collared_cherri got her boobjob!

[MasterDragonfly]

Her surgery was this morning.  

Details:

- Inamed model 68 (smooth, round) moderate profile 800cc saline implants overfilled to 1000cc each
- under the muscle
- breast fold incision
- vertical mastopexy

I don't *think* I've missed any noteworthy detail, but if so, ask away.

The worst part for her was the post-op nausea.  Some serious, serious nausea.    But I got her hooked up with her anti-nausea meds as soon as we got home, and she conked out soon thereafter.

As soon as we were on the road, she felt they weren't big enough.  

Once she woke up, she wanted to take a better look at the new boobs.  And it was the first time I got a good chance to check them out, too (apart from a glimpse as the nurse helped her into the car, and some VERY light touching).  This time I was slightly more touchy-feely.  I completely avoided anywhere there were stitches, but a good portion of the implants are (for now) up to her collarbones.  I was warned by the nurse that they'd look pretty high up and boxy, and I'd seen enough surgery shows that my expectations were already set to expect something less than picture perfect boobs.  No surpises there.

As far as pain level, she said on a scale of '1' to '10' it's a '3'.  Compare that with the '9' she said she was feeling immediately after her LAP-band surgery.  She even said that if she had to do it again tomorrow, she could do it, no problem.  

Yeah, they're very firm at the moment, but obviously the implant pocket is pretty damn tight around them at the moment.  Check back in a few months (heck, even a month from now) and no doubt the description will be different.  

I'm sure this news is a bit of a surprise to many of you.  We were keeping this pretty much on the down low.  Didn't want to jinx anything and find ourselves posting "well we've had a delay", etc.  Took a while to get our ducks in a row as I'm sure a few of you might remember, but a recent bit of good luck produced the opportunity for us to take.

Oh yeah.  No doubt there will be request for pics.    I've taken a pic, I'll upload it shortly.  But I'll tell you this, a pic just can't convey the 3-D essence of being there in person.

/me does the happy dance

[DruulEmpire]

Magnificent!  I hope she posts before too much longer, too; we haven't heard a peep from her since June.  Looking forward!

[ValNTx]

Congrats!!  Sounds like everything went well.  Liland?  How was the experience?

[movinmelo]

Congrats!  Good to hear that everything went well.

[lovefakeboobs]

Congrats for you and her.
I am surprised she got her BA shortly after her lap-band surgery
I think she said is a dd naturally. Not to many women that big want to get a ba.
Maybe you said and I did not read it. what did she get overs or unders? I am sure they are going to look good

[MasterDragonfly]

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ValNTx said:
Congrats!!  Sounds like everything went well.  Liland?  How was the experience?

Yes, Dr Liland.    And except for the nausea (and from what factual snippets she's been able to give me), it seems it was a slam dunk.

I'll definitely have to get her to follow-up to this thread when she's feeling more, well, awake than she is now.  

In the meantime, pic attached.  You can still see one of the LAP-band scars (horizontal mark, just to the right of center); the other LAP-band scars are outside of the frame of view of the pic.  And those curved shadows where her collarbones should be?  Yeah, that's the upper curve of the implants.  

Her LAP-band surgery was in July, so it wasn't *that* recent.  And when we mentioned during the original consult that the LAP-band scars while doing quite good in terms of quality of scar, but were still healing up, he indicated that this is quite normal for LAP-band scars, and that breast augmentation scars should healp up MUCH more quickly.

Thanks to all for the support!

Copyright (c) MasterDragonfly

[ValNTx]

I think she'll be pleased with Liland's work. Besides myself, several girls I know achieved great results with him.

Curious...did you find his bedside manner a little "odd" (for lack of a better word)?  Also, when I first met Liland, I wasn't overly impressed with his office or even his selection of before/after photos, but having seen the results first hand of three girls that went to him, I knew he was the PS for me.  Besides, he's one for the few PS's in Dallas that'll go very big.

Take care of the little lady and keep us informed of her recovery.

Val

[MasterDragonfly]

Awesome, it's always great to hear positive reinforcing feedback.  

