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Is/are my nipple graft(s) failing, or is this normal healing? (photos)

MichTheFish
11 days post op from a double incision mastectomy with free nipple grafts (I'm FtM). Bolster dressing taken off 5 days post op, and have been using ointment with bacitracin and keeping gauze over the grafts per doctor's orders since then. Scheduled to get the stitches around the graft out mid next week. I am concerned about both of my grafts. Both nipples are very dark brown, much darker than they were naturally pre-op. The left side, a chunk of the areola is a fairly dark brown as well.

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