Hi,
First of all thanks for making and maintaining this thread! I have read it start to finish maybe 6 times now.
How many days post OP did you start your prayers? Do you think the movement involved caused fluid in the chest area?
From what Mr Levick told me the glue blood stuff he uses to stick the skin to the chest wall is to help stop swelling so he doest need to use drains anymore.
Wouldnt this mean if the bond between the skin and the chest wall is broken by exercise that would allow space for fluid build up? If fluid build up happens our body cannot sort this out untill the nodes? have regrown.
The weightloss is great, but wouldnt it be better for a healing body to have enough fuel to power rebuilding? If your body is having to use stored energy to survive then it is possibly hindering your recovery?
You shouldnt be disheartened, your still recovering!
Before the operation, Did you ever do flat or decline chest press? You are rather developed top side, almost as if you only ever done incline presses.
My big day is this Wednesday, alot of thoughts running around in my head.
Hey nice to hear from you, and glad my posts have been informative for you.
Prayers started a week or so after operation. It was for maybe couple of hours a day, mainly standing so wasnt too strenuous. Plus since I was lounging about most of the day, it was actually good I got a bit of movement in me, the booklet from Mr Levick's office recommends to get some walking in, even in the first week. I dont think this affected the fluid build up, as even afterwards fluid kept building up. Mr Levick mentioned he thinks its a 'summer thing' but cant pinpoint why exactly.
Re glue - good point. I did actually bring this up when I had to go in for my second or third aspiration. I asked Mr Levick whether all this fluid build up would mean that I would have loose skin, as surely this had disrupted the glue. He just very confidently said no, as he had done when I had asked him before surgery about the possibility of loose skin. Both times he simply said with my level of gynecomastia I simply wont have any loose skin. I guess thats just from his thousands of operations worth of experience, and it was very reassuring for me to hear that. (Note - he categorised my gynaecomastia as being 'marked' from three different levels 1. Minor/puffy nipples 2. Marked 3. Severe)
Weightloss - I've not gone on a drastic calorie deficiency or anything. I've simply cut out all the junk from my diet. Believe it or not I've gone over 2 months now with no fried food, sugar or fizzy drinks. The drinks part was the hardest for me, and the fried food too, but I've gotten rid of all my cravings. But I still have my 3-4 meals a day plus protein shakes, its just healthier food thats all. Due to a couple of injuries and some other reasons, I had become quite overweight at the time of surgery (around 14st8), now I'm down to 12.11 so I'm not underweight by any means. In fact I feel a lot more energetic than when I was overweight, when I constantly felt lethargic and out of breath.
My weight training - my chest training has always been flat bench press, incline bench press and dumbbell flyes. I've randomly hit the decline press, but the first three have been my bread and butter, and if anything flat bench press has always taken priority over incline. But I know what you mean, looking at my recent pictures it does look as if my upper chest is disproportionately bigger. I was never to know this, as if you look at the pictures on the first page, there was gland and fat covering the middle and lower part of the chest. Having said that, perhaps in the last 12 months or so I did prioritise incline bench press (I still did flat bench, but I did incline first in the workout) as I had wrongly read somewhere that working your upper chest would get rid of the saggy chest. Now that I'm getting towards seeing what my real chest looks like, I will make some amendments to my regime.
Good luck for Wednesday, its natural to feel apprehension, my biggest fear was not waking up from surgery especially as the total number of people knowing I had surgery came to a sum total of zero. I thought what a shame it would be to my family knowing their son had gone out in a manboob operation! But that didnt happen of course and it's not going to happen to you either. Feel free to make your own thread or post any concerns you have in this one, more than happy to answer any concerns you may have.
Topic: Surgery Mr Levick (25/06/14) ONE YEAR UPDATE (including 'gym' pics) (Read 34217 times)
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