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My breasts started bottoming out just 6 months after a $12,000 reduction.

They wanted $10,000 for another surgery. Here’s what I did instead.

When they told me I needed another $10,000 surgery after spending $12,000 already, I lost it.

I just stared at my surgeon, thinking,

You can’t be serious.

I thought I'd go through one surgery, heal, and get it over with.

My back pain would go away, and I’d never feel insecure again.

But a few months later, I was horrified when they started dropping out of nowhere.

The top looked emptier.

And they were settling toward the bottom again.

So, I obviously panicked and went to my surgeon.

There I was hearing words like:

Revision.

Another lift.

Internal bra.

I was pissed off, but if a second surgery fixed it forever, maybe I would suck it up and pay.

So, that night I went home and started searching for women who went through reduction revisions online.

I found SO many women facing exactly this.

The first woman I found

  1. 2019 Breast reduction
  2. 2021 Revision: extra skin removed + scars revised
  3. ~1 yr later Heavy at the bottom, empty on top, again
  4. Now Implants + internal bra? Or another lift?

The first woman I found had her reduction in 2019.

She did everything right. Wore support bras, slept on her back, skipped the gym, and didn't lift anything heavy.

But her breasts bottomed out afterward anyway. So in 2021 she went back under the knife and had extra skin removed AND her scars revised.

I thought

Okay… so the second surgery fixed it.

But it didn't.

A little over a year later, she said the bottom of her breasts was heavy again, the tops looked empty, and her nipples looked too high.

So she went back to her surgeon.

This time he suggested implants…

Plus an internal bra to hold everything up.

She got a second opinion.

That surgeon suggested implants too…

But with ANOTHER breast lift.

She already got 2 surgeries.

And now she was deciding what her THIRD breast surgery should be.

Then I found another woman who had paid $13,000 out of pocket for her reduction.

She still ended up somewhat bigger than she'd been promised. But she didn’t wanna spend another $10,000 getting a revision. So she left it.

A few months later?

They were bottoming out already.

Illustration: 2 weeks post-op vs. 6 months post-op.
Illustration: 2 weeks post-op vs. 6 months post-op.

I wasn't about to spend the next ten years becoming a repeat customer for breast surgery.

But nothing else was working.

So, one night I posted about it in a breast reduction group.

I asked:

MePosted in a breast reduction support group

Why are they dropping again already? Am I doing something wrong?

Most replies didn’t help.

Then one woman who had gone through exactly this explained something interesting.

Even with a great surgeon and great aftercare, many women see them bottom out in a few months.

That’s because some people's skin and tissue just have poorer elasticity.

A reduction can remove weight.

It can cut away loose skin.

But after you heal…

YOUR skin and connective tissue still have to hold that new shape.

If your skin has poor elasticity, it’ll bottom out.

And multiple revisions won’t help.

That's when I learned about elastin.

I'd heard about collagen a thousand times.

Everyone talks like it's the solution to everything skin-related.

But turns out there’s another protein in your dermal layer, like collagen.

Which actually is more important for the bottoming out.

Collagen

The scaffolding

Collagen is like the strong scaffolding inside skin. It helps tissue resist being pulled apart.

Elastin

The spring

Elastin is what helps tissue stretch… and then recoil back to where it started. Basically, the spring inside your skin.

The surgeon removed a huge amount of that weight around my chest, and tightened everything to give me this new shape.

But it couldn't replace the quality of the tissue itself.

If that remaining skin stretches easily and doesn't recoil well…

gravity will slowly pull everything downward again. No matter how many revisions or different procedures you do.

That was the first explanation that perfectly matched what I was experiencing.

They looked AMAZING right after surgery.

But they weren't holding that shape a few months later.

So, even if I got a revision, I could end up bottoming out.

For the first time, I stopped thinking only about how to physically push my breasts back up…

And started thinking about how to improve the elasticity of the skin holding them there.

That’s when I found marine elastin peptides. They’re made from fish skin and are supposed to improve skin elasticity.

At first I wasn’t convinced.

Because after the creams, collagen powders, and every other “firming” product I’d already wasted money on…

the LAST thing I wanted was another supplement making impossible promises.

But then I found an actual placebo-controlled human study on oral elastin peptides.

But I thought, even if it improves elastin, this isn’t going to work for me.

Because I’d heard everyone scream, “Nothing except surgery can lift your breasts.”

And technically, that’s true.

A supplement isn’t going to grab your breasts and physically move them three inches higher.

But I wasn't after that.

My breasts were high and tight right after the surgery.

But the problem started months after.

Think of your breast tissue like weight sitting inside a hammock.

The surgeon can shorten and tighten the hammock…

But if that material slowly stretches out again, the weight starts settling lower.

Same weight, same frame. The only difference is how much the fabric has stretched.
Same weight, same frame. The only difference is how much the fabric has stretched.

That’s what mine looked like.

More fullness at the bottom.

So I wasn’t trying to physically lift my breasts all over again.

I wanted the skin around them to stretch less.

I almost ordered the first marine elastin supplement I found on Amazon.

Then I found the catch.

Most brands don’t use high-quality elastin peptides.

What I kept finding

  • Some barely explained where their elastin came from. When that happens, it's usually from the driest parts of fish skin that had no elastin.
  • Some gave tiny amounts.
  • Some mixed it into a huge “beauty blend” where I couldn’t even tell how much elastin I was actually getting.

After everything I’d already tried, I didn’t want another mystery powder.

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I was still skeptical.

Because I had seen so many posts of women saying

Skin elasticity is mostly genetics. You can’t change it.

Genetics absolutely matter.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve it with supplements.

Glowadin also had a 60-day money-back guarantee.

So compared with spending thousands on another lift, RF treatment, or an “internal bra”…

trying two capsules a day for a fraction of the cost felt like a pretty small risk.

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If I noticed absolutely nothing, I could get my money back.

But since they only make a tiny batch every time and sell out fast, they were out of stock when I first looked.

I joined the waitlist, and a few weeks later, I finally got them.

Weeks 1–2

For the first couple of weeks?

Honestly, nothing much.

Month 1

It started feeling different

Then, sometime around the first month, the skin started feeling different when I grabbed it.

Less thin.

Less loose.

Almost like there was more resistance to it instead of it just folding between my fingers.

Week 6

I could see it

Then 6 weeks in, I started noticing it visually.

The skin across the top of my breasts didn't look as empty and crinkly.

When I leaned forward, I wasn't seeing as much of that loose, wrinkled skin hanging away from the breast.

And the lower part didn't look quite as soft and stretched out.

They looked more held together.

Less like the skin was slowly giving way underneath them.

Week 8

I stopped checking

After 8 weeks, I realized something else.

I wasn't checking them constantly anymore.

I stopped standing sideways in front of the mirror every morning trying to decide if they'd dropped another centimeter.

I stopped lifting them with my hands to remember what they looked like right after surgery.

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And for the first time since my reduction…

I started going braless around the house again.

At first just for an hour.

Then an afternoon.

Then I'd throw on one of those little tank tops I originally bought after surgery without immediately reaching for a sports bra underneath it.

That sounds like such a tiny thing.

But that was literally one of the reasons I got the reduction in the first place.

I wanted to stop thinking about my boobs every time I got dressed.

And slowly…

I was.

I finally felt like my skin’s elasticity could support my breasts and wasn't constantly reminding me that I need another surgery.

So, if your breasts bottomed out just months after a reduction, please don’t go in for a revision or different new procedures.

Without fixing your elasticity, you’ll just be a repeat customer for your surgeon.

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