Looking for some help.. two years after first gyno operation.

[Scotti93]

So to get to the point, I have just turned 20 years old and I had my Gynocomastia surgery in January 2012. It is nearly 2 years on from when I had my first procedure and I'm still unhappy with my chest.

It's been a struggle to wait and persuade my Surgeon to do any revision surgery, as I had been waiting for about a year and a half going back and forth to the surgery to be told that I'm still healing and being given pointless Cortisone injections that never seemed to do anything.

Finally, today, (see the left side, sorry about the blood) my surgeon has cut out the bits of breast tissue that were remaining. It wasn't as easy as that, though - I actually had some lipo around 3 months ago in the same area, BUT it seemingly missed all of the excess tissue (I was effectively opened up and bruised for no reason - lipo is pretty harsh!). So I waited and waited for my left side to be fixed as it was the biggest problem at the time (sorry that I don't have pics) so I didn't really complain TOO much about my right side.

However, now my left side has been done (two 50p piece sizes of tissue pulled out!) I am seriously getting annoyed by my right side  that my surgeon has told me he doesn't want to touch! I have no idea what this lump is. He said it was tissue memory from where the breast tissue was?! I don't know if I believe that.

Any ideas of what's going on here? it's incredibly frustrating, especially as my surgeon has said if it's removed, there will be an indent left in my chest. I can see no definition in my chest whatsoever and when I tense up.. I just look deformed. Help?





The lump that I am holding above, I THINK, pushes down on my skin that surrounds my nipple and makes it impossible to show any definition. When I tense up or even sit down it shows up. After a pump from the gym, the lump also pushes out further.

[Dr. Elliot Jacobs]

It has been nearly two years since your surgery, but you also mention some additional lipo recently and then very recently some additional surgery.  It is difficult to piece together what you have going on.

However, to be clear, only your surgeon knows how much breast tissue he removed from under the nipples at your initial surgery.  Some docs leave some gland deliberately and some remove virtually all of it.  There is no right or wrong in this case.

What is important is how flat you were after your initial surgery and healing.  If you always had some tissue under the nipples, then perhaps not enough was removed.  If you were initially flat and then developed some excess tissue under the nipples, then it is quite likely scar tissue, and the cortisone injections would be useful.  All this assumes you have not taken any anabolic steroids in the intervening time frame.

What to do?  Have a heart to heart talk with your surgeon.  Also, consider a second opinion from another surgeon, preferably an expert in gyne surgery.

Good luck!

Dr Jacobs

[Paa_Paw]

Your chest appears to be shaved or waxed. Either way, removal of the chest hair makes the torso appear more feminine.

If you want to look more masculine, simply allow your body hair to grow out.