One week following the first expansion, Debbie went in for her second injection of saline; again,
100cc's were injected into each breast. Debbie's doctor would have
liked her to have more time to stretch in between expansions, but
because Debbie was planning to get married soon, following her implant
surgery, she wanted to move the process along a little quicker. As she
had after the first expansion, she began to have some back pain and
pressure afterward. This was a natural consequence of the skin
stretching. Before her expansion appointments, she took an
over-the-counter painkiller, such as ibuprofen, to help ease the
soreness and back pain. Debbie learned quickly to follow her nurse's
advice and stay ahead of the pain.
Before
she began the reconstruction process, Debbie had decided upon size C
implants; this meant her surgeon would need to expand her chest tissue
to a size D so it could easily accommodate the permanent C implants.
(The skin would eventually conform to the size C implants.) Although
her physician asked her to consider staying smaller, Debbie desperately
wanted to return to the same size she had been. Unfortunately, after
her second expansion, as soon as Debbie left the doctor's office, she
began to feel distressing pain - different and more intense than the
discomfort she had previously felt. Once she got home, she was in
tears, and her fiancé and parents rushed to her side. She could barely
move from the odd stretching sensation and back distress. Her back,
side, and chest muscles felt like they were "ripping." She immediately
returned to her surgeon's office and he removed 50 cc's of saline on
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