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Visitors' Stories -- Red's BA (page 1 of 2) My story is to alert women as to what can happen, even if you think you have researched BA very well. I went to two consults in Feb of ‘98. My first choice was booked till May. My second choice was actually more qualified and had a March opening. He is a professor of PS and Chief of the P.S. Dept. at a Med. College. He is a member of both the ASPS and a ASAPS. I saw him in his private office, he agreed to my choice of McGhan 350 cc textured anatomicals, under the muscle. The morning of surgery I saw him, but after surgery, my husband told me a different doctor talked to him about my case. At the 24 hour post-op check, when the binder dressing was removed, it revealed quite a bit of swelling, gross unevenness, bruising, very high placement and distortion and hard rippling. Even he was surprised. At the 1 week post-op check, they were just as uneven, distorted and misshapen. 2 weeks post-op, no change in appearance, with him saying if they needed fixing, he would do it. By 6 weeks, other than a reduction in swelling, there was little change. High, hard, uneven. He agreed they were not right, stating the pockets were too small, they were mispositioned, the R was implanted so that 3/4 of it was above the nipple and with them being textured, it was not going to drop. The L top pole orientation had slipped from 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock and was about 1 1/2” lower than the R. He thought the hard puckering was due to being overfilled from 350 cc to 360 cc. For the re-do, he agreed to waive the surgeons fees. I asked if he needed to use new implants, he said "no, I reposition them all the time (a red flag!) and never have a problem with reusing them". McGhan has a different story about explanting, then reimplanting implants. (although I've come to understand it is "common" practice) At this point I obtained my op reports and found a 1st year PS resident “assisted” in my BA, of which I had no knowledge. I saw my PS in his private office, and he did not mention the use of residents, nor did I ever see/meet one! With the redo, I made him promise there would be no residents, even in observation, he agreed. But as it turned out, when I filled my post op meds, the resident was listed as the prescribing Dr. At the 24 hour post op check up, he informed me he put 325cc in the R and 300cc in the L and those volumes were okay in a 300 cc implant. He also said he lowered the crease in both of them by 1 1/2". I told him I had 350cc anatomicals, not 300’s and they needed to be filled to the rated volume. And that he was only suppose to lower the R one 1 1/2" so it was even with the L. Apparently he read the 1st operative report wrong, he thought they were 300 cc’s. e checked the chart and sure enough, I had 350 cc implants. He just shrugged and as he walked out said, “well maybe they won’t ripple as much now...”. At the 1 week check up I expressed my dissatisfaction with the under fill, as there was no upper pole fullness, the upper pole area just “collapsed” in. He said “it’s livable, all you need to do is wear a pushup bra to get your final shape”, and “Crease fold fatigue? Don’t worry about it!” And as far as the continued 1 1/2" crease unevenness, "no one is going to see that". (more . . .)
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