24 Yrs Old, 5'8" 135lbs, No Kids, Silicone with Dr. David Kim in Beverly Hills

So that lovely exposed stitch that I spoke of in my last update went on to become something much more concerning. Dr. Kim had told me not to worry about it, to stop touching it and let it be. So, in order to keep myself from touching it, I just didn't look at my incisions for five days. On Christmas, I decided to look at my incisions and see how they were doing before bed. I pulled up my boob with the once exposed stitch and there was a large scab. I lightly ran my finger over it -barely touching it- and the skin pulled up and came off completely... Immediately blood was visible, to which I applied pressure to stop the bleeding. Well that pressure I applied, to my surprise, pushed out a good amount of puss. My face must have gone white with panic... I applied pressure until the puss was no longer coming out, and cleaned the wound, dressed it and went to bed. The next day I removed more blood and puss, and dressed it again. I contacted Dr. Kim with these pictures and he said to just keep it clean. Eventually the wound healed up. But that's not all the fun... No, no. I had beatiful bright red and dark purple strecth marks forming on my new additions. And they were itchy in a way that you simply can't satisfy. He told me to use strecth mark cream. So I bought the Cocoa Butter Stretch Marks Intense Therapy. It made my boobs super oily, I could grease a small pan with them... And it didn't seem to be helping. For two weeks I only had stretch marks on the outer sides of my boobs and the bottoms. I started puting that cream on and not only did it not help the existing stretch marks, but I got more, which were forming on the tops of my boobs on the cleavage. Great, visible to all. I saw him recently and he was like "Oh, ya... Those are red. Just use strecth mark cream." To which I replied that actually made them worse... To which he informed me that "there are lasers to remove stretch marks while they are still red." Well I'm going to be paying off these $9,000 dollar boobs for a while, so a laser right now probably isn't an option. Thanks though.
He told me 1 out of 100 girls get stretch marks...

I've started to use organic extra virgin coconut oil on them every night, and oddly, that seems to be helping more than anything. If not improving them, it is at least helping them to not get much worse.

I'm at four weeks, and I am feeling more squishy, but I also have some issues. I have a Mondors Cord that seems to get more painful as time passes. Dr. Kim told me that warm compressed would be okay but to try not to soak the incisions. Also, I wanted someone to check out my incisions just to make sure everything was okay, so my mom took a look (my implants are large and don't move that much, so I am unable to look at them myself). Shockingly, my left breast had an issue *that was sarcasm, as it has been the left boob from day one with all the problems*. She saw a string poking out as well as another hole on the same incision like another one may be trying to come out. We then looked at my other breast, and along the incision there were some dark spots, almost like something was behind the skin, and the skin was a little white around those dark spots. I did try to pull the stitch a little bit, to see if I could cut it, because it is irritating me, which I'm sure makes me sound like an idiot, but I've read of a lot of doctors doing the same thing. Seeing the Dr on Wednesday.

My rash is gone, after being on prednisone, a steroid, for two and a half weeks. I still get really bad morning boob, and I also get pretty tight throughout the day. Trying to massage as much as time allows. Still sleeping upright and that is absolutely horrific. I have not had a night where I haven't woken up at least once, because I've slid down into an awkward position. But the pillow I chose is super comfortable and I'm super glad I have it, as it has been my saving grace. Super plush and soft and a nice slope. It's the 4-in-1 wedge pillow from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. It was $99 full priced, but who doesn't have a 20% off coupon to BB&B laying around? Taking 1,000 IUs of Vitamin E and day, once regularly, twice if I remember to! I have also started putting a skin conditioning oil with vitamin E on my incisions. Also, still wearing my sports bras (Under Armor Protege), and plan to for a while even though I'm approved for an underwire bra... I just want them to be as compressed and pushed together as possible while healing, and I do a relatively good job of hiding the sports bra under my clothes when I feel it's necessary. I've also spent over $200 on sports bras, so I'm wearing them out. I see Dr. Kim in less than a week for a follow up. This process has been very difficult on me, seems like one thing after another. I still can't brush my long hair out when I take a shower and someone also has to help me blow dry it. I have been at the gym, but I only work on legs. Also, I have developed a Mondor's Cord, under my left breast- the breast of doom- that has given me issues since surgery. It's my stubborn boob. Anyways! Here's some pictures. Not much has changed except some dropping and major shrinkage- which I am not happy about. I knew a few days after surgery they were smaller than I wanted and that was when they were still super swollen. The swelling continues to go down each week and more and more I am unhappy.