Hello everyone,
I'm a 23 year old guy from Finland, and I had my gyno surgery 3 months ago. I think I had quite a rare case of gyno because it was only on one side. The other side was perfectly fine and didn't need a surgery. The surgery was done by a plastic surgeon under the public healthcare, so it cost me only about 100€ ($110).
I was told that the surgery went fine, they found a large gland under the nipple. The surgeon said it was approximately half of his palm in size (I know that's a bit weird way to tell the size), he removed most of it, leaving just a little bit behind the nipple. After the surgery I had no pain, and the healing began well. My chest and nipple were both noticeably flatter and I was quite happy with the results.
I can't recall when, but after some weeks I noticed that my nipple had become puffier and larger, I didn't really worry about it too much by the time, because I thought that it's just a part of the healing process. I applied anti-scar gel twice a day and just waited for it to get better.
Now it's 3 months post-op, and no improvement can be seen. By trying the chest I can feel that there's a
huge amount of hard tissue under the cut, nearly all of it on the outer side of the nipple. Behind the nipple there seems to be not much of anything, so I'm guessing this is some heavy internal scarring? For the last 1.5 months I've been also massaging it regularly.
I'm seeing my plastic surgeon quite soon, so should I ask for cortisone-injections, or is it too early? I think what he's going to say is that "it will get better by time", but I don't think I'm really patient enough to wait. So I'm asking is there a lot of cases where the patient had bad results ~3 months post-op but then had miraculous healing after that? Is there really any hope that time will make it
significantly better? I included a photo of how my chest looks today, I think all of you can understand why I'm not happy with the result so far, just by looking at it.
Okay, all is not negative: the side that was operated of the chest is now quite a bit flatter than it was before. So I can finally wear a t-shirt without everyone noticing that the right side of my chest is significantly bigger. And also, there's no pain on the chest anymore when pressure is applied. Before the surgery holding the guitar against my chest caused me a lot of pain (strangely) or lying on the floor on my stomach. That was the main reason why I wanted the surgery.
Sorry for my bad english