Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You really want fake boobs when you get to be 60years old, 70, etc.

You do know they only last 5-10 years and have to be replaced?

Imagine that unneeded surgery and associated risks with anathesia at an older age....

Also--I have a friend that has breast cancer and the doctor came outright and told her the implants are the reason it was missed early on.

This is absolutly false.

My mother has had the SAME implants since 1990-do the math on that one. She is 60 and I can guarantee you that she still loves them. IF she needed hers replaced she said she would go bigger and she would go silicone to "try them out". We do not stop wanting to be beautiful and look good when we get older.

Not the poster you are replying to but generally 10-12 years us average.
I have seen old people with implants. It looks weird.

Is your mom slim?

Old women with perky implants is HIGHLY disturbing...stomach turning.

OP, do it if you want.
You will lose the crunchy title though--but who cares?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You really want fake boobs when you get to be 60years old, 70, etc.

You do know they only last 5-10 years and have to be replaced?

Imagine that unneeded surgery and associated risks with anathesia at an older age....

Also--I have a friend that has breast cancer and the doctor came outright and told her the implants are the reason it was missed early on.

This is absolutly false.

My mother has had the SAME implants since 1990-do the math on that one. She is 60 and I can guarantee you that she still loves them. IF she needed hers replaced she said she would go bigger and she would go silicone to "try them out". We do not stop wanting to be beautiful and look good when we get older.

Not the poster you are replying to but generally 10-12 years us average.
I have seen old people with implants. It looks weird.
Is your mom slim?

Anonymous wrote:I am tall and athletic/lean. 5'9" and 133 lbs. I nursed my kids forever and now my boobs look AWFUL. We're talking saggy fried eggs. They were a pert 34 A/maybe B to start...now I don't fill a padded A cup.
Seriously - Fried eggs, people. And the deflated saggy nipples look like hell, too. I want implants so badly - Dh says to do it if I want, but I am scared I will die on the table and leave my kids motherless so I can have some boobs. I do like these ladies on here who say live life to the fullest, boobs and all!

So I just had a double mastectomy with immediate reconstruction. I was a small deflated B before-nursed three kids-I am now a full B, small C maybe. I am only a month out so cannot speak to the final product but they look ok right now, "fuller" than I was before but not too different. My recovery is probably a bit worse than just augmentation but really not too bad-I mean not easy but ok. Life is too short-do what feels right for you and do not worry about what others think. Also, I am small, 5"4 113 pounds so I wanted to be proportionate.

I am tall and athletic/lean. 5'9" and 133 lbs. I nursed my kids forever and now my boobs look AWFUL. We're talking saggy fried eggs. They were a pert 34 A/maybe B to start...now I don't fill a padded A cup.
Seriously - Fried eggs, people. And the deflated saggy nipples look like hell, too. I want implants so badly - Dh says to do it if I want, but I am scared I will die on the table and leave my kids motherless so I can have some boobs. I do like these ladies on here who say live life to the fullest, boobs and all!

Anonymous wrote:You really want fake boobs when you get to be 60years old, 70, etc.

You do know they only last 5-10 years and have to be replaced?

Imagine that unneeded surgery and associated risks with anathesia at an older age....

Also--I have a friend that has breast cancer and the doctor came outright and told her the implants are the reason it was missed early on.

This is absolutly false.

My mother has had the SAME implants since 1990-do the math on that one. She is 60 and I can guarantee you that she still loves them. IF she needed hers replaced she said she would go bigger and she would go silicone to "try them out". We do not stop wanting to be beautiful and look good when we get older.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP. Removal is extremely easy. Why not just remove them? Its not even expensive and literally takes the doctor 15 min...I know this because I'm a nurse at a surgery center and assist in all kinds of cosmetic surgery. You could even do it under local. It is probably THE easiest procedure.

Still $2400 big ones. I am scared of only being under local- you think it would really be ok? My surgeon did say it would be fine & was up to me but I feel scared. Thanks for telling me this.

scared of what? I'm not sure what would be scared of.

I got breast implants on 10/16. Idk if I am "crunchy" but I did breast feed, natural birth, etc & I am pretty health conscious. I did it bc after bf & significant weight loss, I had no breasts. Like NONE. And I am not petite / small framed or tall and very slender. Rather, I am curvy on bottom and had nothing to balance it out. My breasts were smaller than in 7th grade. So far I am super pleased that I did it. Call me vain or whatever else but I really just feel like myself. Women sacrifice so much in having children and I see nothing wrong with reclaiming a bit of one's self.

