I'm 4 weeks post op and one of my breasts looks like it has 2 halves. The stitches from the nipple down look too tight and causes a crease in my breast. It looked fine right after surgery but about 10 days ago I noticed it didn't look right. Doctor says they look tight and to massage with lotion 5 minutes a day 2x a day but I'm very concerned that will not help. Is this something that will correct itself or something I will have to fix later?
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Congenital symmastia are a difficult condition to treat. They can fixed by internal stitches to improve the results but it's advisable to go for these if you going for an implant based operation . quite often there is recurrence of the symmastia in post operative period. simple augmentation...
In my experience with hundreds of breast reductions, going from DD to C is possible. It is best to examine a patient in the office to confirm this. In our practice we offer two different breast reductions and the traditional reduction can take out much more breast tissue. Best wishes!!
At this stage you need to allow your body to heal. All you can do is maximize your body's healing potential by ensuring you eat a healthy diet (protein, vitamins etc) and that you don't do anything that will slow healing (smoking, excesive physical activity that disturbs the healing...
