Size and second-guessing
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Choosing a size, then spending the early weeks doubting it.
Size is the decision people agonise over longest before surgery, and then, cruelly, keep agonising over afterwards, because for the first couple of months the result you're looking at isn't the result you'll keep. The threads in this section are mostly written from inside that window.
- Surgeon keeps saying "base width" and "profile" when I ask about cc. How did your surgeon actually size you? started by LaurenP83, Jun 19, 20265 repliesLaurenP83 Jul 5, 2026
- 3 weeks post op and I already wish I'd gone bigger. Please tell me this feeling is normal started by EmmaLouise31, Feb 15, 20264 repliesEmmaLouise31 May 30, 2026
The early-weeks pattern, named
If this section has one message, it's that doubting your size in the first weeks is close to universal, in both directions. Implants sit high and tight at first, swelling exaggerates some dimensions and hides others, and the settled shape takes months to arrive. Readers who begged for a bigger size at week three and readers who panicked they'd gone too far describe, at month four, mostly the same thing: it changed, and the feeling passed.
That's also why the regulars here repeat the same advice: judge nothing before roughly the three-month mark, and make any conversation about revision with your surgeon, after things have genuinely settled, not with a forum at 2am. The site's guides on how to choose an implant size and what results really look like over time explain what's happening week by week and why the early view misleads.
Worth saying plainly: none of this is a promise that every doubt dissolves. Some people do end up wanting a change, and that path exists. But the threads below suggest most of the early panic is the timeline talking, not the size.