Guest guest Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 kacey, that is so wierd that you said that about your implant surg. i talked to lots of people that said no big deal-one pain pill and i was in tip top shape. i was miserable- terrible pain, bed-ridden for awhile and those nasty drains. i guess it was our body saying this is not good- what are you doing here! interesting-huh? love, lisakaceybu02 <kaceyalong@...> wrote: Colleen,I think you're onto something here! I know that implant surgery for me was AWFUL! Extra awful. My friend (20 years older) had hers done on a Friday and was back to work that Monday. Me, on-the-other-hand couldn't function for 10 DAYS at all! I had to have my drains in for like 10 days due to all of the fluid draining (which wasn't very common). The surgeon just gave up and removed them, even though I was still draining TONS! Then after surgery, I was WORTHLESS for a long time after. When I finally recovered from surgery, I began to have weird, sharp shooting arm pain episodes. And then the other symptoms eventually kicked in....and my breasts were ALWAYS tender. I think the whole thing was a mess. I wish my surgeon would have taken the extra drainage as a "sign" that maybe my body was rejecting the implants...or at least didn't like them very much.Explantation surgery, however, was NO BIG DEAL AT ALL. I smiled when I woke up and felt like I could wear heels (for the first time in sooooo long) and go dancing! I had to consciously remind myself to take it easy as I just had surgery. I know that a lot of this was because my steriod intake increased at the time of surgery; but my body also looked thinner (very noticably thinner...MTV even commented on it when I woke up!) as I had just gotten rid of my toxic bags!Take care, girl,Kacey> I've heard lots of people lately saying how when they got their implants,> they were back at work after just a couple of weeks. I was in bed in PAIN> for at least three weeks and after that, I was still pretty much out of> commission. I'm wondering if any of you had pain like this (more than> normal) when you first got your implants. Wondering if the amount of pain> then could relate to our illness. Just curious. It could be that I was in so> much pain because I had no right breast and the muscle and skin was> stretched so much....or maybe I'm just a BIG WEENIE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 - Nasty drains? I thought they only put drains in after the explantation surgery. Are docs supposed to do this when you first get implants? I'm only asking because I never had them. Just wondering... Love, Alicelisa robinson <jzamom2001@...> wrote: kacey, that is so wierd that you said that about your implant surg. i talked to lots of people that said no big deal-one pain pill and i was in tip top shape. i was miserable- terrible pain, bed-ridden for awhile and those nasty drains. i guess it was our body saying this is not good- what are you doing here! interesting-huh? love, lisakaceybu02 <kaceyalong@...> wrote: Colleen,I think you're onto something here! I know that implant surgery for me was AWFUL! Extra awful. My friend (20 years older) had hers done on a Friday and was back to work that Monday. Me, on-the-other-hand couldn't function for 10 DAYS at all! I had to have my drains in for like 10 days due to all of the fluid draining (which wasn't very common). The surgeon just gave up and removed them, even though I was still draining TONS! Then after surgery, I was WORTHLESS for a long time after. When I finally recovered from surgery, I began to have weird, sharp shooting arm pain episodes. And then the other symptoms eventually kicked in....and my breasts were ALWAYS tender. I think the whole thing was a mess. I wish my surgeon would have taken the extra drainage as a "sign" that maybe my body was rejecting the implants...or at least didn't like them very much.Explantation surgery, however, was NO BIG DEAL AT ALL. I smiled when I woke up and felt like I could wear heels (for the first time in sooooo long) and go dancing! I had to consciously remind myself to take it easy as I just had surgery. I know that a lot of this was because my steriod intake increased at the time of surgery; but my body also looked thinner (very noticably thinner...MTV even commented on it when I woke up!) as I had just gotten rid of my toxic bags!Take care, girl,Kacey> I've heard lots of people lately saying how when they got their implants,> they were back at work after just a couple of weeks. I was in bed in PAIN> for at least three weeks and after that, I was still pretty much out of> commission. I'm wondering if any of you had pain like this (more than> normal) when you first got your implants. Wondering if the amount of pain> then could relate to our illness. Just curious. It could be that I was in so> much pain because I had no right breast and the muscle and skin was> stretched so much....or maybe I'm just a BIG WEENIE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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