Is It Normal to Have Scars This Bad 11 Months Post Op? Why Are my Nipples Flat Now? (photo)

You have hypertrophic scars along the bottom and it sounds like you may also have them around the areolas. It doesn't look as bad in the vertical scar. This is the result of either your body's healing, or bad surgery. Do you have any other scars on your body? How did they heal? Regardless, at this point I think the best solution would be to have surgical scar revision (maybe not by the original surgeon), and plan on aggressively treating the scars post op with silicone gel sheeting or steroid tape. if it begins to recur in spite of this I would promptly start laser treatments. Do you have sensation in the nipples? If not, this might be why they are flat.

You have a major problem. Without knowing the details it is impossible to know if that is just the way you healed, the way surgery was done or both. You will need surgery to fix this but just cutting out the scars will not help. The removal of additional tissues will just stretch the nipple areolar complexes even more and widen the breast fold scar more as well. You may have to go to smaller breast implants. You need to be very careful in choosing your surgeon for revision. If they promise you too much you will be better off going elsewhere.

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The pctures show what are known as hypertrophic scars, which could be either from the way you heal, skin flaps too tight, or some other event during the early healing phase. Scars generally fade, flatten, and soften for up to a year, but when they are widened like yours they would probably benefit from a revision surgery. Since you are almost a year out, it is an appropriate time to consider it. if it starts to recur then laser treatments or injections could help but would not be ideal treatments at this stage.

Thank you for the question and pictures.

Based on your description and pictures  think you will benefit from scar revision surgery. Depending on your physical examination some improvement   in the nipples'   situation may also be achieved. The use of silicone sheeting and/or steroid injection may be helpful postoperatively.

I hope this helps.

Your scars appear to be hypertrophic and spread.  Sometimes this happens with tension on closure during a breast augmentation and lift.  A scar revision may be helpful.