Almost 6 weeks post op. What do you guys think?

[Bob_Boob]

Just to update, I literally just came back from my 3rd post op appointment. PS says there is still a considerable amount of swelling on my left side (though I'm a bit skeptical about this), and that most of the tissue I feel is scar tissue. He says he won't know anything for sure though until everything settles down. I asked him about revision surgery, and he said he only performs revisions to about 10% of his patients, and that mine should eventually flatten out with time (although he did say revision is the worst case scenario, but that won't be until 9 months after the initial surgery). I'm scheduled for another appointment 6 weeks from now, which will make it 3 months after the actual surgery. I'll be sure to keep updating. Now it's time to diet and hit the gym hard.

[Bob_Boob]

Honestly-
IT LOOKS F**KING AMAZING BRO! Do you have any pre op pics? If I were you, I'd be skipping around eating Lucky Charms all day.

On a serious note, you look good man...I wouldn't sweat the small stuff.

Thanks for the compliments. I'm trying to stay positive about this, but it's hard being patient. Unfortunately, I don't have any pre op pictures, but it was much worse than what it looks like right now. Puffy nips are pretty much gone now though, so I'm happy about that.

[Keep_It_Moving]

No problem. I think your results look great and I hope you don't have to have revision surgery.

Best!

[Bob_Boob]

UPDATE: It has now been about 2 and a half months since surgery. Left side has gotten much flatter, but both still aren't quite where I want them to be. However, I am very optimistic about it since waiting seems to have paid off. It was very hard being patient at first, but I let it slip my mind for awhile, and now I really appreciate the results. I'll be having another post op appointment next week. I will post pictures then, but hopefully they'll continue to get even flatter.

[s00ntobe]

looking forward to seeing those pics, keep us updated!

[Bob_Boob]

UPDATE: Just had my post op appointment yesterday. It has now been almost 3 months since surgery. The PS said there is still some swelling but results are looking good. I should be seeing more final results around the 6-9 month mark. Took these pics yesterday to update.

[Bob_Boob]

Left side

[Bob_Boob]

Right side

[hammer]

I think you look great!

[Bob_Boob]

I think you look great!

Thanks!

[Keep_It_Moving]

Excellent results!

I'm happy for you man, truly.

All the best,
K

[Paa_Paw]

Most likely just fluid, Post operative swelling, and probably a bit of scar tissue as well. Six weeks is far too soon to be critical. It could take several months before you see the final contour of your chest. I too think you look very good.

[Poobs]

Hi. First time post here but been lurking for a while. I may be wrong here, but it looks to me like you do a fair amount of flat bench pressing and virtually nothing on incline because your lower pecs aren't too bad but near the clavicle there's almost no pectoral development.

I would try hitting the inclines HARD during your chest sessions for a few months. Like either do all your movements incline or if you want to do a bit of flat benching, do it last.

Personally whenever I train my chest I will do 3 or 4 incline movements and only one flat or decline movement. I virtually never do the flat press first.

I would give that a go for a while as well. If nothing else it will make your chest look a lot thicker up top and improve the overall look of it anyway.

[jay adams]

All I do is incline. I totally agree.

[Poobs]

May also be worth increasing volume for your chest overall, with a heavy incline focus. I don't know if you train muscles once a week, twice, three times, full body, 6 way split, 2 way split, whatever. Either way I would consider adding in more upper chest work either by adding volume when you do train it and lowering volume for everything else or if you don't train it more often than anything else add an extra day in for it and hit it more often, again reducing volume or frequency a little for everything else.

As an example if you trained full body three times a week with a chest, back, leg, shoulder, bi and tri exercise each time you may want to consider one time dropping the shoulder exercise, another drop the tri, another drop the bi and replace with a chest exercise.

If you train a muscle once a week split five ways you may want to consider instead of (for example) chest-back-shoulders-legs-arms something like chest-arms-back-chest-shoulders-legs. Your weights for tris and shoulder presses may take a hit initially training them the day after chest but they'll soon catch back up and I'm guessing getting your chest looking pukka is more of a priority than anything else.