My MYA experience – op day!!

Hey girls,

So I said I’d do a post about my op (last Saturday 24th March) so here goes.

I arrived at the Fitzroy for 7:30am, where myself and my Dad signed in. We then were shown to the downstairs waiting room, where I waited no longer then 5 minutes before a nurse came and showed me to my room.

From then I was told to get dressed into my sexy paper pants, compression socks and gown, and to do a wee sample so they could do a pregnancy test. Again, without about 5 mins the nurse came back, did my pregnancy test (negative) and all my stats (blood pressure etc). She then went and said the surgeon would be in to draw on me soon and prep me for surgery.

By 8am my surgeon (Mr Giannas) had come in to greet me and had drawn on me and spent time going through everything with me. I signed the form, and he said see you in surgery … Eeekkkk!

The anesthatist then came in and explained what he would be doing whilst in surgery and put my mind hugely at ease (I’m a very anxious person). The nurse came back after and weighed me, and then I went off to surgery.

I got on the table and by this point was in full on panic mode. I’ve never had an anaesthetic and was so scared something awful would happen – nothing did!!! The team then proceeded to calm me down and stick heart rate monitors all over me. The anaesthetist then put my canula in (I didn’t feel a thing even though It usually really hurts) and then said I’m going to give you something to relive the anxiety, it’s going to feel like you’ve had quite a lot to drink and within seconds I felt wasted and was charting away to everyone haha!! After that he asked me when my next holiday was, and before I could finish I was gone.

Next thing I know, I’m waking up in recovery, bawling my eyes out and screaming at the nurses “IM ALIVEEE” lmaooo (was convinced I would never wake up). I calmed down and drank about 10 pints of water as I had dry mouth to extreme levels ha! I had to stay in recovery for ages as I have cardiovascular problems and my HR was so high and took ages to come down!!

Finally, my HR came down to a safe level and I was wheeled back to my room, where I was delighted to see my Dad!! The nurse did my stats, gave me a sick bowl and told me she would bring me some tea and toast.

I felt fine up until this point, no pain nothing (they gave me morphine in recovery so that probs helped haha). As soon as the nurse brought my tea in, I was felt sick, and then was sick for the next two days only managing sips of water. She told me to take it easy, and to call her when I needed to go for a wee.

The next few hours passed, and I kept falling asleep in between throwing up. I was scared because I didn’t need a wee, but knew I had to go before being discharged. I called the nurse and forced myself to go.

The time reached 4pm and my surgeon was still in back to back surgery, so the doctor came to see me and said if I wanted to self discharge then I was fit enough to do so. So I did, it had been a long day and I just wanted home comforts.

Got home and took some painkillers (robaxin muscle relaxer and do-hydramol). Personally I found these did nothing so I switched to cocodomol.

Days 1-4 were the worst, I wanted to rip the implants out and actually really regretted having it done. I defo underestimated the pain. So ladies, make sure you have someone to help you because my god you’ll need it. Especially if you are a Mum with a young child like me!!! I was convinced I’d be in pain forever and that I’d made a huge mistake.

I’m now a week post op and I feel great (compared to earlier this week anyway haha). Still struggling with arm movements and am still very tight with sore incisions, but each day is getting better! I’m finding if I do too much, I end up in agony again and found that my stitches become very sore and tight if I over do it. I’m not taking any painkillers unless it’s before bed (to aid sleep) and haven’t taken any in the day since Tuesday.

I go back to work on Wednesday and am really scared about that and driving, but hey I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.

1000000000% the best thing I have ever done for my self confidence and cannot wait to see the end result after the drop and fluff woooo! Went from just nipples and skin to feeling like a woman! If you’re thinking about doing it, then defo do it!! I’ve wanted this since I was a little girl, and 2018 was the year I made my dream a reality! Can’t recommend MYA enough!!

If anyone had any questions, please feel free to add me/message me!! I hope this has helped anyone who wanted to see someone else’s op day experience, as I know similar posts defo helped me :)!!!

Oh btw I had 325cc in each breast and as I said before, I was like a 10 year old boy haha!! I’ll post some photos when I feel confident enough to do so, they look amazing but it’s a big thing to do (anxious person haha)

Let me know if you have any questions 🙂 xxxx

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ps fully aware of spelling mistakes but don’t know how to edit haha 😉 oh well!

Enjoy xxx

Fab!! So pleased for you. Sounds like you’ve had a positive experience which is brilliant. Hope your recovery continues to go well and can’t wait to see the end results 🙂 xx

Glad it all went ok hun. I think it’s totally normal to go through that ‘omg what have I done’ moment and regret. I had that the first few hours after the op as pain killers wernt strong enough but once I had stronger ones I was fine and no more regret and happy! I’m on day 4. Defo gets better everyday as you said 🙂
Happy healing hun.

Thanks girls :). I feel 100000% great about doing it now and the initial regret was due to pain and not being able to do anything! I feel so much better already and I can’t wait to be able to wear dresses and low cut tops as apposed to baggy t shirts all the time!! Hope your ops/healing goes/went well xxx

Update –

I still wake up every morning in agony (morning boobs are the worst) but the tightness/being sore is getting easier by the day! I still feel I will be unable to drive when I go back to work in 3 days, but other than that as long as I take it easy, I’m slowly getting back to myself yay!! Literally can’t walt until I can pick my little girl up too, she has been amazing and so gentle but I feel awful that I can’t cuddle her properly, hoping I’ll be able to sort of lift her soon!!! I feel quite exhausted still as I’m not sleeping, but I’m sure once I can sleep on my back I’ll get back into my sleeping routine!! Not taking pain meds any more either so that’s helped the extra tiredness and sick feeling!! So basically girls, it gets worse before it gets better, however each day will be so much better than the day before; so hang I there and be patient 🙂 my skin is still really bruised, so I’m assuming once that has gone that I’ll be less tight??? I’ll keep the girls that are following my journey posted :).

Ps – have my first post op appt on Wednesday after work, does anyone know what happens at this? I know I’ll have my dressings changed but is that it?? Xxx

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