Anonymous wrote:You really want fake boobs when you get to be 60years old, 70, etc.

You do know they only last 5-10 years and have to be replaced?

Imagine that unneeded surgery and associated risks with anathesia at an older age....

Also--I have a friend that has breast cancer and the doctor came outright and told her the implants are the reason it was missed early on.

NP here, someone could choose to keep them until 60 or 65 then when its time to replace them, take them out at THAT point.

You really want fake boobs when you get to be 60years old, 70, etc.

You do know they only last 5-10 years and have to be replaced?

Imagine that unneeded surgery and associated risks with anathesia at an older age....

Also--I have a friend that has breast cancer and the doctor came outright and told her the implants are the reason it was missed early on.

Anonymous wrote:14:57, the ridiculous thing in your post is the line"my brain is already fucked up and there's nothing I can do about that." Of course there is something you can do about that, you can get help. Not only are you depressed about your body but you feel deep shame about these feelings.

You will age. We all age. You will sag and get wrinkles and gain weight. You can fight it and get surgery after surgery and you will lose and at some point start to look manufactured (I really think women who go too far look terrible. And they have no awareness that they've gone too far.)

Or you can embrace it. Life is more joyful that way.

I definitely had body image issues when I was younger, I will not deny that. I don't think that any amount of therapy would have budged that one bit. What did help was getting older, having children, and having a husband who loves me unconditionally. I still care to an extent how I look (and I am very average looking and always have been) but I don't have the feelings of shame and self-loathing that I did when I was younger and objectively more attractive. I think there is a difference between wanting to fix something once every ten years and having work done constantly. It's been 8 years since I had the implants done and will probably be another 8 or so before I get anything else done. It's not really about fighting aging, as I am aging in many other ways that I could do something about but won't. It's just about wanting to be able to be okay with what I see in the mirror, and there are a few things that are particularly bothersome to me and I'm going to get them fixed if I can afford it.

You've gotten some great advice here OP. I am probably not the best person to be dispensing it, but I will just say that I have never regretted having the second set of implants done. They look and feel pretty natural (I have saline under the muscle FWIW) and I'm glad I have them every day. Most of the time I don't even think about it.

OP, I wouldn't describe myself as crunchy, but I'm also pretty far from vain - I get my hair cut with the same frequency you do, I've never had a pedicure, and I'm not into clothes or shoes or bags or makeup. I never thought I would consider cosmetic surgery, but I am thinking about it for a few years from now. Like you I lost a lot of weight (more than half my old body weight, actually), and even with the added muscle there are parts of my body that have loose, sagging skin that will never go away without surgery. My stomach and breasts are both pretty bad, but unless you saw me naked you'd never know they were a problem. My thighs, on the other hand, are terrible... and I hate that after putting such tremendous effort into revamping my life and health and body I'm still really embarrassed to wear a one-piece swimsuit. I'm 35 and have a baby, and I think once I'm sure I'm done having children I'm going to check into having some sort of lower body lift, or whatever would need to be done to fix my legs. I don't want to miss out on swim parties, beach time, water parks, etc. with my kid(s) because I'm too embarrassed by my legs to put on a swimsuit. I don't see it as a vanity thing (I don't need nor expect a perfect body), but rather something that has a big quality of life impact. That's reason enough for me to do it, despite how others might judge me for it.

"And yes, if I get them done, I'll hand in my crunchy card...but won't stop being crunchy!"

Good! Crunchies are the most annoying PITAs on the planet.

Anonymous wrote:No, it is like the vegetarian who eats meat a few times a year. That person is still a vegetarian. Just one that happens to not eat vegetarian a few times a year.

Please tell me you're kidding.

Anonymous wrote:PP. Removal is extremely easy. Why not just remove them? Its not even expensive and literally takes the doctor 15 min...I know this because I'm a nurse at a surgery center and assist in all kinds of cosmetic surgery. You could even do it under local. It is probably THE easiest procedure.

Still $2400 big ones. I am scared of only being under local- you think it would really be ok? My surgeon did say it would be fine & was up to me but I feel scared. Thanks for telling me this.