Breast impants..again..

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Hello everyone!I posted about breast implants about a year ago,but was wanting to know if anyone has any new information or personal experiences that they would like to share.I am still seriously considering getting breast implants, and enjoy hearing about postive and negative experiences from anyone that is willing to share their personal experiences. Thank you to everyone in advance! =)

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This situation is one I can't understand. It sounds like just the polar opposite of being large chested.

JUST TRY to get a date to look past your boobs to see your face when you talk. Just TRY to run PT in the military, with the stupid things rocking like 20 lb boulders to and fro. I used to run with one arm under my chest to support them.

I guess it sucks to be on either end of the spectrum. I can't understand the burden of being small breasted--- and you certainly could never feel my pain as being a 14 year old girl stuck in a DD cup and having grown men OOGLE and MAKE AWFUL Comments at you. Having your father laugh at you and call you Aunt Jemima cause of your big chest....

You will never know how hard it is to find a bra to support them w/o hurting your shoulders with dig marks. Or the pain of a backache from so much weight of heavy breasts. I shopped all over for them, usually in vain.

Yes, I would taking being small over being larged-chested any day of the week. But that is just ME. Women are burdened on either end of the spectrum. We are more harshly judged by our appearance than men, that is a fact. I say, Leave those who elect to, and can pay for surgery to improve things, alone. Criticisms do NOT help and certainly DO NOTHING TO UNITE US.

Now does anyone have a criticism for me? I was vain enough to have breast surgery; I had a reduction some years ago. Yes, it improved my self-esteem immeasurably. And I would to it again. So I say, IF having breast surgery to change things either way is what one elects to do, IT IS HER PREROGATIVE and let's not criticize but support her.

Good day everyone! :)

Good post.

mona

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Like I said further up this post, I think this is a very personal decision. I've been in enough of both surgeries to believe that those who do either surgery do them for valid reasons that are not mine to question. However, when one posts such personal information about their bodies to a website, there will always be those who feel the need to comment about "why" someone would do something like it. If I were contemplating either surgery I wouldn't care what someone on a board had to say about it. It's your body.

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One thing everyone needs to remember is just because you have breast implants dosn't mean you have big ol jerry springer stripper boobs. A lot of women who have them come from every aspect of life. Some have larger more "fake" looking boobs and others have more realistic. I bet you know someone who has them and you can't even tell.

And just like very large women, small breasts can cause emotional scars. I had a friend who's uncle use to ask her if she was a boy (she had very short hair) and he would also tease her and ask when she was going to hit puberty (at 20)

There is one part on every ones body that they are unhappy with and I can almost be that everyone would do something about it if they where given the chance. I had the chance and I'm very happy. This wasn't a gateway for me, I don't want to run out and get them bigger or get lipo or a nose job, I'm happy and my clothes fit.

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Perhaps being personal invites opinions, yes, I would agree. But being so critical is not really necessary, esp when it is an INFORMATION-SEEKING thread, not a thread asking opinions about why women get implants!

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When you are as flat as a board and you go to try on everthing from bathing suits to fancy dresses and even regular shirts you realize these clothes aren't made for you. Bras had to be so padded to even fit into some clothes they where uncomfortable. Random remarks made to you about being flat as a board etc. It gets old real fast.

My answer to those that called me Ironing Board, Coaster **** or Pancake Queen: until you're the picture of perfection, keep your warped opinion to yourself.

It's one thing if clothing doesn't fit right (and i had that problem), and implants are gotten, but what really disturbs me is if someone lets someone's namecalling and bullying be the reason they got the implants. I always really hope that's not the case.

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I asked around at work, (large augmentation population at my unit?) Two have "anatomicals" which are tear dropped shaped which look VERY natural and not at all round, both went over the muscle to not interfere with mamograms. One had the standard "rounds", a bit big, but under the muscle. All three said, they wished they had done it sooner. None had problems. We didn't discuss sensation changes, I work with these people :chuckle .

Lasik surgery, vision correction for those who don't wish the cosmetic appearance of glasses, carries a risk of blindness. Find a thread where people are saying be satisfied with what you have and love yourself, don't risk the surgery complications :rotfl:

Can't fill out a bathing suit, a dress? and having the corrective surgery will enhance how you feel about yourself? I'd be running to a surgeon (after researching his butt up and down) Meet with a plastic surgeon and ask if any of his patients have given authorization to give a phone referal about their experiences and his care.

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I dispatched a call one time car vs. semi...head on... the patient (a stripper) was flown to our hospital and she had every bone in her body broken...the only thing that didn't bust was her implants. :rotfl:

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This thread is close to 3 years old.

And i really haven't changed my thought or feelings on such a subject (and before it's said, i'm well-aware that this thread was info requesting).