As far as bedside manner, hm... given that his office assistant raved about his bedside manner at the pre-op meeting, I thought it was just me.  He's reasonably pleasant, certainly seems calm, professional and relaxed.  He's just a bit... terse, I guess I would say?  Never a hint of harshness in his words, ever.

We both liked his reception room.  The motif seemed to be a cross between Chinese and Thai collectibles, which gave us the warm fuzzies.    The motif was carried on to the various exam rooms.  

We had been to another Dallas area surgeon whose office was quite... office-like.  Sterile.  Aloof.  I've been to family practice offices which were far warmer than the office of this unnamed other surgeon.

Then again, we'd been to yet another surgeon's practice at one time whose office was very nice.  Lush furniture in the waiting room, the reception desk just sort of offers a friendly curve (and isn't behind a pane of glass).  Even the exam room was ample, and cloth housecoats (instead of those paper exam covers) were the norm there.

The differences in offices could be all about location, though.

When Dr Liland's nurse went to take cherri's pre-op photos, the camera looked a little dated.  And it was a Polaroid.  And I remember the pre/post pic binder; those pics looked somewhat grainy, but that could have been from the printer they came off.  I had brought along my 10 megapixel Canon A640 and matched her pic for pic, and she said they were looking at doing some updates, including to his website.

Btw, cherri's up now.  And she's very pleased with the work.  

[wanna_party_inLA]

Congratulation! please keep us posted with further development..

[sasha32j]

Congrats and all the best for you both. A note for anyone with nausea after surgery. After my 1 and 2nd ba I just thought SEVERE nausea was the norm and really dreaded it more than the post op pain. At my last ba pre-op the doc asked about any concerns and I expressed my problem  with nausea. He had the anestesiologist come in and consult with me. He said now that he knew my disposition to getting sick he would tailor the cocktail that put me under. He sure did the trick as this ba was pretty much nausea free.
Congrats again and I bet your looking forward to a month from now

[BigEyes]

the Nausea may likely be cause by demerol, a common anestesia.
I've had this for several ops over the years, and dame near every time woke up to empty my already empty guts.

Oh, and congrats on the BA.

[MasterDragonfly]

Interesting point on the demerol, and also the custom cocktail.

What's also possibly worth noting is after she had her LAP-band surgery, she didn't experience any nausea at all.  She was in a lot of pain back then, but no noteworthy nausea (that she can recall, anyway).  I do recall it took her a while to come around after that surgery, whereas she seemed pretty alert after yesterday's surgery.

[Questor]

Outstanding news MDF.  I'm glad to hear everything went so well!  Lots of pampering to come for her, I'm sure.

Q

[USER_2381_NOT_FOUND]

Allow me to offer my sincerest contrifibularities.

[Sandy_in_RI]

Whooo-Hoooo!  I say again; WHOO-Hooo!

(Remember, one of the best parts of getting new boobs is taking them SHOPPING!)  

All together now:  SHOPPING!  SHOPPING!  SHOPPING!  SHOPPING!

[MasterDragonfly]

Interestingly, she's not a huge fan of shopping.  Certainly not shopping for the sake of shopping.  She's very un-chick-like that way.  She gets *really* irritated standing in lines, and generally hates the whole shopping experience.  If she needs to get something, she'll put it off until she can't put it off any longer.  

But me?  Yeah, I'm keen to get her some new stuff.  She would probably find the shopping experience more tolerable with me there, although the sprint would likely be brief.


And now for this morning's update.

Yesterday afternoon/evening was more uncomfy for her.  Not entirely unexpected, but a little surprising, given how well she did the first night.  Her biggest complaint had to do with her shoulders being pulled forwards (no doubt to the taut tissues in front) and her trying to seek relief.  Ultimately she took me up on my offer to massage her back and shoulders, although we had to do it from the seated position, for obvious reasons.

She went to bed early, like around 9pm.  She got up around 11pm, checking with me to see whether it was okay to take another round of her meds (except for the muscle relaxer, which couldn't be taken before 1:30am).  Then back to bed.

I slept solidly, which was the first since before the surgery.  Too much excitement, I guess.  

