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RD's Breast Augmentation - A dream come true . . . In the beginning… I was 22 and had wanted an augmentation ever since I realized in puberty that my very flat A chest was not going to change no matter how much weight I gained, or how many weights I lifted for my pecs. Although I was athletic & thin, but my wide-set hip bones made me feel extremely pear-shaped and I felt like my boyish flat chest did not fit with my very feminine and sensual emotional make-up. This part of my story is probably not very unique to many other visitors. But my first augmentation was performed in 1992 by an overzealous plastic surgeon in Texas. He was known for going really large, so I never should have trusted his judgment for what my implant size would be, but I did. I ended up with 770cc saline implants that were extremely too large for my 5'4", 115 lb. frame. His "logic" was that because my frame is wide-boned, I needed that kind of volume for my breasts to be "wide enough" to nicely cover my chest (I now know this to be very illogical thinking!). I'm also very short-waisted, so as soon as the implants "dropped," I lost all remnants of a waistline even though I was thin…just big boobs and then my wide hips - NOT the figure enhancement I had hoped for all those years! The lost dream… As time went by, my disappointments amplified. I have what is called "thin skin" - in addition to not having much fat tissue to cover the implants. So the ripples from the saline started showing through my skin. This was truly depressing - it felt like I had two huge water balloons on my chest- and eventually - that is how it actually looked! I'm not sure how long it took for the "bottoming out" to happen, but I eventually noticed that my nipples always looked too high, especially when you could see them through clothing…it was truly awful. I look at the old photos now and am horrified with how I lived with those results for so long. It was partly the fact that when you see yourself every day, you don't really notice how EXTREME it is. It was also partly financial, I did not anticipate replacement within 10 years, and I was putting my money towards other worthy life goals for someone my age. My husband never complained, but one day I woke up and realized I could continue to live with such a depressing and unnecessary problem. The journey… I read Nicole's site to obsession and finally visited several plastic surgeons from her site in the Orange County area. I was so unhappy with what I heard. They all suggested that such a reconstruction was too complex, that I should just stay the same (huge) size and simply replace with smooth silicone implants. The couple of surgeons who would consider going smaller said that I would also require a lift - which would leave significant additional scarring and substantially increase the cost. The silicone implants were already much more expensive than saline - but I understood that to be a definitive requirement in order to eliminate or at least lessen the issue of visible ripples.
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