My story is quite long, but please hear me out! I need support and advice
I went for surgery on 26th of May this year. I had wanted a boob job since my early teens, I never had much of a bust and felt very insecure about it.
This year (i'm now 20) I finally had enough money to pay for my BA. Decided to go with MYA- was really impressed with the company and felt it was a good decision.
Had a bust of about 30A/B and dress size 6/8 (5ft 2 so pretty small), my surgeon gave me the choice of 300cc or 340cc under the muscles implants. Was very excited about my surgery in May.
OP went great! No bad effects to the GA, hosptial staff were very pleasant and had faith in what my surgeon was doing. Things were doing okay until about 2 weeks in, then the nightmare began.
I was still wearing steri-strips at this point but I noticed a yellowy watery drop coming from underneath. Having felt under pressure to return to work after 10 days, i had maybe overstrained myself. I showed a nurse, not a MYA nurse, as I live about 90 miles away from the nearest MYA clinic (at the time). The nurse looked at the wound and covered it up with dressings etc. At this point there was no swelling or redness, just what I thought was a little innocent leaking.
Things went from bad to worse, a week or two onwards and I developed a high fever, was shivering like mad and the entire breast has swollen up red. VERY painful. MYA were very helpful as they told me to get antibiotics from my local GP and arranged an appointment with the MYA nurse and the next available appointment with a surgeon.
After 2 more weeks, the wound had leaked so much it had caused damage (a tract or something??) that even though the infection was gone it was still leaking. Meaning i'd have wet patches constantly appearing under my top and having to constantly check up on it. There was no other option than to return to surgery.
My surgeon explained the possibility of having to go without the left implant for 3 months. This broke my heart! I'd just at the beginining of May started seeing a new guy- absolutely lovely- but how could I ask him to put up with me only having 1 breast so early on- purely out of the reasons of what he might see as vanity.
We decided to go with the option of removal of the implant, clearing the pocket out and reinsertion of the implant in the one operation.
2 weeks later...the infection had returned, leaking everywhere. I was devisatated.
Went back to see surgeon, got prescribed more antibiotics. Wound started to heal until I noticed a black hole which started growing and growing by the day...
On returning back to the clinic, MYA had managed to get me in with another surgeon who explained that the implant was coming out of this hole. I was horrified.
I did not blame MYA in any way up till this point as I feel I was just unlucky getting this infection. MYA arranged for me to get an emergency surgery and paid full expenses of the trip. This time though, the implant was removed, leaving an A cup left and DD right. I was given an implant to wear as a prosthesis inside my bra, very grateful for this. The next three months were a strain on my relationship, but we made it, I promised to my boyfriend after this it would be fixed and after it was in, there's little chance of anything going wrong.
On november I returned back to manchester to get my left implant put back in. Again the operation went well, and my surgeon did an excellent job as ever of stitching the wound up.
On my check up appointment the next week , everything looked good. The nurse decided to not put any dressings on it after she'd taken the stitches off. A week later, one side of the incision had ripped a little and had a tiny bit of blood, I immediately picked up the phone to the nurses helpline and followed their advice and covered it with steri-strips. A week later, a blister had developed. I kept it covered with a dry dressing. 5 weeks in the blister had burst leaving a hole. By 6 weeks I revisited my surgeon who was wary of the situation and told me to keep a close eye on it and keep it covered.
On Christmas eve, after my shower, I took off a dressing and infectious ooze came pouring out once again.
4 operations, and none of them seem to have worked. I am in total misery. I've spent Christmas day looking after my wound and trying to stay postive after 4 failed attempts, 3 months without an implant and not being able to go to the gym in so long due to post-operative rest has resulted in me putting on 2 stone.
I'm terrified about what is going to happen next and I don't know if anyone else has been in a similar situation?! I am determined that I want these implants and I don't want to be left with no breasts and horrible scars. What's going to happen now?
IS there anyone out there who can help????