LADIES ONLY

Hi ladies. I'm a newbie to the posts and have a question for all my fellow big busted sisters. After having WLS and losing a significant amount of weight, i've heard that your breasts drop to your knees. Is this true?

Hey Girlfriend, I haven't even had surgery yet and mine are already mid thigh! I am a 42DDD when I can get 'em up where they belong, but either the ruts in my shoulders are getting deeper or gravity is working against me, cause they seldom make it that high any more. Time will do that to you with or without wls. I really don't care if they go down or not, at my age they are just in the way anymore, so maybe after surgery I can just roll 'em up and fill my bra or just tuck 'em in my waistband. I am just anxious to be able to go out with friends and not have everyone see my meal displayed all across the shelf I carry in front of me!

I was a 48 DD before surgery, I am now a 42 C...and unfortunately, yes, they are a big droopy...I liken them to two tennis balls inside pantyhose...LOL...I think this is the majority of experiences based on the people I know as well. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!

Hey Kym, Did you get those boulder holders??? I sent them priority. Just wanted to make sure you got them ok April

Hi Yvette and welcome to our board. I am having plastic surgery tomorrow on my tummy. I started researching this surgery of losing weight in 2004 while confined to a power wheelchair from a fractured hip and pelvic. I weighed 299 at the time. When I met Dr. Colquitt in 9/05 I weighed in 277. By that time I was newly diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia and on chemo pills. As long as my blood work was in normal range he would do the surgery. My surgery was 1/9/06. Today I weigh 122. As to your question, I couldn't find a bra to fit me without feeling confined and hard to breath. I had copd. Yes, they will shrink and you may or may not lose the firmnest. I have no firmness to mine. My nipples have to be constantly rolled to get my breasts to stay in a sports bra. I have no firmness, just saggy boobs. If I raise my arms over my head they fall out under the sports bra. I play tuck-in all day. I'm not worried. I'm 53 years young. But bend over and watch them swing like one of those jokes that come online. They aren't sexy by no means. But at least I still have them, tomorrow I won't even have a naval. The VA Hospital in Nashville will do the tummy, they have to get permission to do my thighs, but my arms, boobs, and the no butt, is considered cosmetic and they won't touch it. May God travel with you on your new journey. Always, Kathy

My boobies deflated I had a bra that fit after surgery. I put it on here while back and it looked like 2 water balloons had a slow leak and were pretty much deflated!!! I had a breast reduction 2 yrs ago. Best thing I ever did. Had I not gotten the reduction, the shape of my breasts, they would have drug my knees! Like tube socks with tennis balls like Kym or someone said!

Mine have gotten smaller but only as my band size has also shrunk. I started as a 48DD and am now a 34DD. When I went for a mammogram the other day, the radiologist told me that the tech was looking at the comparisons of my scan from last year and the new one and asked if I'd had a breast reduction. That's when they looked at my paper and saw how much weight I had lost. I have had some changes in density so they sag a bit more than they did before. I figure I'll just wear a good bra until I can get them nipped and tucked back where they belong. FYI - it is easier to find bras that fit now that I've lost weight. And, the straps stay up on my shoulders now.

I'm just a little over two months out, and yes this is a true statement. I am already sick of people making comments about my breast. I bought a new bra about three weeks ago, because some of my co-workers told me I was saggin worse than normal. So I went down a cup. Now they are telling me the same thing again. I just bought a new bra. This is going to get expensive. Plus I wish people would stop looking at my breast. I'm really sick of hearing about my breast from people that have no right commenting on them. Sorry I went off like that, this has been a sore subject for me this week. Just ask my husband. Although my husband did tell me (jokingly) the saggy skin under my arms now takes away from my breast. So that made me feel better......NOT So yes your breast do deflate and drop to your knees after WLS. Charlotte

Charlotte, I am going on 13 weeks out and I have had both positive and negative feedback since I went back to work 3 weeks ago. I have noticed that the ones that have the negative comments are probably the ones that do not care about my health and definatly do not care about my well-being, so I just truly do not care, yes it hurts, but I guess now that I am losing, I am gaining self-confidence that I did not have before and I can tell them to it, however I am a professional, not to mention much nicer, and I only think it!!! So do not let them bother you, they are not going to say anything positive and if that is all they can find wrong then your going WONDERFUL!! As far as my breasts, they have always been large and sagging since I was in my teens. My OBGYN has always been on my to have a reduction and I have refused thinking I would loose weight. My breast have caused my shoulders and spine to start curving from the weight, I am hoping afterwards, insurance will cover it, due to my history, my OBGYN has said for years he could get it covered, I hope it is true. Shelia

Definitely wait until you reach goal and then let the insurance give you nice perky ones! I think when I get ready for plastics, I'm gonna ask Santa (you know, I do have an inside track with him ) I just want them back where they belong.