I had surgery 13 weeks ago - for a so-called 'minor-case' - excision and minor lipo-sculpting, with a well-respected and highly reccomended surgeon, with a great folio of surgical work, especially his gyne pictures.
Even from the first week post-op when I removed the vest for the first time (taking into account swelling and all), there was a slight assymetry which I hoped would resolve somewhat or at least stop bothering me.
Other than that everything was great and although I felt (for the first 4-5 weeks post-op) that I could have been left just slightly flatter, I felt my results were swimmingly great ,with totally flat small nipples,flattish chest wall,and I was trying on new shirts etc.
not perfectly what I expected , but a massive improvement that I could live with happily.
I began massage at 5 weeks post-op and did away with my compress.vest permanently after week6.
since then my results have just gone downhill and continued to worsen. every week they look worse, and despite massaging for 20min. twice daily every day, nothing has changed or improved. the chest area is bulky, the nips are very scarred and puffy, and the incisions are very red,raised and packed with scar tissue underneath. there are many areas of hardness in my chest, and the assymetry is blatantly obvious.
despite all this, there is still an improvement from my case pre-op, but if I was a 4/10 pre-op in terms of gyne severity, I am now about a 3-3.5. I was hoping to be a 0 (that being no gyne at all, and no puffy nips at all), or even with room for being pessimistic, a 1/10.
for the first few weeks after my op I felt like I was infact a fussy 0 with a slight complaint re:assymetry. Now that the swelling,brusing etc has gone and large amounts of scarring and hard tissue have developed I feel like I have just had a very slight improvement that almost makes the whole ordeal not having been worth it.
I will certainly need a revision, even just to get my results looking like they did at 1 month post, when I thought things would only improve from there - not worsen dramatically week by week. My chest is most definitely, both in terms of feeling (to the touch) and appearance, totally unacceptable, and is even worse when I flex.
I dont hold out any hopes for the next 6 months (at which point Ill be in the correct timeframe to have a second procedure,having let things settle for long enough), and its just all so depressing and dissapointing.
Unfortunately I have no pics to post, and my ps has my only hardcopy of the pre-op pics from 3 months ago.
Im not worse off from having the op (except now I have mutated nipples that were just puffy but normal before,but hopefully they can be revised fairly well and a lot less $$ in my pocket), but Im not that much improved, aside from a very slight reduction of the chest area.
the point of this thread is to soak up any advice or mutual experiences, from which I can draw strength and support.
[ps. massaging every day does not achieve anything other than wasting time,making my nips puff out worse an hour later, and leaving my chest sore and sensitive. thinking about maybe giving it up soon,especially if Im gonna have a revision anyway in several months time
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