Yep, lets do that.

yirara

Drains: they're probably pulled before I get home. If they stay longer then my gp (totally an alley) has said he wants to pull them. 😅 But yeah, I have some ideas about clothing, and I got a drain bottle holder (kind of like a belt) for free. We'll see. And hair washing... I have short hair, and worst case I won't be washing them for a bit longer. It'll work out somehow. And worst case: I'm very flexible. I'm sure I'll find a way to do this.

PAV8888

Best of luck w/the surgery... and good healing!!!

springlering62

Mine was just a reduction, but I thought I knew better than the doctor when I was “ready”. This was still in my obese days, and “ready” simply meant my morning stretch. I didn’t do anything more challenging than that in those days.

I burst almost all the stitches and reheating was a *kitten*. It took months.

Breast tissue is as thin as Kleenex tissue and about as sturdy when wet and oozing. (TMI!!!)

Be smarter than me. Pay attention to everything your doctor tells you and follow through.

BTW I absolutely hated the “before” and “after” photos. Supposedly my identifying features were cropped out but to this day I have the heebie jeebies about that. I wasn’t given the option to refuse. I don’t know if it was for malpractice sake, or for his website, but I suspect the latter.

Much success to you, little pain, and may you achieve all you hoped for and more.

yirara

@springlering62 wait, they put before/after photos of you on their website?!? That's totally not a thing here. Surgeons don't put up photos at all, and only share with people during a consult if you consent to it. I didn't, thus nobody will see my chesticles 😅 But yeah, I went to see 4 different surgeons and then decided on the most popular here in this country for gender affirming chest things.

AnnPT77

springlering62 wrote: »

Mine was just a reduction, but I thought I knew better than the doctor when I was “ready”. This was still in my obese days, and “ready” simply meant my morning stretch. I didn’t do anything more challenging than that in those days.

I burst almost all the stitches and reheating was a *kitten*. It took months.

Breast tissue is as thin as Kleenex tissue and about as sturdy when wet and oozing. (TMI!!!)

Be smarter than me. Pay attention to everything your doctor tells you and follow through.

BTW I absolutely hated the “before” and “after” photos. Supposedly my identifying features were cropped out but to this day I have the heebie jeebies about that. I wasn’t given the option to refuse. I dyon’t know if it was for malpractice sake, or for his website, but I suspect the latter.

Much success to you, little pain, and may you achieve all you hoped for and more.

Total removal is a substantially easier surgery (for the patient) than lumpectomy, so I'm guessing it's substantially easier than reduction, too. With removing some breast tissue (but not all) the weight of the remaining breast is a complicating factor during healing. With the full removal, there's no breast tissue left to conspire with gravity to stretch out incisions, or bounce around with movement.

Nonetheless, I absolutely endorse your recommendation not to exceed doctor guidance about when it's OK to do normal stuff.

yirara

Oh yeah, totally agree with listening to doctor. I love working out and I know I won't be able to do anything for 6 weeks. I also won't be able to carry more than 5kg for a while and already bought a trolley for groceries. The supermarket is just around the corner, thus no problem. What causes me most worries is my letterbox, which is at head height, with the lock too high up. No idea yet.

AnnPT77

AnnPT77 wrote: »

springlering62 wrote: »

Mine was just a reduction, but I thought I knew better than the doctor when I was “ready”. This was still in my obese days, and “ready” simply meant my morning stretch. I didn’t do anything more challenging than that in those days.

I burst almost all the stitches and reheating was a *kitten*. It took months.

Breast tissue is as thin as Kleenex tissue and about as sturdy when wet and oozing. (TMI!!!)

Be smarter than me. Pay attention to everything your doctor tells you and follow through.

BTW I absolutely hated the “before” and “after” photos. Supposedly my identifying features were cropped out but to this day I have the heebie jeebies about that. I wasn’t given the option to refuse. I dyon’t know if it was for malpractice sake, or for his website, but I suspect the latter.

Much success to you, little pain, and may you achieve all you hoped for and more.

Total removal is a substantially easier surgery (for the patient) than lumpectomy, so I'm guessing it's substantially easier than reduction, too. With removing some breast tissue (but not all) the weight of the remaining breast is a complicating factor during healing. With the full removal, there's no breast tissue left to conspire with gravity to stretch out incisions, or bounce aroun d with movement.

Nonetheless, I absolutely endorse your recommendation not to exceed doctor guidance about when it's OK to do normal stuff.

Rereading this, I feel like I should clarify: When I say "easier surgery for the patient", I mean to be talking about only the purely physical aspects of healing and recovery. Believe me, I know that the emotional and psychological aspects of these surgeries are many, and the experiences for any given individual in that respect will be . . . well, close to unique to that individual.

I'd expect Yirara's purely physical experience with surgery/healing to have some similarities to mine, but our reasons for having the surgeries are wildly, extremely different . . . of course!

yirara

AnnPT77 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

springlering62 wrote: »

Mine was just a reduction, but I thought I knew better than the doctor when I was “ready”. This was still in my obese days, and “ready” simply meant my morning stretch. I didn’t do anything more challenging than that in those days.

I burst almost all the stitches and reheating was a *kitten*. It took months.

Breast tissue is as thin as Kleenex tissue and about as sturdy when wet and oozing. (TMI!!!)

Be smarter than me. Pay attention to everything your doctor tells you and follow through.

BTW I absolutely hated the “before” and “after” photos. Supposedly my identifying features were cropped out but to this day I have the heebie jeebies about that. I wasn’t given the option to refuse. I dyon’t know if it was for malpractice sake, or for his website, but I suspect the latter.

Much success to you, little pain, and may you achieve all you hoped for and more.

Total removal is a substantially easier surgery (for the patient) than lumpectomy, so I'm guessing it's substantially easier than reduction, too. With removing some breast tissue (but not all) the weight of the remaining breast is a complicating factor during healing. With the full removal, there's no breast tissue left to conspire with gravity to stretch out incisions, or bounce aroun d with movement.

Nonetheless, I absolutely endorse your recommendation not to exceed doctor guidance about when it's OK to do normal stuff.

I'd expect Yirara's purely physical experience with surgery/healing to have some similarities to mine, but our reasons for having the surgeries are wildly, extremely different . . . of course!

Yes, I think so. I don't know anyone personally who had to have their breasts removed due to health reasons. I was super happy when I had a second shoulder surgery because I was confident I'll be better thereafter, but losing a bodypart one probably identifies with can be hard I imagine. ❤️ For me, I hope I'll experience euphoria, but there's still the risk that I won't love it in the end, despite wanting this (without knowing mostly it was an option) for over 30 years 😅 But I'm confident that I adapt to most situations, thus I'm not too worried. ❤️