Does anyone not love their 'girls?'

No, I don't love my reconstructed breasts except in clothes they are pretty normal looking. My scars are hyperpigmented nearly 2 years out and they do the scrunch thing when I move wrong. Next month I'll be getting mastectomy tattoos and I think it will make all the difference.

FINALLY~! Other women who are not happy with the reconstruction either. I try to explain it to my husband and other people, but they just don't get it. My husband has been exceptional throughout this whole ordeal and didn't even want me to endure another surgery to reconstruct, but I had to. For me.

I haven't gotten the implants yet due to complications with skin breaking open where it was thin, but hope to in March or April of this year. I just had several stitches placed on Tuesday where the opening was, and am hoping they heal right and hold or I'm tempted to have the expanders removed and not even bother with it anymore.

My breast size after all of this reconstruction will be AA at best, I was a full C before cancer. I think we're going to do a 200cc implant on both sides. My skin simply cannot stretch any further, and I am not up for the long flap surgery.

I wish there were pictures of women with small implants after reconstruction on this site so I could sort of get an idea of what they'll look like, becasuse all I find are pictures of women with big breasts on any other site I look at.

Thank you. I did look at all of those, and they are all pretty large chested women. Do you know of another site that has pictres of women with very small implants?

Thank you. Hopefully there will be some women like me in there. Thanks so much.

None of those pics have scars like mine.  Im not that happy with mine either.  Esp my masectomy breast-very scarred, rock hard and uncomfortable, tried tatoo twice and it has failed twice and nipple reconstruction failed.  Nothing at all like a "boob job" which is what everyone thinks it looks like.  Also have the hamburger bun front-it doesnt project like I would like it to.

Im not in love with my unilateral reconstruction either. The minute I saw it I thought, "I know they can't match and Im looking for symmetry but this thing is huge!" Plastic surgeon didn't appreciate my Whopper and a Whopper Jr. analogy but I'm sorry they look just like it! In a loose shirt they do look pretty close. I'm also still very aware of the implant's presence under my pec. I wonder if a smaller implant wouldn't feel as strange.

Made an appt with another PS in my HMO to get a more objective opinion. (Unless they just back each other up all the time). I'm not willing to do any lifting or augmentation to my natural breast. I know I have to accept some limitiations because of this.

Maxdog

I am right there with you!

I was happy at first, but then the whole animation thing is just way too much!

And I have capsular contracture my PS isn't doing anything right now so I will wait to see her in April.

I really hope we can do better!

P.S. I had FG and my body absorbed it all within three months!

Robin

Hi ladies , I had my last set of implants replaced in 2014 . due to capsular contracture . I dont have any insurance now and I have moved to another state . i have been having lots of pain in the left one and i have rippling in both sometimes i think i can feel like a plastic bag .. but i may be obsessing . anyway I dont know how to go about getting this fixed .. I had a special insurance in NY that they gave me a cancer insurance through medicaid that paid for my surgery . I am now in North Carolina and dont know how to find help here . does anyone have any idea or information . thanks

Lisamarie

thank you robin

calidancer i can feel the implants it is so gross .. anyway OI need to look into what options I have here .

thanks good luck to you . how do you know the pocket has opened up. I think mine are under the muscle

xo
lisa marie

Yeah, my breast is ok ish now, i am 5 weeks out from my 15th breast reconstruction surgery, Had uni mx with TE under muscle, was going to get DIEP. Heard about fat grafting., took out TE, too, too tight and painful. Did Brava Fat grafting 5 times with inexperienced doctor, reabsorbed most of the fat, or lost alot to 2 severe infections because radiation damage messed me up big time. Then started over with new PS , this time had TE put OVER my pectoral. Much better, not much pain , then TE /implant exchange. My new PS , nice guy, but had my TE inflated to 600cc's, only looked slightly big compared to my real right breast. He used some screwy computer simulation program, put in a 420cc moderate profile implant. Way, way too small. Knew it was too small the minute I woke up from surgery. Tried to make the best of it, had my other side lifted. Then my nipple reconstruction surgery. My implant glaringly too small. My husband didn't get it.He would say its fine, "what, are you going to a nudist colony?" It looked like I had the breasts of two different women on my chest, like say a 17 year old on the implant side, and a grown woman who had nursed children on the right. I couldn't look at it straight on in the mirror. That plus the lack of a nipple made me want to cry. So did surgery again, 5 weeks ago to get a larger implant, now 495cc high profile. Better, now it looks like my breasts when I was 25 on the implant side, closer match to my still slightly saggy lifted breast. SIGHHHHHH, SIGHHHHHH, SIGHHHHHH. ..........

Hello Dogsneverlie. I tried to find you on the Justbreastimplants site after joining. Couldn't seem to find you. Sorry to hear that you had such rads damage. So did I. I had blotchy, hyperpigmentation all over my breast. I also had broken blood vessels. Got worse again after I had another surgery in March. I had got rid of it spending a small fortune ($320) at the Dermatologist last year with Laser therapy. Planning to do that again in a couple of months. The Laser really helped, my PS really thought it improved my skin appearance a good bit.

Yeah mine scrunch once in a while too.