Areola Reduction and Periareolar Lift

As you can see, like many women I have a few moles that grow around the areola. Here are a few close up photos. The left side has more moles than the right side. The right side has two although one is much more faint. The left side has about 5 or so. It just happens. That's mother nature for you. I realize the lighting is different, but I had to move around trying different places in the house to try for photos. I took several photos in different rooms and just picked the two I felt most showed the moles. That's mother nature for you, nobody's perfect. They don't bother me in the least.

Hello R.S. world! Its been a while so I thought I would post a short update and provide some updated photos. Overall I am still glad I had the surgery ... no regrets at all. Of course time keeps passing and our bodies will continue changing. Here are a couple of update photos 2 years and 2 months later after the areola reduction surgery with Dr Steely. I highly recommend him. I hope everyone has happy holidays and happy New Year! Fa la la la la, La la la la!!!!!!!!!!

It's been quite a while and everything healed quite nicely. In total I wore the silicone gel sheet for 2 months. The scars are still fading and I know will take 1-2 years to fully mature. Posting some new pics for comparison. I do notice from the 38-day point to now, there has been some stretching out of the areola (which I always knew can happen), but it is still a vast improvement from how I started. Overall I am glad I did it. I would have liked them smaller, but they may result in a puckered scar with a starburst effect of the scar lines... which I definitely did not want a puckered look. My doc was honest and counseled against smaller to avoid a starburst/puckered scar and I'm grateful. I have the permanent gore-tex string sutured underneath the outer edge of the areola to help minimize stretching. I can feel it but it does not bother me. It also causes an occasional puffy look to the nipple within the circle, but if I press down with my palm it goes away. I suppose it's due to coldness causing some perking in the area. All-in-all, I'm very pleased and glad I did it, especially when looking at the original photo.