But she told me this morning that around 3am she wasn't very comfy, so she got up and set herself up in a chair we have in the bedroom.  She took the opportunity to take her muscle relaxer.  The chair doesn't have a high back; she said she slept better, except for not having proper neck support.  This need to sit almost sitting up seems to be a common theme, post-op.  I don't know whether it's due to the weight of the implants on the chest (vs letting gravity pull them downwards), or what.  I'd ask her, but she's resting at the moment.

She also didn't want to put on her post-op bra this morning.  She said she came to realize that the pressure (towards her centerline) on the lateral aspect of her breasts was the cause of a lot of her discomfort late yesterday, so she's going to give that a miss today.  I'm sure as things get more comfy for her, she'll get back into that bra.

Oh, and we've both noticed that her implants seem to have dropped an inch or two already.  The first night in bed, she turned her head at one point and was amused by the fact that her chin bumped into the top of her implant.  She realized today she can no longer do that.  The tops of the implants do appear to not be quite so high, and the lower aspect of her breasts do seem a bit fuller.  I don't know about you folks, but I find this stuff fascinating.  

She took me up on the offer to help her out of bed this morning.  Which is interesting, because she didn't wake me up to help her out of bed at 3am; surely that had to be difficult to manage, especially when feeling underslept.

She's also managed to put on a button-up shirt, track jacket and light winter jacket (it's been a bit nippy here lately -- pun intended) without assistance, albeit slowly.  She can also take her shoes off, although she did let me help her put her socks and shoes on.  I'm amazed that she's not asking me to help her more, but I'm guessing she's just trying to regain her independence with regards to the basic things we take for granted.

Right now she's got the TV on her usual morning show, she's got her wedge pillow positioned vertically behind her on the couch (she's reclined at about 30 to 45 degrees from horizontal) with a blanket covering her.  She appears to be asleep, although the last time I went to the kitchen she suddenly came to life, reminding me not to jump in the shower without her (I'll need to wash her hair and... whatever else she wants washing not to mention gently towel dry her), but I was just going to get my first espresso of the day.

I'll need to snag more pics today.  Actually, I should have a few from yesterday, which I'll see about posting today.

[reman]

Try adding pillow(s) under her knees.  It takes pressure off of the lower back and reduces pressure points on her butt!  

Wonderful for you two!  

[lovefakeboobs]

Master, that is a nice thing you have a wife willing to do a BA You have an Guess what size she will be
 

[MasterDragonfly]

A crude guess?  After the dust settles, the swelling goes down and the implants drop?

38H.

[homevintner]

Congrats to the both of you.

[TF22]

I'd also like to echo the congratulations to you two. Best of luck!

[collared_cherri]

Hello one and all.

Apologies if I sound confused or repeat myself.  I'm on meds so that's my excuse.

Things are progressing slowly but surely.  I don't have any pain per se, with the exception of when I try to get up from a lying position.  There's tightness and discomfort more than anything else.  There's bruising to the sides where my pecs are.  I just noticed that this morning.  The pressure I felt on the top of my breasts near my collar bone has dropped a little today, so I'm guessing gravity is assisting in having them fall into place.

Last night I slept sitting up on the couch with my legs resting on a stool.  This gave me a pretty decent sleep.  I was pleasantly surprised by that.  It also allowed me to rest my arms on a couple of pillow each side to keep my arms elevated.  This kept them from resting on my pecs where the swelling is that I mentioned.

As for arm mobility, I have a lot more in my right than my left.  I can easily touch the top of my head with my right hand but can't get my left up there without feeling some pain in my left pec.

It's hard work to get my posture right.  Dropping my shoulders down and back takes a lot of effort and it's not long before I notice that I'm subconsciously slouching over again.

We bought F and H cup bras in preparation for these boobs, but I don't think there's any way I'll be able to fit into the Fs.  I was wearing the H on Thursday and that was a much better fit where the cups were concerned, but the bandeau was really uncomfortable.  It's a 38 and fit nicely pre-op, but I think with the extra swelling in my pec area it's the reason I can't get the clasps anywhere near one another.  So right now I'm bra-free.  MD is out on a course today and mentioned he'd try to pick up some elastic bandaging that we can perhaps wrap around me to give me some support and stability there until I can get into a bra comfortably.

