I’m only having issues with my L breast. I seems to sit little higher on the chest wall and hasn’t fully “dropped.” I’ve noticed a slant on the medial side of the L breast right. I’m feeling tightness in my breast fold when I do certain stretches. It still isn’t comfortable to lie on my stomach. My L breast just still feels like a foreign object. The breast is still soft, but why am I feeling tightness in my beast fold. Please help! Thanks! (Periareolar incisions)
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At 6 weeks you are about 35 percent settled, shaped, softened, dropped and fluffed. "Drop and fluff" refers to the fact that as the skin stretches and the muscles relax, the implants move down and out slowly – about 1 percent a day. It’ll be about six weeks before they even begin to settle down,...
At 4 days post op you would have fatigued your body too much given the situation that you are still healing from surgery. A schedule for an appointment is never a bad idea. You should always follow up with your surgeon to prevent any complications.
There are a few plastic surgeons (some are my good friends) who advocate for and perform "subfascial" breast augmentation routinely. In my experience doing both cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery, the pectoralis fascia is often thin and hard to elevate off the muscle while keeping it...