This is a long story and I’m busy, but there are so few breast implant removal reviews, and I also gained courage from reading other people’s removal reviews, so I’ll write briefly. They said my augmentation was a “successful case,” so I realized this must be the limit of breast augmentation, and I’m posting photos too.
1. At age 26, I had a medical accident during breast augmentation. Cause: a medication-compounding error by an unqualified nursing assistant, with an arbitrary overdose. The doctor was a general surgeon, not a board-certified plastic surgeon, and did not check the dose. I was taken to the ER after shock and seizures. My blood pressure went over 200. Thankfully I survived, but they said I did not recognize the friend waiting for me, sent strange texts, and according to the chart did not know the time, people, or place. My family was devastated. I had gone into surgery secretly, but my family got a call saying I was in the CPR room and came crying to the ER. I had lost my memory, so I didn’t know. The operating doctor refused detailed tests because they might disadvantage him. Before my family arrived, they asked the doctor, and he persuaded them that a brain CT was unnecessary, discharged me from the ER, and took me back to his private clinic. I nearly lived like a fool without timely tests or treatment. Most nurses with four-year degrees work at university hospitals, while private clinics often hire lower-paid nursing assistants. This is not about prejudice against jobs, but medical skill naturally differs from trained professionals. Some clinics even hire nursing-school students without nursing-assistant licenses in advance and make them perform medical acts, so checking medical staff qualifications and hospital standards is important.
2. Breast augmentation is surgery for people who already have breast tissue. Even after nearly losing my life, foolishly I had surgery one year later, and then revision surgery another year later because of texture issues. Ironically, breast augmentation is for people who have some breast tissue. In my case, any sexually experienced man would notice immediately, or at least within two times, 99% of the time, that they were fake breasts. The inframammary incision scar could not be hidden. The doctor said the surgery went well, but my ex pointed at the scar and said I must have been operated on by a quack. In bed he looked at my breasts but did not touch them, because they were hard. Still, he did not say he was against cosmetic surgery, and it did not affect marriage plans. Some men asked, “Why are your breasts hard?” or “You’ll have to remove the implants later, right?” I had felt self-conscious about having small breasts, and even after augmentation I still lived anxiously, wondering, “He must have noticed, right?” and “Should I say it first?” Hard breasts were an obvious result, but the doctor’s goal is to do even one more surgery, so they only say indirectly that having breast tissue makes it less noticeable.
3. My first job, which I got by grinding my credentials, was traded away for breast augmentation. The claim that daily life is possible after one week is a lie. They cut the pectoralis major and insert an implant, so it makes no sense. I clearly said I sometimes had to lift heavy things, but the doctor said recovery after one week was possible and did not stop me. Even one week after surgery, every movement hurt and I was not recovered, so I extended my leave by one day and was criticized by seniors. I had not said it was cosmetic surgery, only another surgery, but my workplace did not allow individual disruptions. Because of that, I was marked, and three months later I quit my first job. My job traded for breast surgery. Compared with almost being unable to work because of the medical accident before appointment, I should be grateful I worked at all, but remember this: first breast augmentation cuts the pectoralis major and strongly dissects the muscle with surgical tools to insert the implant. If you sometimes lift heavy things like me, you need at least a month. Be sure to watch a video of the surgical method.
4. The plastic surgery clinic is not at fault for my choice. Plastic surgeons are doctors, but unlike general doctors who prioritize bodily function, their department pursues aesthetics more than function. Naturally, the hospital must operate as a business, so they focus on listing advantages. The problem was my decision: even after nearly losing my life, I decided on surgery, trusted the clinic staff 100%, took one week off, and had the operation.
5. Only two advantages after breast augmentation. Before physical intimacy, I felt confident and less intimidated, and clothes fit better. I could go braless and wore bikinis two or three times. But after intimacy, 99% know they are fake breasts, so the advantage does not last. I do not like revealing clothes, and even if clothes were tight, I disliked my large breasts standing out, so I actually wore boxy clothes. I am a woman too, but when another woman wears clothes that emphasize or expose the chest, it is natural for eyes to go there. It is just true that people look.
