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You can alternate Ibuprofen with your pain medication. Also, muscle relaxers have been shown to help. You can also ask your surgeon to progress slower or take a week off now and then if you need a break. Obviously, I defer to the specific instructions of you surgeon. I'm sorry you are suffering. The good news is that it is temporary.
The only way to relieve the pain associated with breast tissue expanders is to slow the rate of expansion and use over the counter pain relievers. This will also result in a longer expansion period further delaying the completion of breast reconstruction. But everyone mst creed at their own rate.
It is quite common to have pain with the epxansion of the tissue expanders. I usually recommend tylenol to my patients.
It's interesting how pain and tissue expansion are related. Sometimes it is painful for a few days and sometimes not. Be sure and discuss this with your surgeon. Maybe you need more time between expansions or a smaller volume expansion. If you are developing capsular contracture that is resisting the expansion, you may need a surgical procedure before further expansion. Pain control otherwise can be obtained from various type of pain pills and sometimes cold packs will be of help. Doctors are interested in keeping their patients as comfortable as possible so please speak with your surgeon first. Too much pain may be a sign that too much pressure is being exerted against the ribs and that can actually deform the ribs, negating some of the benefits of the expansion.
Thank you for the question. It is very possible that you are experiencing a “normal post-op letdown"; it may take several months for the breast implants to fully “settle” and for you to see the final results of surgery. At that point, I would suggest that you not...
Yes it can. I would put silicone implants over the muscle. Looks like you have mild asymmetry and might use two different sizes. Implants cant go under the fascia -- that is not a real operation, they either are over the muscle or partially (dual plane) under. Most of my implants now are through...
The optimal distance from collar bone to nipple varies according to your height and chest width. Various ways to determine optimal nipple position include: 1. the aesthetic breast triangle...distance from sternal notch to L nipple, sternal notch to R nipple, and distance between...