Is there upkeep or follow up if you get a breast reduction?!
Question: My breast are different cup sizes, and I know people say that is normal, but one is a C and the other is like a D and a 1/2 and I think that is quite a drastic difference.
I'm very ashamed of it, and very self conscious. My hubby says he doesn't even notice but I get embarrased even when he sees me with my shirt off sometimes. When just him and I arm home I won't even wear a shirt without a bra because I'm self conscious about how obviously different sized my breast are.
I think I would feel so much better if I could get an operation to make the bigger one match the smaller one but I really don't want to if I have to keep following up with it (I don't mean initially to make sure everything is okay - I mean like you have to go in every couple years with breast implants.) I'm hoping not since they aren't adding anything.
I know it may not seem important or shallow, but its something I can't seem to get over.
Also, does it effect breast feeding in the future? Thanks.
Answers: My breast are different cup sizes, and I know people say that is normal, but one is a C and the other is like a D and a 1/2 and I think that is quite a drastic difference.
I'm very ashamed of it, and very self conscious. My hubby says he doesn't even notice but I get embarrased even when he sees me with my shirt off sometimes. When just him and I arm home I won't even wear a shirt without a bra because I'm self conscious about how obviously different sized my breast are.
I think I would feel so much better if I could get an operation to make the bigger one match the smaller one but I really don't want to if I have to keep following up with it (I don't mean initially to make sure everything is okay - I mean like you have to go in every couple years with breast implants.) I'm hoping not since they aren't adding anything.
I know it may not seem important or shallow, but its something I can't seem to get over.
Also, does it effect breast feeding in the future? Thanks.
It isn't shallow at all.
I had a breast reduction when I was about 22, so almost 9 years ago now...
While the doctors want you to come back in for follow up after the initial visit, you don't have to. I never did. When you get your annuals from your OB they make sure everything is okay in that area anyways. You have the mammogram beforehand and then they send the tissue off to a lab to be checked and thats really it. You go back in for two post op visits..one to take the drainage tubes out and another one later.
Since you are self conscious about what you have now, I would suggest that you do a search online and look at before and after pics..and keep in mind that the doctors are only putting the very least amount of scar tissue cases up for show.
I have ALOT of scarring, to the point that I will someday have another surgery to get some of it fixed. I am not sure if it is normal or if I just didn't heal as well as some women do. MY areolas are crooked. Some of the butterfly tape used to close me off came off earlier than it needed to and that caused scarring, and also there was some amoung of minor infection that didn't help either.
If you take a long time for a cut to heal and you generally have a red mark there for a while after, your scarring will be like that too.
I had a daughter 17 months ago, and I breastfed a bit...not much came in. They don't discriminate the tissue when they cut it out, so you won't know how much mammory glands you have to make milk until you have a baby.
If you are thinking about having kids soon, I would wait until after you have them to get the surgery done if you want to breastfeed...because let me tell you...I either need a lift or another reduction. If you want to breastfeed, you might as well wait. If you decide to have the surgery, I would honestly recommend that you request that pill you can take to stop your milk from coming in...because it will come in the breast that hadn't had the surgery even more...and you will be back to the same issue before the surgery.
All in all knowing what I know now about the surgery and the extensive scarring I have, the breastfeeding debacle, etc..I would still have had the surgery. It was worth it.
Dont slap god against the face keep them the same make the other BIGGER!!!!
I totally understand. While mine aren't that drastically different, I get it.
You don't have to go for any followup as you described (every couple of years). The only way you would is if you developed complications due to the reduction, or if you gained lots of weight and needed to get it re-done (which my aunt did).
You can breastfeed after a reduction, however lactation itself may not be as easy if you were to remain as you are now. There's a wonderful site you can visit in the source.
In any case, good luck!