My doctors recommended the surgery after finding out I had a pinched nerve in the c6/c7 area of my neck. My reduction was covered by my VA Medical Benefits, not Tricare. I was worried about the pain and healing process. It's June 17th and I'm feeling pretty good. I still can't drive for another week. I was prescribed pain pills and a muscle relaxer. I was able to control pain with 800mg Ibrofen. I have feeling in both nipples - this wa immediately noticeable after surgery. My surgery should have taken 2 hours, but it took 6 hours. I had to stay overnight. Removed 850 grams from right breast and 1100 grams from the left breast. There was a lot of swelling. Also my left hand was numb. It took about 5 days to get all feeling back....about as long as it took to get all the feeling back in my left breast. It's 14 days later and I still have quite a bit of swelling in my right breast. Drainage tubes were removed on June 16th. My armpit is still quite swollen. I can't see a difference yet. I will post photos tomorrow.
Updated on 2 Jul 2015:
Hi Ladies,
Well I found out its safe to wear deodorant under my armpit, no need for ice packs anymore....compression is they key now. So I'm wearing the ace bandage wrap over my sports bra for a minimum of 4 hours a day. I also try to wrap it so I get that swollen armpit in there too. I wish I would have taken just a photo of the armpit on the first day. It was huge....it's gone down a lot! I don't follow up with my surgeon for another 4 weeks. I'm driving now and I'm up moving around. No pain at all! Sometimes in the morning when I first get up....the pressure from the fluid build up hurts...but once I'm up and moving it's fine.