DIEP-FLAP for one breast (my plastic surgeon later did a breast lift on the other side to match). It was super intense - 8 hours under and 4 days in the hospital with hourly blood vessel checks. (I'm at UCLA and a lot of residents came in, too, to check out the work).

Coming out of it I regretted it - the extra time to recover and an additional 3 month lifting restriction were awful. Plus, no one told me it's basically gastro-bypass surgery so I was eating large meals and really hurting myself because the food had no where to go.

But now that I am a year out and I know to eat smaller meals, I am sooo glad I went the hard route.

My plastic surgeon had a graph as part of his intro meeting with us which should the quality of life/happiness levels of all the different surgeries. A year or two out everyone is happy, but 5/10/15 years down the road the paths diverge. Diep flap recipients were the happiest, which was a big reason we went with it, especially given my age.