A patient and Dr. Robert Whitfield discuss life after explant surgery, including the emotional toll of losing double D implants and dropping to a C cup. The patient says she wouldn't put the implants back in for any amount of money, and credits her partner Michael with helping her through the sadness and identity shift during recovery.
Here's the weird thing, and I mean this wholeheartedly. If you had paid me $100 million, I still would not put those implants back in. Like, that's. That's the mind fuck of it, is that I was like, ew, get these implants away from me. I don't want them. And when they were out and you go from a double D to a C, and it's weird, I still don't want them back in. So the feeling is very like. It's like you can't grab the feeling because you don't know what the feeling is to. Does that make sense?
It's like, you know, you're not. The balance is gone, right? So you had this for a long period of time. It was part of you.
It's like a narrative and an identity.
And then when you take it away, there's no. It's not this. It's not balanced anymore. And you have to balance out, you know, the system, if you will. And obviously, that's a little bit deeper. And it's hard for people to get to that point. And people get extremely frustrated, extremely sad, sometimes very emotional in the office. And that's why it's great to have someone like Michael who's very supportive because we can only do so much in a very short appointment time, but afterwards, that's where he can be supportive of you, just like other significant others and spouses are supportive of their, you know, situation.
And he was. And I think.
Let's talk about how great I am for the next 10 minutes.
What you did do that really helped is you looked at me and you said you made the 100% percent right decision. And now that I'm to the other side, I'm like, yes, I feel so much better. But I think that it is important to have a supportive partner.
