# Breast Implants - Advice Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2000, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029 "2000-09-05T01:40:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Michi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@Michi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michi)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/21 "2000-09-05T18:21:46Z")
You are right Turp, I must be the only woman out of the millions who have had this surgery to have a good out come. No hardness, scarring, unnatural look. If I didn’t tell everyone I had this done, no one would ever guess. And my boobs don’t make me look fat at all, in fact they make me look slimmer. Guess I must be a freak. ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/22 "2000-09-05T19:28:54Z")
Your story’s not unique, **Michi**. I’ve known several women that have had the surgery and only one has had any real complaints. It’s probably worth noting that only one went from an A/B cup to a D cup, the rest went up only one size. If the desire is to increase about one cup size, have the implants placed under the muscle. There will be more initial discomfort, as well as a longer adjustment period, but the look and feel will be more natural as this type of enhancement basically takes what is already there and makes it more prominent. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/23 "2000-09-05T20:50:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michi \* > \*\*You are right Turp, I must be the only woman out of the millions who have had this surgery to have a good out come. > No hardness, scarring, unnatural look. If I didn’t tell everyone I had this done, no one would ever guess. And my boobs don’t make me look fat at all, in fact they make me look slimmer. Guess I must be a freak. \*\* No, millions of women only think that they have had a good outcome. They are so happy to be a D or C instead of an A that they don’t notice that many people can tell that they are fake and laugh at them. The only freakish thing about you is the delusion that you looked bad without fake breasts. I was trying to say before that small breasts are NOT unattractive. I don’t see why so many women think that they need to improve themselves with unecessary surgery. And I was also trying to illustrate with my stripper-friend example that even men don’t find small-breasted women unattractive. I think if the girl in the OP whose friend feels she needs fake boobs to feel better about herself, then they are not going to make her happy. To feel that insecure probably means there is something else causing the low self-esteem. ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/24 "2000-09-06T02:26:33Z")
Thank you posting this question, I have been considering having this procedure done also. I am not looking for larger breast just ones that stay up. After three children and of course with age, they arent what they used to be. I will check out all the links everyone has provided. Just give your friend your support in what ever she decides. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/25 "2000-09-06T02:48:10Z")
After breast-feeding her son, her breasts flattened out and sagged similar to a National Geographic spread. They weren’t completely flat, but close…and considering she had been a D cup, they were _long_ flat things. She had surgery to get them lifted, and I have to tell you, if _mine_ get like that after breast feeding, hell _yes_ I’ll get them lifted. Where I think she’s nuts is she had them _augmented_ as well…from a D to a DD. On a 5’4" frame. Yup…_nuts_. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/26 "2000-09-06T03:21:10Z")
A nurse friend of mine told me that the enlargements come in three sizes: Large, huge and burlesque And now, my opinion, since you didn’t ask for it…it would be a big waste of money and an unnecessary medical risk. PS- I’ve seen some “done” boobs that look perfect. I wish I could tell you more regarding their resilience, etc., but they belonged to the sister of my then-girlfriend, and I wasn’t allowed to research the matter any further than the brief visual checking out I gave them when everyone went skinny dipping. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/27 "2000-09-06T04:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ruffian \* > \*\*Where I think she’s nuts is she had them _augmented_ as well…from a D to a DD. On a 5’4" frame. > Yup…_nuts_. \*\* Hey **Ruffian** …aww, never mind. 😃 Personally, this trend of women running out and getting breast implants terrifies. I won’t lie; I LOVE big boobs, although I would never judge someone on them alone. But guys, consider this: how long will it be until women put two and tow together and start expecting _us_ to have dick surgery?? I for one would promise to be with an AA-cup girl for the rest of my life if it meant my weiner would always be considered sufficient. ---
**Author:** ![Michi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@Michi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michi)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/28 "2000-09-06T08:09:36Z")
I went from having nothing to a B cup. I don’t think that is so unusually large. My chest resembled that of a 12 year old boy’s. I thought it unattractive. I find it unattractive in other women. There was something I could do about my chest, so I did. Now I like the way I look. I don’t think I have any issues that I was trying to deal with through plastic surgery. If someone doesn’t like plastic surgery, don’t have it. But don’t try to psychoanalyze those of us who do. I’m sorry if I sound annoyed, but frankly, I am. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/29 "2000-09-06T14:20:51Z")
What I don’t understand is why the implants have to be a shape that is so completely unrelated to the normal shape of the real thing. I was looking at a…um…pictorial of two young women (I was, of course, forced to look at gunpoint); one had implants and the other didn’t, and even though the woman with no additives or preservatives had the smaller breasts of the two of them, they were SO much more appealing than the unnatural, quasi-spherical fishbowls on the other woman it wasn’t even close. Why can’t they at least _ **approximate** _ the teardrop shape of _la poitrine naturel_? Michi, please understand that I’m not talking about the way YOU look, which is yummy (and I’m not just talking about your…ahem… rack, either, you totally alluring thing you). Judging from the pictures I’ve seen of you, your surgeon did a hell of a job… grrrrrowwwwwl. I completely support your decision to do it, too… it sounds like you did it for the right reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Akatsukami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029/30 "2000-09-06T14:36:35Z")
**Blue Twylight** writes: > [@](#): > > A friend of mine has decided that she wants implants. She asked me if I could do a little research on the procedure, since she doesn’t have Internet access. > I tried doing a yahoo search, but I was getting mainly porn. I was wondering if anyone here has any stories, personal experiences, opinions, or just knows about if from a medical standpoint. I would also appreciate some good links For the largely pro-implant side, you may want to go to the Breast Augmentation and Breast Implants Web at [http://www.implantinfo.com/](http://www.implantinfo.com/) (for some reason, enclosing this URL in vBulletin URL tags causes this message to be corrupted). Naturally, you and your friend will take the information with a grain of salt (or salt substitute if you are on a low-sodium diet), the more so as this site appears to be largely, if not entirely, sponsored by plastic surgeons. For the anti-implant side, read alt.support.breast-implant (which you can do via [DejaNews](http://www.deja.com/), as well as by tapping Usenet directly. Be aware that some of the posters on a.s.b-i a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and the theories that they discuss are not always well founded (and that’s putting it politely). I _explicitly disclaim_ any responsibility for the actions taken if a.s.b-i posters decide that you’re not toeing the party line strictly enough and feel therefore that you should be harassed by mail bombing, lawsuits, or having your personal information researched and posted on the Web (and, yes, that _has_ happened). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breast-implants-advice-please/32029.md?page=1)