Have any of you had breast implants, and was it worth it? Any advice? I'm thinking about it.

As a man I'd like to just throw my two-penneth in and say that I find obviously fake boobs rather horrible. Sometimes you can't tell the difference by looking, but I have no idea how the feel.

nooooooooooooooo, dont do it !!

But thats just my opinion, if you want to and you think it will make you feel better about yourself then you do it :)

But I do know a girl who has had them, and i must admit they were well done. I wouldnt of known any different until i touched them !!

Please don't do it. I want to have a breast reduction. You can easily get a padded bra or little fakies, and you can still fit into anything you want to wear!

Please don't do it. I want to have a breast reduction. You can easily get a padded bra or little fakies, and you can still fit into anything you want to wear!

You want breast reduction??.....noooooo dont do that either !!

Nah again same advice applies, if it makes you feel better then have it done.

A few girls i know who are very busty say that they get bad backs, so if its for that reason i can understand.

To be honest its all personal opinion. What is making you think no? what ( other than the obvious) makes you want to do it?

I say if you want it, go for it.

I've wanted to get implants for a long time but haven't been able to afford them yet. Someday I will though. I think if it will make a woman feel better about her body and she wants to do it for her own reasons and noone else's then it's fine. I'd never do something like that to my body for any man and I've never understood women that go through plastic surgery of any kind because their man wants them to...that's just totally wrong!

I'd never do it. I'm only 5' 4" and if I had anything bigger than what I've got (an A cup) I'd be out of proportion. Apparently implants make it hard to detect for breast cancer. My sister, who must obviously think I'm lacking in that department, keeps warning me of the dangers.
Breast reductions are a good idea for relieving back aches. My friend's mother had to get her breast reduced, after losing the other one to cancer, and not being able to get a prosthesis(sp?) the same size. She reckoned afterwards that she wished she'd had them reduced ago.

Thank you guys for being so gentle with me, I was a bit worried that I'd get all these harsh replies telling me to not be so shallow, and do I have a low self esteem, etc, etc. Here's more info: Like Mariska I'm 5'4 as well, and an A cup. I've always wanted to be something bigger, (not huge, porn-star sizes, but maybe just a cup or two bigger) but the horror stories I've read/heard make me quite apprehensive. My husband thinks I'm perfectly proportioned and would prefer I didn't do anything about it. I'm torn between having big bouncy breasts or suffering scary side effects...

If i was getting breast surgery it would be a reduction....

but implants? Hmm. The idea just freaks me out a little, itd be great not having to wear a bra anymore. but i dont really like the idea of 2 bags of stuff stuck in my chest...

Implants are alright i suppose, if you can't tell that they are implants!
I've never seen a pair that look completely natural so far.

i've never touched an implanted breast, so i can't comment on that...

I've never seen a pair that look completely natural so far.

Ah, but how do you know?

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To me, if you feel you need to go through surgical procedures to feel better about your body, your problem is not your breast size. Do women really need sizeable boobs to feel feminine and desirable? As much as people don't like to admit it, it's all from the media enforced view that you have to 'fit-the-mould' in order to be considered attractive.

Beauty and femininity have fuck all to do with the size of your tits.

I'd never have implants, but if someone gave me money to do it I'd have breast augmentation done.

To me, if you feel you need to go through surgical procedures to feel better about your body, your problem is not your breast size. Do women really need sizeable boobs to feel feminine and desirable? As much as people don't like to admit it, it's all from the media enforced view that you have to 'fit-the-mould' in order to be considered attractive.

Beauty and femininity have fuck all to do with the size of your tits.

Not necessarily. There are always things around you in life that you do not like. Some of these things you can live with and don't really matter that much. Other things really do either annoy or upset you. This might not necessarily be a media thing, it might not even be a peer pressure thing.

I'm pretty confident in who I am, but I still know that there are parts of me I would like to change. Not entirely sure I would do even with the right amount of money, but that is because it doesn't affect me as bad. Many years ago, that would have been different.

I'm pretty confident in who I am, but I still know that there are parts of me I would like to change. Not entirely sure I would do even with the right amount of money, but that is because it doesn't affect me as bad. Many years ago, that would have been different.

But as you've grown as a person, you've come to realise that changing your physical appearance will not change who you are, and that such a superficial gesture as cosmetic surgery would prove you to be a shallow person? I can understand people using this surgery to correct things that happened to their body through disease or accident, or to further their careers, but if you need someone to cut you up, stick pieces of plastic into you, break and re-align your facial features just to feel better about the way you look, your problem runs much deeper than "I've got an ugly nose," or "My boos are too small."