6. Disadvantages after breast augmentation (important) 1) Musculoskeletal symptoms from difficulty sleeping on my back. Imagine putting sandbags on your chest. I tried sleeping straight because it is said to be good for the spine, but because of pressure and breathlessness I unconsciously turned sideways. Sleeping on my side for almost 15 years made my shoulders round into a hunched back and caused musculoskeletal disease. An oriental medicine doctor asked if I sleep on my side because my hunched back was severe, and said my musculoskeletal issues would improve if it straightened. I also had cervical disc symptoms: finger numbness and pain raising my arm. Plastic surgeons and neurosurgeons say there is no relation to breast augmentation, but doctors only know their own field, and my body knew better. Common sense says that sleeping on one side for decades compresses that area. The spine recovers during sleep, but mine did not recover for decades. 2) Digestive problems. Reading reviews made me realize reflux esophagitis and indigestion also seem related. With something heavy pressing from the chest, digestion could not have gone well. 3) Cold breasts 365 days a year. Especially because I had little breast tissue, I felt the implant temperature clearly. In winter it felt like having ice packs attached, so I wore fleece-lined underwear. In summer the cold implants made me less sensitive to heat, but I seemed unable to sense body temperature accurately. I did not feel hot and did not turn on the air conditioner, but eczema appeared on my legs, so I realized I could not sense temperature well. Common sense says a cold body can lower immunity and cause various diseases, so cold breasts cannot be good for health. 4) Capsule formation is a normal reaction and unavoidable. In someone like me with little breast tissue, encapsulated implants can be felt and create resistance. When touched, they felt like balls stuck to the chest floor, with strong resistance. Especially with dual-plane placement, the upper part is under muscle because the pectoralis major is cut, so the texture is okay, but the lower part sits over it, so the implant can be felt. My ex sometimes gently felt the lower breast as if observing and said he could feel something. 5) When sitting at a desk, my breasts touched the desk and skin folds formed under them, even though my body type normally does not form folds. 6) The inframammary incision was noticeable on me because I had little breast tissue, and of course clearly visible when lying down. 7) Heart-related symptoms. I saw this in reviews too: I also suddenly felt my heart beating fast. Maybe because the heart is near the cold implant, in winter it speeds up to raise body temperature. Strangely, after implant removal this symptom disappeared. 8) Calories needed to warm cold implants, leading to overeating and binge eating. That may be why I overate and binged more in winter. My chest area trembled to warm the cold implants, and instinctively I looked for food. Not because I was hungry, but because I was cold. Eating raises body temperature. After turning 40, blood tests showed prediabetes and borderline hyperlipidemia. Common sense says eating when not hungry leads to high lipids and diabetes. I am underweight, and although skinny fat exists, I think it was related to the implants. I also have no family history of hyperlipidemia or diabetes. 9) Anxiety about rupture and worsening depression. It is strange that even after more than 15 years, doctors said the implants were safe and told me not to remove them. Wear and tear of objects is common sense. I realized plastic surgeons look only at aesthetics. They seem to think becoming grandmother-like breasts after removal is worse. I felt they wanted me to keep them as long as possible, maybe to use me as an example in sales: someone who had implants for this long. As I said, sales in plastic surgery is not evil, because it is an aesthetic department. There are U.S. doctors who post photos of worn, ruptured implants and recommend not keeping them over 10 years. Those photos made me decide on removal. Search implant removal and you will find articles.
