Your Experiences of swelling

[JJ10]

To what extent have people experienced swelling post-op?

I was told by the surgeon that for the first week the swelling may be such that may chest may look bigger than what it before surgery.

Immediately after the surgery when i checked it out everything seemed quite flat, but I have to say that over the past couple of days my chest area seems to have gotten bigger. Is this entirely normal?

I'm not panicking about it, I'm just curious - I guess I have another 6 months to find out whether this is simply swelling!

[RRB]

Mine was concave when i took the bandages off and is now a bit swollen, the swelling seems to go up and down from day to day.  Remember also you have muscle under there, you want the muscle to show through and not have a perfectly flat chest if you know what i mean.

It is perfectly normal for your chest to get bigger, you have a lot of scar tissue healing going on.