4 weeks pregnant with breast reduction surgery scheduled for three days from now: Can I still go through with it?

Hello and thanks for your question.With regard to how much weight to lose, you need to consult with a nutritionist.Plastic Surgeons are trained at, and skilled at, working out solutions for your breast size, but they cannot predict the best weight for you, or how much weight loss will come off...

It would be unusual for your to have pain 3 months after reduction surgery. Most patients find this surgery to be quite easy to recover from and very few have any discomfort after 3 months. It would also be unusual to have muscle soreness after a breast reduction because most surgeons are not...

Your procedures are commonly done at the same time under the same anesthetic.  But if you were dong them separately and was in my office, I would have no problems proceeding a week later... once it was clear that you did not have any complications from the liposuction.

Such questions because if anything occurs because of this, your surgeon 'owns' it.  But my patients are allowed to start low impact (aka no bounce) exercises soon after surgery and with a great sport bra, could start impact activities shortly thereafter.  The superficial open wound...

Is not considered mucus in my experience but perhaps your surgeon was simply trying to illustrate what the material was like.  Wounds often do separate after reductions and will grow bacteria when cultured.  Red along the edges of the wound is normal too.  But spreading redness,...

Please express yourself to your surgeon.  If you wish to be smaller, convey that wish.  While there is a limit to making someone too small due to anatomic limitations, your desires are what we surgeons wish to meet. Revisions for volume reduction are sometimes done with...