7. Breast implant removal review (important) Under the areola there is folding, I have little breast tissue and incision scars, but they are warm and soft grandmother breasts and I am more than a million percent happier! 1) A sense of freedom from removing a time bomb. It felt like nearly 20 years of heaviness disappeared. My breasts were always a worry during health exams, and now that feels solved. The joy is indescribable. Plastic surgeons say that even if implants rupture, the silicone stays clumped together and is safe, but no. It cannot be safe. It may not be removable 100%, and remaining silicone gel can cause disease. Please do not be sold into implant replacement; remove them within 10 years. The sooner you remove them, the less sagging and the better the recovery, they say. Remember, our bodies do not belong to plastic surgeons. Functional breast surgery is the specialty of breast surgery, not plastic surgery. Plastic surgery is for aesthetics. Breast-related function and examinations should be seen by a breast surgeon. Ultrasound is done in breast surgery; plastic surgery is not originally the department for ultrasound. 2) Inflammatory findings in the thorax disappeared. Two years ago, an X-ray showed unclear thoracic borders and they said it looked like inflammation, which was strange because I had no underlying disease. I had heard implants can confuse test interpretation. I do not know for sure, but after implant removal two years later, the test came back normal. 3) Now my breasts are warm and so soft. I was so moved I cried. My breasts had always been cold like a dead person’s and felt hard because they were cold. Now they feel truly like my body. I was deeply regretful and sad that I damaged my health for decades with unnecessary breast augmentation. It is not something to do to your body. Before breast surgery, there were actually more people who truly loved me and wanted to marry me. After breast surgery, perverts gathered around me, and one man, supposedly a pastor’s son, treated me like an adult-video model and made me do strange things. I met the worst men of my life and became sick of marriage. Somehow after breast augmentation, maybe people saw me sexually. Anyway, it is true I met stranger men. 4) Because the pectoralis major was cut, I developed permanent exercise impairment. The muscle jerking when I raise my arms is a lifelong side effect I must live with. In your 40s, you use only the same daily muscles for so long that you have no choice but to exercise, but I cannot do lifting-machine exercises. When I try, my chest muscles twitch visibly, like an animation deformity, and it startles me. That must be why people in exercise-related jobs place implants subfascially instead of dual-plane. They looked obviously fake anyway; if I had researched and chosen subfascial placement, I might not have had exercise impairment. I hate it. The people who created a disability in my body. It was my decision, but permanent disability is too much. 5) Freedom from neck and shoulder stiffness. Plastic surgeons and neurosurgeons said it was not related to implants, but they were wrong. Since removing the implants, I can sleep deeply on my back. For the first time in decades, I slept straight and comfortably. After a few days, my neck and shoulders stopped hurting. Remember: the spine recovers from daytime fatigue during deep sleep in a straight position. When I had implants, my arm numbness was severe, so I had to change from lying straight to sleeping sideways. Strangely, after removal my hand numbness disappeared. I used to wake two or three times because my hands cramped. Even after nerve injections I still had numbness, but now it is gone. I could not sleep well on a cervical pillow before because chest pressure and arm pulling were severe, but now I can use one comfortably. After 17 years of not sleeping properly on my back, my collapsed cervical spine and shoulders from bad posture are improving little by little every day, so I am grateful even now. 6) The positive change of having a lighter body in daily life is much bigger than expected. When walking, changing posture, sleeping, or sitting at a desk, there is no discomfort from the breasts touching things, so my body feels very light and agile. It feels like having a benign tumor removed. 7) Weight loss. About a month after implant removal, I had a checkup and they said, “You lost a lot of weight.” My waist was usually 69 to 69.5 cm, but now it was 63, and they were really surprised. My weight had also dropped by 3 kg. The capsule was a scar my body made while distinguishing self from non-self, the implant. For decades my immune system must have been disturbed by this foreign body. In my 40s I had abdominal bloating and got examined, but nothing special was found. I thought maybe my body just swelled with age, but it seems related to the implants. This is the only thing I can think of that suddenly improved. They said I would gain weight after surgery, and I thought that meant implant weight, but maybe it was related to immune reaction, the implant pressing 24 hours a day, especially compressing the heart and chest during sleep, causing poor circulation and fluid retention. 8) Implants can confuse interpretation of various tests. This is common sense. No matter how advanced technology is, interpreting my 100% natural body without implants is obviously different from interpreting while considering implants.
Reading cosmetic surgery reviews, you may feel glamorous now and not think rupture will be your immediate problem, but some people remove implants after only a few months, so please consider breast surgery carefully. Many reviews seem sales-driven, so meet at least five acquaintances who personally had the surgery, observe side effects closely, and decide. At minimum, buy sandbags equal to the implant weight, put them on your chest, wrap with a bandage, and sleep like that for a few days. For everyone’s health and public interest, although I’m busy, I’ll keep adding photos and reviews little by little. And I no longer envy large breasts or find them pretty. Honestly, even with very small breasts, a confident woman, a woman with healthy breasts, looks noble.
Like 0
Empathy emoticon
Translating
Would you like to scrap this review? +0
This review is for surgery that pursues natural beauty.