Is 2weeks Enought Time to Recover Before Going Back to Teaching After Breast Enlargement?

Generally, I advise patients that they can start doing more intense physical activity at 3 weeks, and upper body strength exercises at 6 weeks after surgery. If you don't lift heavy things in your job or things like that, then you can probably return to work in a week or two if your recovery is going well and your job is sedentary. However, you should ask your surgeon as they may have different guidelines.  

For the type of work you do, two weeks recovery should've more than enough, but always get the final approval from your plastic surgeon. At two weeks, for my patients, the only restriction would be heavy lifting, working out, or sexual activity, for which you would have to wait three to four weeks.

Hi pinkicedcupcake-

Regardless of breast implant type, or breast pocket placement above or below the muscle, your recovery time should be less than 2 weeks.  With use of numbing medicine right before your procedure, and given through a pain pump for several days after your procedure, you should be able to get back to teaching within 1 week, and probably less. 

 

The ability to have pain medicine dispensed under your skin, right in the area of surgery, really helps you to feel less pain and recover much more quickly from a breast augmentation.  Make sure to ask your plastic surgeon about these "tweaks" which help with pain relief!

 

Best Wishes,

Roy