I'm not sure why I went to the first plastic surgeon I consulted with for my breast augmentation. I guess I should have heeded the red flag when it appreared me signing his waiver seemed critically important. He had a nice base to start with so it should have been straight forward. I used to be a 34C before kids, after kids and pre-surgery I was a 34B, Dr Linderman gave me 34DD, way too big for me and frankly was embrassing to walk around. Soon after the capsule began to harden in the right breast. I went in to see him and he just told me to take 4000iu vitamin E per day and prescribed an asthma medication that I've read some Dr in Hawii used to treat capsular contracture. Needless to say he never took the 6-week photos, and just wanted to charge me to re-do the surgery. I know capsular contracture is a risk, but that's not all that happened. The left breast is almost fully deflated 4 years later. I have started to get other consults and so far and the one other Dr I have seen said it was odd that it slowly leaked. I guess if they fail they just deflate all at once. So here I am trying to figure out what I should do. I just don't feel I should have to keep paying for these Drs to experiment. I do have insurance on the implants, so I am wondering if Linderman is found at fault (the Dr has to send the old implants back to Inamed) if Inamed will go after Linderman (I did not pursue anything). Oh, and for the Dr I had a consult with yesterday, I won't be going to her either. She plans on just cutting the capsules and replacing the implants which is not recommened from what I am finding.
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