Will Getting A Breast Reduction Relieve Back Pain?

One of the reasons to get a breast reduction is to improve the symptoms created by excessively heavy breasts. This includes shoulder and back pain as well as neck pain. Most women who seek breast reduction do so for functional rather than cosmetic reasons.

Based on your description of body type and breast size, you may be an excellent candidate for breast reduction surgery. Whether or not your symptoms related to a specific anatomic problems such as spinal stenosis will improve is doubtful.

Your “spine doctor” will likely be able to give you a better idea of whether breast reduction surgery will be helpful in your case.

 Best wishes.

It sounds like you have a fairly small frame and very large breasts.  Therefore, it is likely that insurance would cover the operation, but all insurance companies have their own criteria.

A breast reduction would likely help alleviate any upper back, neck, or shoulder pain that you may have.  Your spinal stenosis may be causing you to have leg pain, and it is unlikely that a breast reduction would help with that discomfort.

Meet with a board certified plastic surgeon to find out more!