The day of the surgery after waking up here at home I felt great.  Yesterday was a little more uncomfortable for me.  I just couldn't seem to find a position to sit or lie in that helped me.  But thanks to reman's advice on the pillows under my knees and thinking it'd probably help with my arms/pecs as well, I felt a lot better.

I'm hoping to be able to come off my pain meds today.  They help me a lot with the discomfort, but they also put me to sleep or make my head spin when I'm awake.  We'll just have to wait and see.

Well that's about it from me today.  Just wanted to pop in myself and give you an update.  Thank you all for your kind words and best wishes.  They were very much appreciated.

[DruulEmpire]

Go take care of yourself, and thank you for checking in, it had been a while.

[lovefakeboobs]

CC this is what you said in one of my boards a while back,

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I've been fortunate enough to have some practice runs beforehand. I have a pair of 800cc prostheses that I've worn out on occasions. They've stopped conversations, quietened rooms when I've walked in and been the centre of attention at times. They're certainly a confidence booster and I'm looking forward to the day I get my brand new boobies.  

Now you do not have to wear the prostheses any more...but on the other hand you can take that 800cc and put that in again. Are the breasts senitative, most docs recommend a few weeks before you can have sex.
I would love to find someone who wants or have modified themselves more than average size.

I think you did it you wanted your chest the size of your heart

[MasterDragonfly]

Heh, well they're sensitive to pain.  

I'm not sure what you're looking to hear at this point.  She's taking prescription meds, she's uncomfortable from things healing and shifting into new and desireable positions.  Not really the time to be trying to get amorous, I don't think.  

Last we checked, her nipples didn't have any sensation at all.  Nothing to be alarmed about, as things are still a long way from fully healed.

Yeah, she could stuff her bra with the 800cc prostheses, but... we'd need to find the right bra for that, and at this point, we don't have the right bra for the odd shape her breasts are now.  It woulr probably be a REALLY bad idea trying to stuff the prostheses into her current 40H, pressing up against her sutures and all.

Once things have settled, we'll be in a position to verify her bra size, and *then* consider stuffing the bra with the prostheses.  And that would probably require a new bra, as her currently new 38H/40H bras are quite snug (and as cherri mentioned, the 38H can't even be closed yet, although the bandeau was a good snug fit pre-op).

Bleh.  I'm exhausted from today, and I haven't had a full night's sleep since before cherri's surgery.  

[lovefakeboobs]

I take it C_C wants to be bigger than she will be now. What is the max she can get her implants overfilled too. She wanting to be the Size of Beshine?
You are a pretty supportive guy for her

[MasterDragonfly]

The answer to overfilling any saline implant is "it depends".

You can overfill an implant to significantly more than the rated size.  Just ask Antoinette.

Then there's the question as to what the manufacturer would be willing to warranty.  I've heard "up to 20% overfill", I've heard "more than 20% if the surgeon deems it necessary", so I'm not really crystal clear on that.

But again, if manufacturer's warranty (or lack thereof) isn't an issue, then you can go overfill-crazy.

The problem then becomes finding a surgeon to overfill them.

Now in cherri's case, these are 800cc implants overfilled to 1000cc.  That's slightly more than 20% overfill.  And for these implants, it looks like these will never get overfilled again.  Of course, never say never, anything is possible, but from where I'm sitting now, THESE specific implants will not be overfilled any more than they currently are.

That's not to say that she won't go back for more someday.

She did the rice test ages ago with 2000cc of rice, and she was pretty pleased with the look.  But the rice test is a crude approximation of what actual implanted breasts would look like with implants at that volume.

She indicated the afternoon of the surgery that they didn't look nearly big enough.  Meaning she was quite keen to go bigger.

But that was then.  Ask us again in 4 weeks.  Then ask us again in 3 months.  

[mofoapoo]

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But that was then.  Ask us again in 4 weeks.  Then ask us again in 3 months.  

these god damn keyboards don't have a fast forward button on them, i've been searching frantically...and nothing!

[beachboy]

Actually my keyboard does have one, but I think it's only useful when playing DVDs on the computer.

[jklope4]

Great news, MD and C_C! I'm glad to hear that everything went well with the surgery.
Here's wishing you a speedy recovery!  

