi on one side...sometimes they put that under the lat muscle and not the pec muscle but generally all implants are put under the pec muscle

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  • Shellies
    Shellies Member Posts: 55
    edited January 2013

    That's what I though too, but you can literally see / feel / HEAR the bag!!!  There's no way it's under a muscle!  (I don't believe!!!)  The skin there is pretty thin anyway, several other BC sisters have said they don't believe it's under a muscle either... you can just see WAY too much of the implants...    :( 

    Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited January 2013

    Mine are under the muscle and I can feel the seams - I have very thin pec muscles (genetically).

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  • Shellies
    Shellies Member Posts: 55
    edited January 2013

    ...they look like those bean bag chairs you recline in...  (Not that large, of course... but that shape!  *Lovely*!!!)

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited January 2013

    Hmmmm, there is someone on the one step recon thread who said her implant is over the muscle too. I haven't heard of this but it doesn't sound as if you're too happy. Do you ps explain why this was done?

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited January 2013

    Shellies - what does it say in your surgical report? If you don't have a copy, you should get one.

    My saline implants are submuscular, but depending on the mood of my muscles, and the exact location where I press, I can feel the edges of the implants, and sometimes Righty feels like ziplock baggy half filled with water.

    I look o.k. standing up, in a bra, and in clothes, but if I lift my arms a certain way, it appears there might be rippling in my future.

    I took a long bath in our jacuzzi tub the other night, and it was amazing how loose my implant seemed underwater!!!

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  • markat
    markat Member Posts: 909
    edited January 2013

    Mine are under the muscle and ripple on one more than the other.

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  • Annicemd
    Annicemd Member Posts: 341
    edited January 2013

    My pecs are so small that the implant would not fit under the muscle! I have a similar issue and I am going to ask for some fat grafting to hide the rippling as it is very annoying. If I wear a push up bra the ripples are not visible, not sure if you have tried that yet

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  • Shellies
    Shellies Member Posts: 55
    edited January 2013

    My PS said I was the FIRST patient she had ever had who was turned down for fat grafting!  Yup!  Isn't that *terrific*?!  She said if I had had my exchange 1 month earlier, Obamacare wouldn't have kicked in and I would have had smooth breasts... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!  Wonder if I sent my ins company a picture of these suckers if (after puking) they'd rethink their decision...???  <facepalm>

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  • tlew
    tlew Member Posts: 128
    edited January 2013

    I had my silicone implants in for about 6 months, and noticed rippling in both breasts on the top especially noticeable when I bend forward. Looks like I have alien boobs :( Hope it doesn't get worst.

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  • Shellies
    Shellies Member Posts: 55
    edited February 2013

    My oncologist saw them today and was HORRIFIED!  SERIOUSLY!  She thought they may have leaked... (I have gummy bear ones... I thought they became hard if there was a rupture...???)

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  • Shellies
    Shellies Member Posts: 55
    edited March 2013

    Good news:  My PS is gonna fix 'em!  She's implanting a *push-up bra* that will also get my nipple in the right place instead of beneath my armpit!  (*LOVELY*!!!)

    SUPER excited!!!  YAY!!!

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