Advice on feeling for lumps after implants?

Hello everyone.

Am 30 years old with 2 children and am booked in for my consultation with surgeon on Nov 10th. Have breast-fed 2 children and my breast tissue seems to have just disintigrated if thats possible?!?! Not even left with spaniels ears - just two small flaps of empty skin. As I have lost weight since having my second 5 years ago they have disappeared even more and my whole body just looks completely out of proportion now. My boobs are now completely different sizes as well. Has absolutely killed my sex life with my husband and can't get out of my head how he could find them attractive in any way. Husband is so so supportive. Says he loves me as I am but would fully support me if I decided to go ahead with op as well.
Am a primary school teacher so scheduling will be rather tricky as am going to have to time my op for the beginning of a school holidays. Really hoping they might be able to operate the week before xmas as that will give me two weeks before I have to go back to school.
Has anyone found that having an implant behind the muscle makes it easier to feel any lumps or bumps in your boobs? As i just have empty flaps, I find it really tricky to feel for lumps as all i can feel through my bobs is my rib bones (not because i am skinny!!!!). Hoping that with a implant behind the muscle, it will give surface to feel against and push any breast tissue i do have left forwards?

Would love some advice/ your experiences

Beckyboo.

beckyboo wrote:Has anyone found that having an implant behind the muscle makes it easier to feel any lumps or bumps in your boobs? As i just have empty flaps, I find it really tricky to feel for lumps as all i can feel through my bobs is my rib bones (not because i am skinny!!!!). Hoping that with a implant behind the muscle, it will give surface to feel against and push any breast tissue i do have left forwards?

Would love some advice/ your experiences

Self-examination

Breast self-examination is an essential activity for every woman. One out of every ten or eleven women in the United States will develop breast cancer during her lifetime, and breast self-examination is one of the keys to early detection and cure.

Ask your gynecologist, family physician, or plastic surgeon to demonstrate optimal techniques. Perform breast self-examination every month about two weeks after the beginning of your menstrual period.

Your breast implants should not interfere with self-examination because the implants are behind, not within, the breast tissue. All of your breast tissue is in front of your implants and is totally accessible for examination by you or your physician. In fact, provided you don’t have excessive firmness from capsular contracture, many physicians feel that breast examination is easier with implants in place.

Your breasts will feel different after you have implants. If you are thin and can feel your ribs with your fingers, you will probably be able to feel at least some part of your implants behind your breast regardless of the type of implants that you have. Wait until about three months after surgery to allow all swelling to resolve, and then ask your surgeon to demonstrate how to feel the edges of your implant in the lower or outer breast. Once you recognize the implant, you can distinguish it from anything else that is abnormal in either breast.

The larger your implants, the more you are likely to feel portions of the implant as you get older, because larger implants can cause more stretch and thinning that adds to the normal thinning most women experience as they age.

Quote taken from HERE sweetness.

I just examine my breasts in the same way as I did before I had implants, lying down, arm behind my head and using firm circular pressure starting with my armit then working up and down right along the breast. xxx

Hi beckyboo. I'm Pre op so can't really give any relevant advice bit just wanted to say hello and that you're not alone. Lots of us ladies here are either in the same situation (like me, 2 kids, loving husband but zero self esteem because of the state of myboobs) or they have experienced it already and come out changed inside and out the other side. The ladies here are so wonderful in their advice and support so no matter what the issue we are all here for each other.

I too am hoping to get the op before Xmas due to hub having time off to help with the kids etc. I have 2 consultations on Saturday so it's looking like we are pretty much going to go through the same thing at the same time! Are you feeling excited at the prospect?

Love Dee xxx

So excited but terrified at the same time. Keep feeling guilty thinking I should be spending the money on the kids instead, but then on the other hand know i will be a happier, more confident mummy afterwards.