I had diep surgery back in June (it’s now October) and I’m happy with my decision to go that route. My one complaint was the shape of my reconstructed breast; it looked very flat and wide, as if it had been pressed on and just stayed that way. This past week I had revision surgery, with the expectation that the flatness would be dealt with. Imagine my immense disappointment when after the surgery my breast looks almost exactly the same. I’m trying to tell myself that it’s only been a week and the shape is likely due to swelling, and that eventually my breast will round out. I have a post-op appointment in a couple of days but I’m kind of in a panic that I just went through a needless surgery and that I’m going to have to go through even more to get the results I’m hoping for. I know it’s never going to look perfect, but the surgeon couldn’t possibly think anyone would be happy with this flat breast shape. Has anyone had a similar experience, or able to give me some reassurance?
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So you have one natural breast and one diep breast? Yeah symmetry is tough to pull off with that. Anyway I had a double mastectomy and then DIEP. My breasts are also rather flat. But they’re round and from the front are symmetrical so I’m fine with that. I never went back for the revision though since I was happy the first time around. From what I understand they could have made them less flat with some fat grafting but I didn’t want them bigger nor did I want another surgery and major healing so I said to hell with it. But I’m surprised on your end that fat grafting didn’t help any. That’s usually the point where things can be finessed. Do you have a chance to have a second revision?