Breast reduction from DD cup to B achievable?

Large breasts can restrict your lifestyle and cause a variety of medical problems. Even drastic weight loss won't result in more than negligible shrinkage. Breast reduction surgery removes excess breast tissue and reshapes the contour of the breasts so that they are smaller and perkier. I commonly use a... more

Requesting to go down to a B cup in someone with large breasts and with yor body habitus is probably not a good idea.  If you decied to lose weight, the breast will get smaller as well.  You will more than likely look out of proportion with the rest of yoru body. I try to get people down to a... more

Hi! 1)  I don't agree with some of the other answers about your weight.  You will be more comfortable after a breast reduction whether or not you lose weight, and I would recommend the surgery. 2)  Going from a DD to a B is easy.  But you might not want to be quite that small.  You... more

First of all, you should lose weight before surgery.  The risks go down and the cosmetic result goes up.  Secondly, the base width of your breast is probably too wide to ever fit into a B bra and this base width doesn't change with surgery.  Finally, to reduce you that much would probably... more

It is realistic for you to undergo a breast reduction, although it would be safer and you probably could obtain a better result if you first lost some weight.  With you current body surface area, you probably would need to be reduced to a C or B cup in order to have your insurance company to cover the... more

The general concern with being overly agressive with a breast reduction is the risk for compromising the blood or nerve supply to the nipple with the potential for tissue loss or numbness, respectively.