It wouldn't prove me to be a shallow person at all. In fact, it would prove the opposite, that I wanted to improve myself. Sure, if I was to go around throwing millions away getting stuff down that didn't matter, fair enough. I think you are looking through the blinkered eyes of the media yourself by failing to realise that people can positively want to improve themselves via surgery.

Well I had my nose altered when I was in my mid 30s. It had always been a source of embarressment to me as a child - broad and flat ended - and my mother used to say it looked like a piece of putty flung against the wall. I lost a boyfriend because his friends used to tease him about me having an unattractive nose. I realise now that I'm better off without the superficial bastard but at the time I really loved him and it hurt like hell.
When I found out years later I could get rhinoplasty on medicare I decided to go for it. It wasn't a really big change - it just gave it a bit of definition that was lacking before - but I found out that I was really quite pretty after all. Call me shallow and superficial if you like, but it made a big difference to my self confidence, where I used to hate myself before.
My point being that sometimes your problem really is physical - not mental - and a bit of surgery can make the difference. And it's not always media related.

Implants are alright i suppose, if you can't tell that they are implants!
I've never seen a pair that look completely natural so far.

i've never touched an implanted breast, so i can't comment on that...

I have felt some implanted ones, and they felt okay. Kinda thicker than normal, but it was nice,not nasty feeling.

I would say if you get it done, get it done for you not for the world. ie, don't do it because you want to look the way you think the world thinks you should look. If however, you really aren't happy with how you look from a personal point of view then consider it. You say your husband is happy with it so consider if it would put a strain on the relationship as well, although it is your choice ultimately it affects your husband as well so it's worth getting his input and advice. Perhaps speaking to a counseller about how you feel about yourself in general would help too, is it your breast size or your personal view of yourself which you want to change?

As I said before doing it for yourself is one thing, but doing it for someone else is a total different story. I don't see how it would make a person shallow to have plastic surgery of any kind done. If a person isn't happy with their appearance and is able to afford doing something to improve it...go for it. In a way it really isn't much different than dying your hair, wearing contacts to change your eye color, or getting braces put on your teeth to make them straighter. Okay, I admit it's a bit of a stretch to compare those things to plastic surgery but it's all for the same purpose, to improve a person's appearance. Some people go to extremes with plastic surgery and I think it's totally ridiculous the people that have it done so they can look like their favorite movie stars. But there are others that only have one or two procedures done and are happy with it. Sure there are lots of things that I'd want to have "fixed" with surgery but I have enough sense about me to know that it would be ridiculous to go through with all of them. But a boob job....hell yeah one day I will have one done, so I feel better about the way my body looks... not to further my career, make my man happy, or to go along with what society thinks a woman should look like!

To me, if you feel you need to go through surgical procedures to feel better about your body, your problem is not your breast size. Do women really need sizeable boobs to feel feminine and desirable? As much as people don't like to admit it, it's all from the media enforced view that you have to 'fit-the-mould' in order to be considered attractive.

Beauty and femininity have fuck all to do with the size of your tits.

What about people who work out, im not on about people who do it to be healthy,im talking people who over egg the pudding?

Surely they are doing the same thing, but because it isn't surgery then people dont slate it.

I dont think anyone on here has reason, or right, to slag her choices off. We can put forward pro or negative thoughts. But we have no right to categorise this lass as doing it because she is trying to fit the media image of a woman.

Wow, I'm taken aback at the reactions against implants! What was originally a quick question to ask the girls if they've ever had or known someone who has had breast augmentation surgery has turned into quite a debate...

I'm grateful for all your comments. It's made me think about this even more. It seems that some of you think that this is a self-image/media induced insecurity thing, but I don't feel bad about myself, nor am I trying to please anyone BUT myself. I've had my teeth straightened a couple of years ago, and had my teeth whitened last year. It was wonderful and now I wish I had done it years ago! I know it's not exactly in the same league as an operation, which is why I'm trying to do as much research as I can about it and talk to as many people as possible.

I do believe most proper surgeons will give counselling prior to any procedure (thank you dominoid, that's a VERY wise idea), but I haven't even gotten to the stage where I'm shopping for surgeons yet, because I haven't made up my mind yet.

As for my husband, he's said time and again that he will help me to get whatever I want, as long as it makes me happy. He just doesn't like the idea of me being cut up. I'm a bit scared of that too, which is why I wanted to know if anyone had gone through with it...

So here's my next question: For you girls that are lucky and are naturally well endowed, do you find it a bother sometimes? Or is the ability to wear dresses with a lot of cleavage worth it? I remember someone saying that it would be nice to NOT have to wear a bra sometimes.

swimming with larger tits is a nightmare, they act like floats.

Hmm, are you serious? Sorry, because it sounds sort of funny and endearing at the same time. I don't swim that often, but I do run every other morning.

Its true, they just come to the top of the water, and look even more massive than they already are. It is really difficult to swim.