[bjy]

Congrat. As you know I am looking to go for 1000cc and love to see how 1000cc would look like, would love to see more as she feel better. Can you share her before  stats?  As for sleeping confort, I found using on bed reading pillow worked super, I can sleep with no back pain.

[collared_cherri]

lovefakeboobs, I'll try to answer your questions.

I never really HAD to wear the prostheses I just did on occasions for aesthetic reasons and to get an idea of what it would be like to carry 800ccs around for a period of time.  My starting measurements were a somewhat empty DD.  Stuffing my bra gave me the look I was wanting, but it's a long way from having the same kind of volume stuffed under my skin.  You can't really get an idea of what effect it will have on your muscles and skin when they're simply placed on the outside.  But yes, once everything has healed well I'll be curious to see what it would look like with the prostheses added to what I currently have now.

Today I'm feeling a lot more lucid.  The meds do a great job with helping me deal with pain and discomfort, however they knock me out and I'm sleeping for a good period of the time.

I spent the last couple of nights sleeping on the couch as it allowed me to keep upright and put cushions under my arms for support.  However at 3am this morning I just wanted to lay horizontal, so I got up and took my meds and eased myself down as best I could.  I conk out pretty quickly after the pain meds and woke this morning feeling good.

I've had to keep a written record of what meds I've taken and when as they have different time periods.  The anti-biotic is every 12 hours, the anti-muscles spasm is every 8 and the pain and anti-nausea is every 4.  It's impossible to keep those kinds of records in my head, so I wrote them all down.  BTW, my writing is horrific at the moment. lol

Today I was able to shower on my own.  YAY!  MD is away on a course again today and I desperately wanted a shower but wasn't up for it when he was ready at 6am.  The only area I could wash properly was my right armpit.  It feels like I have a tennis ball under my left armpit and I just can't get the reach over there.  I got the loofa and did as best as I could though.

I even managed to get a bra on today.  It was one of the larger bandeau bras (42), so I was quite pleased with myself in that regard.  I have deodorant in my left armpit but not in my right, so I'm only half smelly.  I have the ability to raise both my arms up or back (to fasten my bra clasps) but can't bring my hands together in front to wash them.  So usually I'm bending over to do them both at once or turning to the side to get them done individually.

I have sensation in my nipples today.  Not quite like I had prior to surgery, but I have feeling nonetheless.  It's comparable to the feeling you would have if you touched your nose.  It doesn't necessarily send tingles to your naughty bits, but you know your nose has been touched.  That's kind of how it is today with my nipples.  

The tightness has dropped a little.  Yesterday it was really tight high up by my shoulders, today it's a little lower down so I guess the implants are slowly moving southward.

That shine you often get associated with really taught stretching has gone as well.  They're still quite swollen, but don't feel quite as taut as they have been of late.

So I'm going to see how I go today without having to take pain meds.  I took my last dose at 7:40am this morning and don't feel I need them so far.  But believe me, I'm not the hero type that will go without them to show how tough I can be.  If it starts to hurt, I'll be popping them.  I'm hoping to stay lucid for the Cowboys (YAY) vs Redskins (BOO) game today.  Feel free to boo me.  I don't care.  I gots boobies!!!!  


Oh, MD has more pics somewhere so when he gets around to it he'll be posting them.  Right now my brain is on minimum life support and can't be bothered thinking about finding the camera and downloading pics off it to here.

[Psf_79]

I'm late, but here's congratulations on the operation to both Cherri and MDF! You more than deserve this

[Sandy_in_RI]

W00t!

[lovefakeboobs]

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collared_cherri said:
I've had to keep a written record of what meds I've taken and when as they have different time periods.  The anti-biotic is every 12 hours, the anti-muscles spasm is every 8 and the pain and anti-nausea is every 4....

 Antibiotics...humm....what are you taking and for how long. Might to take a little probiotics too. It could mess up your microfloia esp in your reproductive area. I wish I could find someone big that some day wants to be bigger. Most women do not really share that fetish with someone. I think I would be happy to find someone least with a d cup, on the other hand I would not turn away someone whose flat.

C_C You come along way