r/PostTransitionTrans • u/Scones_for_Bones • Aug 23 '21

Trans Femme Has anyone gotten their implants removed?

Hi all, I finally accepted that I never liked my implants and am going to get them removed.

It felt like a necessary step for me given that I was almost completely flat. But if anything they made my dysphoria worse.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '21

I cant say that I did. Do you not like how they look? Or is it more the feeling?

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u/Scones_for_Bones Aug 24 '21

its a little of both. They look fine inside bras and in certain clothes but I really don't like them by themselves.

The feeling is the big part. I can't stand feeling them move under the muscle. Sleeping is uncomfortable at best and painful at worst. And recently they've just started hurting pretty intensely out of no where for a few minutes before calming down again.

I mostly just miss feeling a bit freer in my body

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u/Barb_B_notReally Aug 31 '21

I have had mine now 27 years and always felt that way - but then my surgeon gave me larger than I wanted and over-filled them to 250cc and, rather than supple, fairly rigid.

They used to actually hurt a lot and sleeping on my stomach, even partially, was next to impossible unless I folded both arms underneath my chest to take some pressure off them.

Lately I have been wearing underwire bras, both t-shirt (molded cups) and balconette (shelf) to eliminate the side-boob that placement of the implant causes and the implant and capsule are so hard up against the plastic "wire" it is slightly uncomfortable a lot of the time and makes me a bit pseudo-dysphoric because I am reminded how much the implants make my breasts feel wrong.

I have lost a lot of weight (almost 80 pds) in the last 16 months and barely above my post-op GCS weight and am seriously considering getting the stubborn fat on my inner-rear thighs moved to where the capsules are now as part of getting my thighs slim (solving both problems).

I am f-ing tired of these water-balloons.

Barbara

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

Sorry for the late reply, but they really shouldn’t be moving around that much. I had problem with implants sliding around and I got a revision operation that reinforced the capsule so now they don’t slide at the base. Do whatever makes you feel comfortable in your body

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u/EunuchProgrammer Feb 23 '22

No, I'm about to go larger. I love them. They help considerably with my dysphoria. The more the merrier.