To replace your breast implants, or even remove them, your surgeon may disrupt some of the nerve sensations in the superficial tissue around the plane in which your breast implants are positioned, under the skin or under the muscle. We expect your sensory nerves to regenerate over time. As they do, you may experience a variety of sensations that feel abnormal. Burning is one, tingling, numbness, and shooting pains are others. Your nipples may become hypersensitive or may feel somewhat desensitized for some time. These are all normal sensations that can be attributed to nerve regeneration.
As you heal from your breast implant exchange, you may also notice that one breast feels different than the other in terms of sensation. This is also normal. We often see more swelling in one breast than the other, more or less sensation, and even differing breast shape transformation from one side to the other. Within a few weeks, the two sides should begin to "catch up" with one another and settle into harmony in appearance and sensation.