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It's time for us to meet our next guest. Welcome Kelly.
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So, Kelly, you had this kind of surgery, as well?
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Do you want to tell us a little bit about it?
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Well, when I was 17 years old,
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I had to go to see a doctor.
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I was a bit different to other young girls
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because I didn't have a left breast grow.
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There was no breast tissue there at all.
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I left it for a little while,
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thought maybe I just need to grow a bit more.
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Started getting right breast tissue, but still nothing on the left.
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So, my mum saw that I was getting down,
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wasn't interacting with other girls with girl talk,
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wearing baggy clothes, really down and depressed,
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not wanting to really do much.
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So we started seeking doctors' advice.
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Went to see a surgeon. He agreed to do breast augmentation.
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But because there was no breast tissue there at all,
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he had to fit an expander so my skin would stretch without having stretch marks.
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And with that procedure, it's a little bag gets put
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inside your breast with a little port underneath your arm
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and saline solution is slowly put into that bag to expand to the skin.
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Had that done every six weeks for about two years.
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Once they'd got to the size
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that they thought was appropriate for my body,
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I sat down with the surgeon and he decided,
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"OK, we're going to remove the expander
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"and replace the expander with a silicon implant."
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It was suggested that one was put in the right side,
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as well, to make them look symmetrical.
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The procedure went fine. I was over the moon with the results.
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I felt like I was a normal girl.
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About four or five years down the line,
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I started noticing changes.
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My bras weren't fitting me properly. They felt hard.
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It got to the point of where I was in excruciating pain.
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We just actually have a picture of your breasts here.
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So, the right one is the capsular contracture.
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That was like a rock.
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When I lay down, it would hit my chin. Wow.
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And the left one is what they call a Snoopy's nose,
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which the implant is there but my breast tissue
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that would have been there has drooped.
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It's just like skin hanging from my implant.
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And so what did you do to correct it? I ended up going to one surgeon.
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I took my bra off and he just looked at me and went,
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"I'm going to do the surgery."
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So he removed the implants, replaced them and this is where I am today.
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I'm still not happy because they don't look how I want them to look.
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We do have a picture of your breasts now. But I'm out of pain.
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So, they're still very different. It's just one of them things.
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I would like to be able to save and have an uplift.
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Yeah. But it costs a lot of money.
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Rachel, how common is something like this?
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So, capsular contracture does affect some women with breast implants.
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That capsule closes down.
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So, you imagine you've got a balloon in a box that's shrinking
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and it's going to outpouch and cause irregularities.
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It's not always as far down the line as we've heard.
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There are various stages.
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So, there is palpable capsule
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followed by changing the shape of the breast.
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And pain is really the very last stage of that process.
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Well, thank you, Rachel.
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Kelly, thank you so much for telling your story.