What about people who work out, im not on about people who do it to be healthy,im talking people who over egg the pudding?

Surely they are doing the same thing, but because it isn't surgery then people dont slate it.

Not at all, working out and building your body takes time, effort and dedication, and is an achievement very few attain.


I dont think anyone on here has reason, or right, to slag her choices off. We can put forward pro or negative thoughts. But we have no right to categorise this lass as doing it because she is trying to fit the media image of a woman.

Was I? I'd like someone to help me understand why someone who's comfortable in their body would be made happier by putting some bags of silicone into their chest. I know it would make me feel extremely uncomfortable knowing I have a foreign object stuck inside me.

But thats you, you dont want bags of silicone in your chest and thats fine, but other people might want it, and what right do you have to say that they are shallow for wanting it?

She has the right to make a choice about what she wants in her body, and thats cool.

I know it would make me feel extremely uncomfortable knowing I have a foreign object stuck inside me.

Really ? I need to requestion Liontamer about that incident again...

Seriously though, people are always doing things to better themselves, like buy clothes, shoes, hair extensions. Surgergy is merely an extension of that.

Hi Hi!

First, the only thing I have against implants is that they can make breastfeeding impossible, and can reduce sensitivity in the nipple area, especially if you increase your size to the point where your nipples have to be moved to put them in the right place, because that severs the milk ducts. So if you are considering having a family, you need to look into that aspect of it before going ahead if you would want to breastfeed.

I dont have implants, I have quite enough chest to cope with, but I would like the fact that they would remain perky, as I require industrial strength support and its not a pretty choice in the old underwear ranges unless you plan on spending half your salary on knickers.

People have implants for a variety of reasons, but mostly its because they simply are not happy with themselves and want to do something to change it so that they are. Just as some men prefer large breasts and others smaller ones, and some are merely ecstatic to have the opportunity to place hands on some, it would not be unreasonable for women to believe that it matters what size your breasts are, or for them to also have a preference as to how theirs should be. Technology has given women to change the things they are not happy with, for a price, and if the choice is between living in a persistently dissatisfied state and not liking a particular part of yourself or taking steps to change what you can to make yourself happier, then I know which option I would go for every time.

If you are too fat, you can lose weight, if you are too thin, you can gain weight. If you dont like short hair, you can grow yours long, if you dont like long hair, you can cut it off. The only way to naturally increase your breast size is to get pregnant, or put on a lot of weight, the former being a temporary arrangement and the latter being not so good for your health. I dont see that its as much of a deal as some of you are making it out to be. We can live in 1950 with the accompanying technology and ideals, or we can live in 2004 and be glad we have the freedom of informed choice.

i've seen lots of fakes that look (and feel) fake. I know a woman who had them done and had a lot of problems with them (it is a surgical procedure, obviously, and has associated risks)

i would say don't bother

actually Uber, i've heard that implants don't interfere with breastfeeding, but i would think that implants would make performing breast tumor self-tests nearly impossible.

i've seen lots of fakes that look (and feel) fake. I know a woman who had them done and had a lot of problems with them (it is a surgical procedure, obviously, and has associated risks)

i would say don't bother

there are alot of problems, same with any surgery, and your best to have the implants replaced every 10 years, as they can go 'off' sometimes



actually Uber, i've heard that implants don't interfere with breastfeeding, but i would think that implants would make performing breast tumor self-tests nearly impossible.

As far as i know you usually can breastfeed with implants, but you can't with a reduction as they cut the nipple off and fix it back on. I know my friend breastfed, although i havent known anyone else in this situation so i cannot say iknow anything else on experience.

hmmm... good support bras for running are either expensive/hard to find....

there are alot of problems, same with any surgery, and your best to have the implants replaced every 10 years, as they can go 'off' sometimes

Really? That's horrible. That means that implants are a very big financial comittment, and also make you reliant on a service you can't guarantee will be available in 10 years.

What I should explain better by off is that implants can harden. It all depends on how much scar tissue forms, if there is alot inside it will adhere to the implant.

Whilst they will usually take it out and clean it up, it doesnt cause a physical problem, its just that it isn't quite 'right'

I think its the same with anything they implant in your body though, it has to be renewed after so long, because we cant build as good as the natural materials we have to hand.

The size of the financial commitment is a personal thing. To some people this is a drop in the ocean, to others its a years wages, also, these things always come down in price as time goes on.

I'm 4ft11 and a D cup, but I sure as hell dont look it due to my rather rotund bottom. Only get implants if thats the only surgery you want. If theres anything more you want done, its better to see a councellor.

You might want to have a look at this http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives.html

It certainly gives you an idea of what to avoid. I wouldn't have any elective surgery myself but this is mostly because I am a devout coward.