Do you make your patients stop hormone replacement therapy before and after breast lift surgery?

but stopping it can decrease risks for deep venous thrombosis.  In my practice, I do not ask my patients to stop and rather encourage early and frequent ambulation and the use of compression stockings in surgery and in my 20+ year history, have not had a documented (now I sound like Hilliary) venous thrombosis as many do go undetected and without consequences.  You can discuss with your surgeon and if adamant about allowing you to continue HRT, you can always find a surgeon that will not require this of you.

If you always take hormones, I prefer that you stay at your norm. Quitting hormones can change and shrink your breast size, then your breast are changed to a different size off the hormones, then the breasts change to the wrong size after you start taking them again? Sounds like a bad idea to me. Always have surgery at your standard size doing your standard stuff for best results!!!!

Some hormones can increase the risk of blood clots. I think that is what the surgeon was worried about. I would not ask you to stop taking hormones but I would expect you to take certain precautions to prevent (as much as possible) formation of blood clots.