If anything, i've seen more women (girls, really, barely 18) who have gotten/are getting implants, and it doesn't seem like it's for themselves. The plastic surgery shows (what Matt calls Boob TV, since most of them feature breast implants) disturb me. So many young women getting "bewbies" because "i'll get better modeling jobs," "I'll make more money as a stripper," "I'll be more womanly." I use the TV shows as an example, because i've also heard these 'reason' in real life locally, and even the comments of "my boyfriend/husband wants them bigger". Yep there's a good reason to get surgery. And "he likes them too". Of course he does. He didn't go through the pain and healing.:uhoh3:

"I'll be more womanly" kinda disturbs me, that someone's definition of a woman is breasts, and stuffing them with bags of silicone or saline is the solution to being more of a woman.. A woman who has has a mastectomy, or double mastectomy is no less of a woman, however, so that's why the womanly phrase irks me.

And to see these barely 18 year olds doing this. I was barely a B when i was 18 (so i got to experience the flat insults), and i'm now a full C, all natural, ever since i was 27-28. So even at 18 i wasn't done developing yet. So i wonder, for those that were so young when they got this done, i wonder how they would have looked if they had waited a few years.

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This situation is one I can't understand. It sounds like just the polar opposite of being large chested.

JUST TRY to get a date to look past your boobs to see your face when you talk. Just TRY to run PT in the military, with the stupid things rocking like 20 lb boulders to and fro. I used to run with one arm under my chest to support them.

I guess it sucks to be on either end of the spectrum. I can't understand the burden of being small breasted--- and you certainly could never feel my pain as being a 14 year old girl stuck in a DD cup and having grown men OOGLE and MAKE AWFUL Comments at you. Having your father laugh at you and call you Aunt Jemima cause of your big chest....

You will never know how hard it is to find a bra to support them w/o hurting your shoulders with dig marks. Or the pain of a backache from so much weight of heavy breasts. I shopped all over for them, usually in vain.

Yes, I would taking being small over being larged-chested any day of the week. But that is just ME. Women are burdened on either end of the spectrum. We are more harshly judged by our appearance than men, that is a fact. I say, Leave those who elect to, and can pay for surgery to improve things, alone. Criticisms do NOT help and certainly DO NOTHING TO UNITE US.

Now does anyone have a criticism for me? I was vain enough to have breast surgery; I had a reduction some years ago. Yes, it improved my self-esteem immeasurably. And I would to it again. So I say, IF having breast surgery to change things either way is what one elects to do, IT IS HER PREROGATIVE and let's not criticize but support her.

Good day everyone! :)

Very well said! My sister takes after my mom in the sense that she had DDs by the time she was 15 years old. I take after my Dad's side and have a B cup and whenever me and my sister go out I feel that people are constantly comparing our breasts. Once when we were at a party, a drunk guy boozily asked me if I wish that I had gotten genes like my sister. It took everything in my power not to deck him one in the face. :angryfire I confided into her one day that I wish I had a bigger chest, but she almost broke down crying saying how much she hated hers. People stare at them all of the time (not just men, women too), she has to try on many different kinds of bras to find one that "Will just have to do" and forget about jogging. She also receives comments from male family relatives who thinks that it's funny to pick on that part of her body (because we all know how appropriate that is!). My mom had to have breast reduction surgery because of lower back pains and after all of the years of wearing a bra, it had actually started to create an indentation into her shoulder. After the surgery people would comment to her "Wow! You have really lost a lot of weight!" Technically she did lose weight, but I believe your upper body is where people draw their attention to you first so that is why people were making comments like that. I have thought about getting implants, but in I'm really too chicken s*** to make the move.

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My sister was a G cup and she got a reduction over the summer. Now she is down to a D and she says she feels great. All of her back pain is gone and she no longer has to spend $75 per bra. I am on the total opposite of the spectrum from her, I have always been an A cup. Now that I am nursing I am a full B but goodness only knows what my breasts will look like once I am done. I have contemplated going bigger but I don't like that part about having to replace implants every decade or taking the chance that I could spring a leak or be left scared for life if I have a crappy surgery. My husband, of course, loves my bigger breasts but who cares what he thinks. I would never let how he feels about my boobies affect a decsion to get implants. The day he starts to harp about my sagging boobs will be the day that I tell him I wouldn't mind if he got surgery to add an extra inch or two down there!

I accept him as is and he had better accept me as I am or he is outta here!

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The day he starts to harp about my sagging boobs will be the day that I tell him I wouldn't mind if he got surgery to add an extra inch or two down there!

:roll :roll :roll

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those of us who are logical and motivated? $5,000 chump change? Wow. You're quite lucky then. I consider myself very logical and very motivated but $5,000 certainly isn't chump change in my book and an extra $5,000 would certainly have an impact on my substantial home. Yes, it is quite substantially.....really it is!

I'm glad you're happy with your results and that $5,000 wouldn't mean diddly in your substantial home. :uhoh3:

Continued good luck to you

In the big scheme of things I think he means 5k isn't much. I bought a new truck in august, it's already worth $10,000 less than what I paid for it. That $5k isn't sounding so big. I know people with TV's that cost more than that.

I am PRO making yourself happy. If this makes you happy go for it. I think plastic surgery is great. If you want to change it and it can be changed then do the damn thing. I personally like women with smaller boobs, around a B or a C cup. I know a few women who were A cups that upgraded and they were really happy. I saw a before pic of one and it was a great investment IMO.

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