Its not a problem.
A mere 2 wks after surgery, you will only have the slightest idea of how your recovery will look months down the road.
If you are going to go and get a slab of meat taken out of your side, you will look cut. But, if at rest you look normal, then this is 100% good.
Don't kid yourself that you will walk out of surgery looking like magazine cover pectoral implants with a makeover in stylish clothes and babes hanging off your arm and that, somehow this is how it will go. Just laugh at that.
Man, you are coming out of a banal process with huge expectations where the nurses probably discuss amongst themselves that breast cancer patients are more in need of the same surgery. There are probably a lot of people along the way who just don't see the point. I disagree with that.
The doctor does. You do.
My post op looked exactly like gyne on the left side with and upward facing nipple, and on the right, a large sag of skin. It was terrible. Right after surgery, the swelling on the left was quite prominent and the doctor drew a large syringe of fluid from my nipple. It only "caved" on the top, but the swelling remained.
I went around feeling worse than ever, wondering if my disfigurement was permanent, whether the doctor made a mistake, and questioned whether I was justified in deciding to get this done. Only recently, has it decided to tighten of its own accord, and there are daily incremental improvements when I wake up. Of course, it is really wierd for a guy to be checking his boobs in the mirror every day for months and months.
Bear in mind for so minor an elective surgery, it requires a great deal of expertise and infrastruture. Also the body is formed in such a way to guide doctors to the best end results. But don't forget this is an invasive process. Noboby can "create" a chest for a man. Its a godsend to have professional expertise to get this done.
Aside from that, depending on how old you are, you have to deal with years of backbiting and damage to self-esteem which do not correct right away. Behaving in a certain way will take years to forget properly and a conscious effort to get over regrets. Put it behind you as best you can. The hard part is over. Recovery is in order. That is your responsibility.
I had my operation in August 2004 and only now it has begun to tighten up, 9 months later. Its a natural process, and you will feel when it begins to tighten by itself, and it will look better. It will take some time.
I lived for months with disfigurement due to surgery before things got better. I felt terrible, and worse of all, no one to confide in. There were even people on this board who could not relate or even suggested that disfigurement was my own fault and that I should not be self-conscious about having boobs.
A visit to the doctor helped, and will go for a final checkup once again on the anniversary of my surgery. Hopefully, my recovery will be "full blown" by then and I will not require any post op procedures.
Even though I figure I look kind of "cut" with a flex, that's fine.
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